Spoliansky: Orchestral Music Liepāja Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann

• Mischa Spoliansky (1898 – 1985): Overture (From "My Husband and I"):
• 1 Spoliansky: Overture (From "My Husband and I") 05:37
• Boogie
• 2 Spoliansky: Boogie 10:42
• Symphony in Five Movements:
• 3 Spoliansky: Symphony in Five Movements: I. And Thus Man Was Created 12:24
• 4 Spoliansky: Symphony in Five Movements: II. Ode to Love 07:50
• 5 Spoliansky: Symphony in Five Movements: III. Humoresque 05:31
• 6 Spoliansky: Symphony in Five Movements: IV. Of Weeping 13:25
• 7 Spoliansky: Symphony in Five Movements: V. And New Life Blooms from the Ruins 18:12
• Total Runtime 01:13:41

Info for Spoliansky: Orchestral Music

The Russian-born Mischa Spoliansky (1898—1985) became one of the major names in cabaret in 1920s Berlin and then, as a refugee from Nazi Germany, in London, he became one of the best-known composers of film scores. He also wrote a handful of orchestral works, which have remained unknown until now. His Boogie is a witty, tongue-in-cheek piece of orchestral jazz, and the Overture to My Husband and I, one of his stage shows, has a Mozartian sparkle and wit. But it is his only Symphony, an epic statement composed over a period of nearly three decades, that constitutes his real achievement as an orchestral composer – the fourth of its five movements apparently offering Spoliansky’s own musical commentary on the Holocaust.

Liepāja Symphony Orchestra
Paul Mann, conductor

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