Klenau Symphony No. 9 is a very fine new release!

[relm1]

I just finished listening to this new release of Paul von Klenau's choral Symphony No. 9:
http://www.dacapo-records.dk/en/recording-paul-von-klenau-symphony-no-9.aspx

I found this an excellent and substantial work.  I hadn't heard any of this composers works before but must seek out more.  The music reminded me of Franz Schmidt's Symphonies and Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln (The Book with Seven Seals).  There is a heavy Germanic quality to it even though it is from a Danish composer.  But if you like Schmidt, Hindemith, Bruckner you'll enjoy this too.  It's a very fine large scale premiere of a lost World War II era work that was only rediscovered in 2001.

[The new erato]

I like it too. Derivative maybe, but still very good. The other disc available from Denmark of Klenau symphonies is also fine.

[vandermolen]

I recently bought No.7 'Storm' which I was very impressed with. Pity he was a Nazi.