Ernst Toch was one of the top modern composers in Berlin until Hitler came to power, prompting his ultimate escape to the United States and Los Angeles, where he spent the last 30 years of his life. Prepossessed by the modernist "wisdom" that the symphony was dead, Toch avoided writing anything in the symphonic genre until a health crisis in the late '40s forced him to rethink his goals. In the last 14 years of his life, Toch produced seven full-length symphonies, of which the Symphony No. 3 garnered the Pulitzer Prize. ...
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Ernst Toch was one of the top modern composers in Berlin until Hitler came to power, prompting his ultimate escape to the United States and Los Angeles, where he spent the last 30 years of his life. Prepossessed by the modernist "wisdom" that the symphony was dead, Toch avoided writing anything in the symphonic genre until a health crisis in the late '40s forced him to rethink his goals. In the last 14 years of his life, Toch produced seven full-length symphonies, of which the Symphony No. 3 garnered the Pulitzer Prize. Until the CPO series instituted by conductor Alun Francis with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin in 1995, only the Symphony No. 3 had garnered a recording, that for Capitol by Leopold Stokowski and the Stokowski Symphony Orchestra. Between 1995 and 2002, Francis patiently parceled out three individual discs containing the entire cycle, combined in CPO's three-disc set Ernst Toch: Complete Symphonies.Ernst Toch's cycle of seven symphonies are among the most compelling, original, and...
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