Karl Amadeus Hartmann: 6. Symphonie (2005)

Karl Amadeus Hartmann: 6. Symphonie für grosses Orchester (1953) is a volume in Deutsche Grammophon's Musik...Sprache der Welt series. It features legendary Hungarian conductor Ferenc Fricsay and the RIAS-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin in German "new music" of the immediate postwar period, music that would be marginalized with the rise of the Darmstadt Festival and its emphasis on "international serialism" in the later 1950s. What Karl Amadeus Hartmann: 6. Symphonie für grosses Orchester (1953) makes clear is that Germany ... Read More

Karl Amadeus Hartmann: 6. Symphonie für grosses Orchester (1953) is a volume in Deutsche Grammophon's Musik...Sprache der Welt series. It features legendary Hungarian conductor Ferenc Fricsay and the RIAS-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin in German "new music" of the immediate postwar period, music that would be marginalized with the rise of the Darmstadt Festival and its emphasis on "international serialism" in the later 1950s. What Karl Amadeus Hartmann: 6. Symphonie für grosses Orchester (1953) makes clear is that Germany sacrificed some of her own musical identity in the process of fostering the unification of both domestic and foreign composers under the banner of serialism.Karl Amadeus Hartmann's Symphony No. 6 is regarded as the greatest of his nine, and the first movement speaks volumes about the plight of ordinary German citizens of the early '50s. Reviled by the world, consumed by hatred of Hitler, and coming to the overwhelming realization of having committed, and lost, the better part of a... Read Less