1. Sinfonie Karel Husa

Bindung: Broschur
ISMN: 979-0-001-13164-3
Kompositionsjahr: 1953
Orchesterbesetzung: Picc. · 2 · 2 · Engl. Hr. · 2 · Bassklar. · 2 · Kfg. - 4 · 3 · 3 · 1 - P.S. (2 Beck. · 2 Tamt. · kl. Tr. · gr. Tr. mit Beck. · Xyl.) (3 Spieler) - 2 Hfn. (2. ad lib.) · Klav. - Str.
Reihe: Musik unserer Zeit
Seitenzahl: 99
Spieldauer: 28'0"
Uraufführung : 4. März 1953 Brüssel · Brussels Radio Symphony Orchestra · Dirigent: Daniel Sternfeld
Verlag: Schott Music

I. Adagio misterioso - Allegro assai
II. Grave
III. Poco più vivo. Con moto. Maestoso

The first Symphony is a work of exceptional quality, not only "given its date of composition" (it was written in 1951 and thus belongs to the composer's early works) but in itself. Though traces of Bartok and Honegger can be heard (as the liner notes point out), Husa's language is more advanced and daring than both. It is a knotty, highly dramatic piece, rising to heights of tremendous and breathtaking power such as Hindemith has attained in the best of his symphonic pieces, and the composer's taste for new sonorities and instrumental combinations is already much in evidence, making sound like a full-blooded concerto for orchestra.