Ferdinand Hiller: Symphonies (vol.2)

[Ilja]

Ilja, are you perhaps referring to the 1833 Symphony in F minor, which has actually been recorded earlier in this series by Griffiths?

https://app.idagio.com/albums/ferdinand-hiller-symphony-op-67-and-symphony-in-f-minor

Hi, I was referring to this work, which I don't remember seeing in a performance yet. But considering the potential for further confusion, I might be wrong entirely.

[Gareth Vaughan]

That is the E minor (not F minor) symphony recorded in the disk that has just been released. CPO have used the numbers from Gehlmann's Hiller Worklist. the University of Frankfurt Library catalogues their autograph copy as Hs. 87 and Gehlmann makes this clear in his entry:

Symphonie a grand orchestre, e-Moll. HW 2.4.3
Allegro molto vivace; Andante scherzando; Alla Marcia. Allegro non troppo; Chant des Pirates. Allegro
con fuoco. ♦ Quellen: Revue musicale, 1831, S. 348a; ,,Symphonie ä grand orchestre"; Konzert
am 4. Dez. 1831 in Paris, ,,grande salle du Conservatoire"; vgl. F.-J. Fetis: Revue musicale, 1831,
S. 353b. Ihl, Bd. 1, S. 408f. ♦ Komp.: Pa[ss]y, Septembre 31, Chant des Pirates: 5. Fevrier 1831 (Autograph
datiert). ♦ Autogr.: Univ. Frankf. a. M.s Sign.: Mus Hs 87. ♦ Anm.: Kompositionstagebuch,
Dez. 1830; Hinweis darauf, dass Hiller den Chant des Pirates umgeschrieben habe. Kompositionstagebuch,
Sept. 1831: ,,Allegro dazu umgearbeitet, Andante umgeschrieben."

[Ilja]

Ehm yes, I was talking about the E minor because that was the one that was listed on the CD cover... 

[Justin]