Hausegger Barbarossa & 3 Hymnen

Started by Alan Howe, Tuesday 20 June 2017, 08:09

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FBerwald

You could be right - CPO seems to have recorded all extant orchestral works, unless someone has unearthed a lost manuscript, e.g. the Frühlingssymphonie.

Alan Howe

To return to the music, specifically Barbarossa - I'm afraid I really do think it's a lot of huffing and puffing about very little. The idiom seems to me essentially Wagner+ and the thematic material, while sumptuously garbed, is pretty undistinguished. I was hoping for better.

Alan Howe

...actually Hausegger seems to me to be closer to the idiom of, say, Strauss' Macbeth than to the later, more mature Strauss.