Fantastic Intermezzo
Full title | Fantastic Intermezzo for orchestra op. 18 / Phantastisches Intermezzo für Orchester op. 18 | |
Date composed | 1921 | |
Details |
Composition completed 8 October 1921; originally titled Phantastisches Zwischenspiel. The work, inspired by Heinrich Heine's poem Frühlingsfeier (which is also the basis for Weigl's 1909 work of that name for women's chorus and orchestra), was conceived, and served, as the fourth movement of the original five-movement version of Symphony No. 2. Orchestration: 3(3rd alt. Picc.),3(3rd alt. E.H.),3(3rd alt. B.Cl.),3(3rd alt. C.Bn.)/4,3,3,1/Timp, Perc./Cel.,Hp./Str. Performance duration: ca. 15 min. |
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Manuscript sources | NYPL JOB 73-156, holograph full score (91 pages), here still titled Phantastisches Zwischenspiel, with composer's note at end: Wien, 8. X. 1921. See also NYPL JPB 99-7 no. 89, copyist's full score (129 pages) and copy of Heine poem. | |
Publication details | B. Schott's Söhne, 1924. | |
Availabiity | Score and parts available from FCP. | |
Recordings | Berlin Radio Symphonie Orchester, cond. Thomas Sanderling (CD: BIS CD-1077; 2001). | |
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Fantastic Intermezzo |
18 January 1925*** | Krefeld: Krefeld Städtisches Orchester, cond. Rudolf Siegel; concert repeated on 19 January 1925. |
15 January 1926 | Königsberg: Königsberg Orchester, cond. Ernst Kunwald. |
16 February 1930 | Vienna, Großer Musikvereinssaal, Philharmonische Konzerte; Fantastic Intermezzo op. 18, with Wiener Philharmonisches Orchester, cond. Wilhelm Furtwängler. Also on program: Max Reger, Variations and Fugue for orchestra op. 132; Brahms, Symphony No. 2. |
January 1931 | Dortmund, Dortmund Städtisches Orchester; cond. Wilhelm Sieben. |
12 July 1981 | Aspen, Colorado: Aspen Festival Orchestra, cond. Luis Herrera de la Fuente. |
15 June 2013 | Noordwijk, Netherlands, the Oude Jeroenskerk: Fantastic Intermezzo, performed by the Symfonieorkest De Philharmonie, cond. Daan Admiraal. Also on the program: Zemlinsky, Sinfonietta op. 23; and Brahms, Symphonie No. 3. |
16 June 2013 | Amsterdam, Netherlands, Beurs van Berlage, Yakult Zaal: Fantastic Intermezzo, performed by the Symfonieorkest De Philharmonie, cond. Daan Admiraal. Also on the program: Zemlinsky, Sinfonietta op. 23; and Brahms, Symphonie No. 3 (see http://dephilharmonie.nl). |