Fritz Brun(1878-1959): a Catalogue of the Orchestral music

[adriano]

Thanks very much, Alan and LateRomantic75 

[Sharkkb8]

Looks like the aforementioned Brun PC is now available!   

http://www.guildmusic.com/shop/wbc.php?sid=456551aba58f&tpl=produktdetail.html&pid=16019&rid=261&recno=4

Gregory

[sdtom]

If one is going to start to listen to Brun where does one begin?
Tom

[adriano]

A reminder: on Fritz Brun, there is an article on my homepage:
http://www.adrianomusic.com/resources/Fritz-Brun-Project.pdf
In this case, one could listen the Symphonies chronologically - they get increasingly more difficult - and become more conciliatory towards the end. The two Concertos are rather late Romantic.
This autumn I have finished recording all of Brun's orchestral music works, including the three orchestrated Schoeck songs.
And here three promotional videos (in Geman, but there is more music than text):
https://vimeo.com/142860891
https://vimeo.com/141051073
https://vimeo.com/143711085

[sdtom]

I downloaded the first symphony this morning and will likely spend much of the day listening to it as I'm quite pleased with it. Amazon for some reason doesn't have the cover art and the liner notes included in the price.  Is there a place I can go to that will have this information available? Guild doesn't seem to have it either. Any help would be appreciated.

[mjkFendrich]

I downloaded the first symphony this morning and will likely spend much of the day listening to it as I'm quite pleased with it. Amazon for some reason doesn't have the cover art and the liner notes included in the price.  Is there a place I can go to that will have this information available? Guild doesn't seem to have it either. Any help would be appreciated.

The booklet can be downloaded from The Classical Shop here
http://www.theclassicalshop.net/Details.aspx?CatalogueNumber=GM%207395

[sdtom]

Thanks mjk to the link to the classical shop. I'm still somewhat old school as I like to make a CD, a jewel case with artwork, and then store it that way. As I suspected there were superb liner notes from Adriano that enhances the listening experience further.

[adriano]

Hi sdtom and infinite thanks for your interest and compliments!
Just send me your e-mail address and I can send you missing artwork and liner notes to all of my 49 CDs :-)

[adriano]

Hi everybody :-)

Just to tell you that my CD with Brun's Eight Symphony is on the way of being released:
http://www.guildmusic.com/shop/wbc.php?sid=555070ddcf5&tpl=produktdetail.html&pid=17127&rid=261&recno=2

A promotional video can be seen here:
https://vimeo.com/143711085

This is a "more accessible Symphony" and quite an exciting and tempered affair, greatly orchestrated.

[Alan Howe]

It's on order already!

[adriano]

Thanks very much, Alan 
Incidentally, since my booklet notes are "too long", they will, in the future, cut inside photos and song texts with translations. The latter can be downloaded from Guild's homepage.
For this reason, I have set up a "director's cut" booklet version in PDF format. Anyone interested in this, can order it from me after giving me an e-mail address to where I can send this PDF by wetransfer.

[Alan Howe]

Great, thanks.

[sdtom]

this is very good news about the eighth symphony.

[Alan Howe]

Symphony No.8 (on Guild) arrived today from Switzerland and good stuff it is too. The most immediately obvious thing about it is that, although it remains a demanding listen (like most of Brun's music), the idiom is less dense and 'knotty', as befits a work in the sunny key of A major. I have the suspicion that this expansive 54-minute piece may turn out to be be the composer's masterpiece in the form. It certainly proves that the great symphonic tradition was not played out in 1942!

I am profoundly grateful to Adriano for his gritty determination to put Brun on the musical map and for his expertise in recording this complex music in such excellent performances. This time it is the players of the Bratislava Symphony Orchestra whom we must praise for their stalwart work. An important release!

[adriano]

Oh, infinite thanks, Alan 
You received the CD even before I got this honour, I am still awaiting my copies...
Brun's Eight Symphony is indeed a masterpiece, I consider it one of the most impetuous and important Swiss Symphonies of the 20th century, besides Honegger's Second and Third.
The Bratislava Orchestra adored the piece, although it is difficult to play...