Conductor Christoph Schlüren wrote to me to say that he performed (and recorded) Scherber's Third Symphony on December 1st in Barcelona - with the Orquestra Sinfonica Camera Musicae from Catalunia. This will be issued on CD soon. The audio I have received reveal an absolutely excellent and thrilling performance of this difficult work.
Great news!
Adriano,
Any idea what label to keep an eye out for - some (such as VERSO, who seem to issue quite a lot of romantic spanish/catalan music)) don't seem to get listed by Presto et al in their New Releases listings, so it is very easy to miss such recordings).
Best wishes
Richard
As far as the label of this recording is concerned, I am not being informed (yet).
Here's a link to the webpage about the concert:
https://www.orquestracameramusicae.com/en/programs/3rd-symphony-martin-scherber/
The work has been recorded before, of course:
https://www.amazon.com/Scherber-Symphony-No-3-Martin/dp/B00005LAHK/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=scherber&qid=1576148159&s=music&sr=1-1 (https://www.amazon.com/Scherber-Symphony-No-3-Martin/dp/B00005LAHK/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=scherber&qid=1576148159&s=music&sr=1-1)
... and that's not a bad performance at all.
Ilja's right. But it seems to be deleted, so it'll be good to have the new recording.
Mind you, this 53+ minute symphony isn't for faint hearts. If I were to characterise it, I'd say the idiom was basically Bruckner, but that the continual repetition of Brucknerian figures reminds me of the compositional processes of Philip Glass - which is OK if you like Glass, but for much of the time you're waiting for something to happen. And, frankly, not a lot does...
I still have 5 copies of the "old" recording of Scherber's 3rd in my "stock" :-)
I'll wait for Christoph Schlüren's performance to appear...
Have read a number of his booklet notes - wasn't sure if I'd heard his conducting (ah, Schwarz-Schillings' symphony, fairly sure I have heard that recording. Check!)
I rather like Brucknerian methods of approach, one finds them in a small but select number of 20th-century composers (middle-period Wellesz - symphonies 1 & 2 for example (early symphonies but middle of his total output)- is far more Brucknerian than Mahlerian, to the point where his 2nd symphony opens with a sort-of-quote of the finale ostinato of Bruckner's 4th, but in other ways too.)
Yes, the 1st symphony sounds to me like barely disguised Bruckner (but none the worse for it).
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV467tgLqOc&list=OLAK5uy_lKxf6EbAfqEv-MZcFV52lJmTIPIzh-i5Y (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV467tgLqOc&list=OLAK5uy_lKxf6EbAfqEv-MZcFV52lJmTIPIzh-i5Y) )
I can't find any sound bites of the 3rd.
One must have the will and patience to searc, semloh :-)
Here are "sound bites" of the older recording:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc_hj6Nsnhk
And Scherber has also a website:
http://www.martin-scherber.de/scherber-dritte-sinfonie.html
Just to advise that I still have also some left-over copies of the CD with Scherber's Second Symphony...