Emánuel Moór - Symphony No.5

[Reverie]

Here is my realisation of Emánuel Moór's 5th symphony in A minor, Op.53B (1901)

The work is unpublished and obviously unperformed.

The movements are as follows:

1. Allegro moderato (Maestoso)

2. Adagio

3. Scherzo - presto

4. Allegro moderato

The last page has this note after the final bar: Hotel Fürstenhof, Frankfurt 10th January 1901


LINK:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMZ-oD9OLPk

[Alan Howe]

Marvellous, Martin! All work on Moór's music is to be very warmly welcomed. Please excuse my minor adjustment to the spelling of the composer's name.

[Gareth Vaughan]

Many thanks indeed for this work, Martin. I enjoyed your realisation very much. It is an accomplished work, though not IMHO a particularly distinguished one. It has some attractive orchestration, but is short on memorable melodic content. Nevertheless, as I said, a most enjoyable listen - and I have a feeling my initial impression may improve on further hearings. I am extremely grateful to have been given, through you, an opportunity to hear this symphony. As Alan says, all work on Moor's music is always exceedingly welcome.

[Alan Howe]

As usual with Moór's music there's a lot 'going on', which I find fascinating. I echo Gareth's comments about the ultimate memorability of the material, but then I'm only on my first listen and I'm sure more will be revealed on subsequent auditions. My suspicion is that Moór's style became more austere with time, but that may just be a feature of this symphony.

Just to recap, these are the composer's symphonies:

No.1 in E minor, no opus no. (1893) - MS
No.2 in C major 'In Memoriam Ludwig Kossuth', no opus no. (1895) - Simrock
No.3 in D minor, Op.44B (1895) - pub. Rozsavölgyi
No.4 in B flat, no opus no. (1898) - Schmid
No.5 in A minor, Op.53B (1901) - unpub.
No.6 in E minor, Op.65 (1906) - pub. Siegel
No.7 in C major, Op.67 (1906) - pub. Siegel
Pensées Symphoniques, Op.75 (1908) - pub. Mathot
No.8 in A minor, Op.92 (1910) - unpub.

[eschiss1]

Opening is promising, will hear the whole thing hopefully this evening- looking forward to it. Is anyone willing to make mp3s available, does Rêverie have issues with that though? What he does have is my thanks as a fan...