Sinfonia Varsovia; Ian Hobson - Richard Stohr: Orchestral Music, Vol. 2

This second volume of the orchestral music of the Austro-American composer Richard Stohr (1874n1967) reveals further marvels: the first of his two suites for string orchestra encases a moving slow movement between a charming prelude and an elegant fugue; and the four imposing spans of the expansive First Symphony offer grandeur and heartfelt profundity n as well as irresistibly catchy tunes that will set the foot tapping. Stohr writes in a musical language somewhere between Bruckner, Mahler and his exact Viennese contemporary Franz Schmidt n but it is a voice increasingly readily recognised as his own.