Felix Woyrsch

[Rainolf]

The first printed edition of Felix Woyrsch's Symphony No. 6 "Sinfonia sacra" is now available:

https://www.albismusic.de/notenshop/orchestermusik/6.-symphonie-op.77/

Albis Music has published the first editions of Woyrsch's Symphony No. 4 and his Violin Concerto before.

[Ilja]

Albis Music had a synthetic version (NotePerformer) of this work up on their YouTube channel for a while, but it seems to have been taken down since, unfortunately.


The first movement of the Violin Concerto (or Skaldische Rapsodie) is still there, however (if you can withstand NotePerformer's less-than-stellar rendering of the solo violin), as is Woyrsch's Sanctus, Op. 73, a work for chorus and orchestra roughly contemporary with the Sixth Symphony and written in the last years of the composer's long life.


The symphony and Sanctus continue the trend already visible in the D major Fifth Symphony towards more compact forms: the symphony lasts just under twenty minutes in the synthetic version, and Sanctus takes just over five, but both are rich, expressive works. I'm looking forward to a performance.


Does anyone know whether the early B flat symphony of 1884 has been preserved somewhere?