Hans Gál

Hans Gál: The Four Symphonies

Orchestra of the Swan

Kenneth Woods

Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 30: I. Moderato

Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 30: II. Burleske

Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 30: III. Elegie

Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 30: IV. Rondo

Symphony No. 2 in F Major, Op. 53: I. Introduction: Andante – Adagio

Symphony No. 2 in F Major, Op. 53: II. Allegro energico – Molto moderato

Symphony No. 2 in F Major, Op. 53: III. Adagio

Symphony No. 2 in F Major, Op. 53: IV. Allegro moderato ma agitato

Symphony No. 3 in A Major, Op. 62: I. Andantino – Allegro vigoroso e passionato

Symphony No. 3 in A Major, Op. 62: II. Andante tranquillo e placido

Symphony No. 3 in A Major, Op. 62: III. Allegro molto moderato

David le Page

Symphony No. 4 (Sinfonia concertante), Op. 105: I. Improvvisazione - Molto moderato – Allegro moderato

Symphony No. 4 (Sinfonia concertante), Op. 105: II. Scherzo leggiero - Vivace ma non presto

Symphony No. 4 (Sinfonia concertante), Op. 105: III. Duetto - Adagio

Symphony No. 4 (Sinfonia concertante), Op. 105: IV. Buffoneria - Allegro molto vivace

Magdalena Tchórzewska

Katarzyna Wasiak

Hans Gál: Works for Viola & Piano

Christian Immler

Helmut Deutsch

Hermann Hesse

Growing up in Vienna, with its great Lied tradition, Hans Gál had written about 100 songs before leaving secondary school. He later destroyed them, along with all his other works composed prior to 1910, but between 1910 and 1921 he wrote many more. Except for the five songs of Op. 33, these were never published, and Gál himself would later refer to them as ‘laid aside’. Many of these songs were publicly performed at the time, however, often with the composer at the piano. Through the initiative of Christian Immler and Helmut Deutsch, 26 of the ‘laid-aside’ songs are now being made available to a modern audience. A labor of love for the performers, the project has had the support of the composer’s family – in fact the recording was produced by Hans Gál’s grandson, Simon Fox-Gál. The songs provide a missing link in Gál’s creative development, and show him engaging with a wide variety of poets, extending back from the twelfth-century (Walther von der Vogelweide) to contemporaries, such as Hermann Hesse and Richard Dehmel, by way of the classics (Heine, Mörike). Reflecting a taste for the exotic which was fashionable at the time, the selection also includes settings of poems by Rabindranath Tagore. The performers close their recital with the Op. 33 set, the only songs that Hans Gál did publish during his long career.

Hans Gál: The Four Symphonies

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