KARL WEIGL
Capriccio C5385
DEUTSCHE STAATSPHILHARMONIE RHEINLAND-PFALZ
JÜRGEN BRUNS
UPC: 845221053851
SYMPHONY NO. 4 IN F MINOR (1936)
SYMPHONY NO. 6 IN A MINOR (1947)
In terms of style, with his works linked to basic tonalities Weigl drew on the
sound realm of late Romanticism, from whose aesthetics he never departed in
favour of more progressive contemporary trends. Whereas Weigl’s Symphony No. 1,
written in 1908, associatively evokes the mood of a composer thinking of new
territory and inquiring into the future, the dissimilar pair of his Symphonies
Nos. 4 and 6 shows the musician’s intellect at historically distinctive periods,
allowing an assessment to be made as to whether what could be expected, intended
and hoped for at the time of his early works was achieved or whether it
developed in an entirely different manner. The background to Symphony No. 4 in
1936 was the emergence of dictatorial Austro-Fascism. Symphony No. 6 of 1947 is
in a certain sense a continuation and a conclusion following the end of the Nazi
terror and a war that did not remain without profound changes and far-reaching
effects for almost all the countries in the world.