# | Track | Duration | |
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1. | My Husband and I: Overture: Allegro furioso | 5:37 | |
2. | Boogie | 10:42 | |
3. | I. And thus was man created: Monumentale | 12:24 | |
4. | II. Ode to Love: Animato | 7:50 | |
5. | III. Humoresque: Of Laughter: Rubato | 5:31 | |
6. | IV. Of Weeping (Lament): Pesante | 13:25 | |
7. | V. And new life blooms from the ruins (Epilogue): Andante con passione | 18:12 | |
73:40 |
Added on Wednesday, March 09, 2022
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.