Hersch, Michael - Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 / Fracta / Arraché - Alsop, Marin (conductor)

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Championed by distinguished conductors such as Marin Alsop and Mariss Jansons, since his mid-20s, Michael Hersch’s music has been performed by leading orchestras and concert artists. Winner of the prestigious Berlin Prize and the Rome Prize for composition, he has been described as a “new hope of American musical culture” by the Berliner Morgenpost, and a composer of “phenomenal musical ability” by the Financial Times. Hersch’s music, which ranges across vast and often anguished soundscapes, has a searing yet breath-taking effect. If Symphony No. 1 shows a young composer influenced by Mahler and Berg, Symphony No. 2 represents a more innovative and complex style. Fracta and Arraché are two harrowing and intense shorter pieces illustrative of Hersch’s most recent work. All works here receive their world première recording.

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Marin Alsop



Michael Hersch

Symphony No. 2

1. I. Prestissimo

2. II. Adagio

3. III. Largo

4. IV. Moderato



5. Fracta

6. Symphony No. 1

7. Arrache