Rott: Symphony No. 1 (with works by Mahler & Bruckner)
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HANS ROTT
Rott: Symphony No. 1 (with works by Mahler & Bruckner)
Bamberger Symphoniker, Jakub Hrůša
[ Deutsche Grammophon / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 11 November 2022
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"Who is Hans Rott?" Gustav Mahler gives the meaningful answer: the "founder of the new symphony as I understand it." Deutsche Grammophon now presents a new recording of Hans Rott's Symphony No. 1. Full of energy and depth and with a breathtakingly velvety sound, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra plays under its chief conductor Jakub Hrůša. This is an impressive recording of a composer whose rediscovery in recent years has continued to thrill audiences and enrich our knowledge of late Romantic music.
Hans Rott wrote his first symphony, his most important work - full of groundbreaking musical ideas and a unique vision of how the symphony might develop - from 1878-1880, at a time when his younger classmate Mahler was just getting started and his mentor Bruckner was struggling through his middle period. Jakub Hrůša places this masterpiece alongside works by Mahler and Bruckner, shedding new light on a work that deserves to be at the center of the symphonic repertoire.
"The warmth and swagger of this account with the Bamberg Symphoniker entirely suits an imperfect but adorable work that combines echoes of Bruckner, Brahms, and the symphonies Mahler hadn't yet written with the preposterous exuberance of soundtracks from Hollywood's Golden Age...there seems something particularly Czech in the way Hrusa keeps the music bubbling along." The Times
Tracks:
Rott: Symphony in E Major
Mahler: Blumine (original 2nd movement of Symphony No. 1)
Bruckner: Symphonisches Präludium, WAB deest
