Fritz Brun – Cello Concerto, Choral Works, Five Songs

The music of the greatly-significant Swiss composer and conductor Fritz Brun has, in recent years, begun to take its rightful place as the legacy of one of the country’s greatest composers of the 20th-century, thanks in large part to the outstanding series of recordings of his major orchestral works, together with a selection of his vocal concert music, on the Guild label. In this series, it is the fine interpretative quality of the conducting of Adriano that has played such an important role in this rehabilitation, and on this new release, we have Brun’s magnificent Cello Concerto of 1947, together with a selection of his major vocal concert works. We are fortunate to have secured the services of the fine cellist Claudius Herrmannn, who gives a definitive performance of Brun’s Cello Concerto, and the beautifully modulated also voice of Bernadett Fodor, together with the Bratislava Symphony Chorus and Orchestra. A release of major importance in Swiss music.