Fritz Brun: Symphony No. 4; Rhapsody for Orchestra / Moscow Symphony Orchestra; Adriano, conductor

Fritz Brun, composer

Fritz Brun (18 August 1878 – 29 November 1959) was a Swiss conductor and composer of classical music.

Brun was born in Lucerne. He was a student of Franz Wüllner at the conservatory at Cologne, and studied piano and theory there until 1902. The following year he became a piano teacher at the music school in Bern. From 1909 until 1943, he led the symphony concerts of the Bernischen Musikgesellschaft, and was conductor of the choral society and lieder group there. From 1926 to 1940, additionally, he was the vice-president of the Swiss music society Tonkünstlerverein. In June 1941 Brun retired, except for occasional returns to conducting. He dedicated his first violin sonata to violinist Adele Bloesch-Stöcker.

In 1912 Brun married Hanna Rosenmund, and three children were born to their marriage. He died in Grosshöchstetten.

His compositions include ten symphonies, of which a complete series is in progress (as of 2012) on the Guild Music CD label.

Source: Wikipedia

Adriano, conductor

Swiss-born conductor-composer Adriano lives in Zurich. As a musician he is mostly self-taught. In the late 1970s he established himself as a specialist on Ottorino Respighi and he has conducted many other recordings of obscure or neglected symphonic repertoire. He also initiated and recorded a series of fifteen CDs mainly of European film music composers, and created and directed a series of classical music videos. All of his recording projects (47 in total) have found wide recognition and his commitment is uncompromising.

In Adriano’s opinion, music history should be revised to show that it is not just the story of the so-called great composers, and that it should not be neatly classified into traditions and categories. Much more good music has been written than certain musicologists and critics would care to admit. Adriano’s compositions include Concertinos (with string orchestra) for celesta, for harpsichord and for Ondes Martenot; a Concertino for piano, strings and percussion, Obscure Saraband for organ, tubular bells, timpani and strings and a clarinet quintet entitled Thoughts and Associations.

Source: Naxos Bio

Moscow Symphony Orchestra

The Moscow Symphony Orchestra was established in 1989. During the following years the orchestra not only survived the period of economic difficulties, but strengthened its position and became one of the top Russian orchestras. Since 1996, the MSO has performed an annual series of concerts in the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. Famous Russian and foreign conductors of the orchestra include Vladimir Ziva, Sergey Stadler and Arnold Katz, and it has performed with outstanding soloists such as Yuri Bashmet, Victor Tretyakov, Vadim Repin, Alexander Knyazev and Alexander Rudin. Apart from its educational work and its extensive concert programmes the orchestra has been widely acclaimed for its outstanding recordings, with over a hundred since 1994, principally for Naxos and Marco Polo. International awards for its recordings include CD of the month by the American magazine CD Review, the prestigious French Diapason dʼOr and the Chairmanʼs Choice at the Cannes Classical Awards. The orchestra has toured in the United States, Japan, South Korea and Western Europe. Its chief conductor and artistic director is Arthur Arnold.

Source: Naxos Bio