5th Symphony (Kochan)

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The Symphony no. 5 is a symphony of Günter Kochan (1930-2009). It was composed between 1985 and 1987 and was premiered on November 13, 1987 in Berlin . The work has a playing time of approximately 22 minutes.

Orchestral line-up

Piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, 1: xylophone, cymbals, tam-tam, snare drum, 3 gongs, percussion, 2 : bass drum, wooden drum, cymbals, 3 toms, strings (heavily occupied).

sentences

The symphony consists of four movements.

analysis

The musicologist Hansjürgen Schaefer described the symphony in the music magazine Musik und Gesellschaft as typically Kochanisch: "The most concentrated work with the material in the sense of classical thematic structures and their development, continuation and contrasting, polyphonic structures, the rhythmic as the piercing driving force of tonal processes."

premiere

The work was premiered in 1987 by the Berlin Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Claus Peter Flor , who had also directed the 4th Symphony two years earlier, in the reopened Konzerthaus Berlin . It represented a temporary high point of his symphonic work.

Recordings

  • Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Claus Peter Flor, 1987.

literature

  • Hansjürgen Schaefer : With seriousness and awareness of conflict. Günter Kochan: Symphony No. 5 . In: Musik und Gesellschaft 38 (1988), p. 375.
  • Wilhelm Buschkötter, Hansjürgen Schaefer: Handbook of international concert literature. Instrumental and vocal music [Manual of international concert literature] . 2nd revised and expanded edition, de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1996, ISBN 3-11-013905-7 , p. 476.