Richard Flury: Orchestral Music, Vol. 2 Alexandre Dubach, Liepāja Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann

• Richard Flury (1896 - 1967): 5 Orchestral Pieces from "Der Scholle treu" (Orch. E. Favre):
• 1 Flury: 5 Orchestral Pieces from "Der Scholle treu" (Orch. E. Favre): No. 1, Festlicher Marsch 04:58
• 2 Flury: 5 Orchestral Pieces from "Der Scholle treu" (Orch. E. Favre): No. 2, Walzer 03:17
• 3 Flury: 5 Orchestral Pieces from "Der Scholle treu" (Orch. E. Favre): No. 3, Intermezzo I. Allegro molto 01:28
• 4 Flury: 5 Orchestral Pieces from "Der Scholle treu" (Orch. E. Favre): No. 4, Intermezzo II. Andante sostenuto 05:20
• 5 Flury: 5 Orchestral Pieces from "Der Scholle treu" (Orch. E. Favre): No. 5, Polonaise. Allegro moderato 02:14
• 4 Caprices for Violin & Orchestra:
• 6 Flury: 4 Caprices for Violin & Orchestra: No. 1, Allegro agitato 04:31
• 7 Flury: 4 Caprices for Violin & Orchestra: No. 3, Polka 03:38
• 8 Flury: 4 Caprices for Violin & Orchestra: No. 2, Prestissimo 01:51
• 9 Flury: 4 Caprices for Violin & Orchestra: No. 4, Vivace 06:02
• Richard Flury:
• 10 Flury: Andante sostenuto (Orch. U.J. Flury) 05:21
• Concerto for Violin & Orchestra No. 3:
• 11 Flury: Concerto for Violin & Orchestra No. 3: I. Allegro moderato, quasi recitativo - Allegro molto 14:30
• 12 Flury: Concerto for Violin & Orchestra No. 3: II. Andante 05:37
• 13 Flury: Concerto for Violin & Orchestra No. 3: III. Presto 05:56
• Total Runtime 01:04:43

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This second volume of orchestral music by the Swiss composer Richard Flury (1896–1967) brings works from across his career. A suite drawn from an early Festspiel – a community pageant – opens with a march of Elgarian swagger and continues with a mix of charm and substance. Flury was a gifted violinist, and his Third Violin Concerto, written at the height of the Second World War, is virtuosic and lyrical in equal measure, its unashamed Romanticism perhaps an escape from troubled times. The four late Caprices for violin and orchestra form a concertante serenade in all but name; and one of his very last pieces was a dark and moving tribute to a musician friend, the slow movement of a suite he did not live to finish.

Alexandre Dubach, violin (tracks 6-9, 11-13)
Liepāja Symphony Orchestra
Paul Mann, conductor

Alexandre Dubach
born in 1954 in Thun, began to study the violin under Elisabeth Schöni at the age of seven. Within two years he had won the Concours National of the 1964 Expo in Lausanne, which was followed by appearances on television and radio around Switzerland. He proceeded to study under Salvatore Accardo, Nicolas Chumanchenco, Magda Lavanchy, Ulrich Lehmann, Yehudi Menuhin, Nathan Milstein and Eva Zurbrügg. At fifteen, he gave his debut performance of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with Armin Jordan and the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, where he returned frequently as soloist and, from 1981 to 1985, also as leader.

At the age of sixteen he won the Migros study prize and completed his studies at the Conservatoire in Fribourg summa cum laude. His talent was recognised in international competitions, including those in Freiburg, Garnsbach, Naples, Senigallia, Sion, Vercelli and Vienna, where he won first prizes; he also won the coveted Premio Rodolfo Lipizer in Gorizia. The town of Thun (in 2000) and the Bernese Oberland (in 2015) awarded him their prizes for culture.

In 2007 he performed the Swiss national premiere of Paganini’s Third Violin Concerto. His Claves recording of all six Paganini Violin Concertos, with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, has generated much enthusiasm, including a listing in Joachim Hartnack’s Grosse Geiger unserer Zeit (‘Great Violinists of our Time’; Atlantis, Zurich, 1983). Alexandre Dubach, who has also made a number of arrangements for violin and written his own cadenzas, has taught in Castel del Monte, Zurich (in the master-classes of Arthur Grumiaux and Nathan Milstein), Delémont and Sion, and he is also in much demand as a teacher in eastern Europe.

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