Music from Belgium

[pjme]

Quite an interesting group of (mostly) late Romantic composers on that  MSR Classics CD with Jeffrey Powers

Meulemans, A: Prelude for Horn and Piano
Mortelmans: Lyrical Pastoral
Poot: Legend for Horn and Piano
Eechaute: Night Poem for Horn and Piano
Westerlinck: Maclou for Horn Solo
Gilson: Five Preludes for Horn and Piano
Ryelandt: Sonata for Horn and Piano, Op. 18

Jeffrey Powers, Principal Horn of the Waco Symphony Orchestra and former Professor of Horn, Baylor University School of Music, holds a Bachelor of Arts degree with "Honors in Music" from Austin College in Sherman, Texas and a Master of Music in Horn from The Cleveland Institute of Music. His major instructors were James London of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Albert Schmitter and Myron Bloom of The Cleveland Orchestra, and Roy Waas of the Buffalo Philharmonic. Having begun his career as second horn in The Hong Kong Philharmonic, Mr. Powers then served as second horn in the New Jersey Symphony, fourth horn in the Philharmonic of Caracas, Venezuela, and fourth horn and Wagner tuba in The Cleveland Orchestra.
He then played Principal horn for sixteen years with the Royal Philharmonic of Flanders, Antwerp, Belgium and taught horn, chamber music, and transposition at the Lemmens Institute in Leuven, Belgium. Presently Mr. Powers is also Principal Horn with the Abilene Philharmonic as well as the Waco Symphony Orchestra. He has five solo CD's released to date.  "Let All That Hath Breath Praise the Lord – Music of Praise for Horn", "Into the 21st Century – Music for horn and piano by Baldwin, Bentzon, Pilss and Vignery", "In a Lyrical way – Music for Horn and Piano by Flemish Masters" and "Steppingstones for Horn, Volume I and Volume II.
 

Prosper Van Eechautes Night poem exists also in an orchestral version,.

Robert Herberigs (Straussian) "Cyrano de Bergerac" for horn and orchestra, has gotten some attention and was recorded by André Van Driessche

[pjme]

For those who might like Legley's spikey style, the inscrutable YouTube mogul Remus Platen has several of Legleys symphonies.

[vandermolen]

From WAYLTN thread:
Godfried Devreese: Symphony No.1 'Gothic Symphony'
A fine, oddly moving work as is 'In Memoriam':

[Roy Bland]

From WAYLTN thread:
Godfried Devreese: Symphony No.1 'Gothic Symphony'
A fine, oddly moving work as is 'In Memoriam':

Sadly after the death of  son he seems completely forgotten

[pjme]

Sadly after the death of  son he seems completely forgotten

His entire symphonic oeuvre could easily be compiled on 2 or 3 cds....

apart from the Gothic, he wrote 3 more symphonies

a Goethe symphony (1952-1955), with chorus (prop. nr. 2)
I wasn' able to locate nr. 3
a 4th symphony is mentioned as being written in 1966
pianoconcerto (1938)
2 violinconcerti (1937,1970)
a cello concertino (at least two different orchestrations)
Sinfonietta for strings (1962)
concertante works for clarinet, trumpet
Symphonic variations on a Scottish folksong (1923)
Several works for brass (with or without percussions) 
Suite for orchestra (1953)

[Roy Bland]

His entire symphonic oeuvre could easily be compiled on 2 or 3 cds....

apart from the Gothic, he wrote 3 more symphonies

a Goethe symphony (1952-1955), with chorus (prop. nr. 2)
I wasn' able to locate nr. 3
a 4th symphony is mentioned as being written in 1966
pianoconcerto (1938)
2 violinconcerti (1937,1970)
a cello concertino (at least two different orchestrations)
Sinfonietta for strings (1962)
concertante works for clarinet, trumpet
Symphonic variations on a Scottish folksong (1923)
Several works for brass (with or without percussions)
Suite for orchestra (1953)

this remark can be extended to the entire Belgian orchestral production of the last century. Apart from Naxos synthetistes there is nothing

[vandermolen]

Sadly after the death of  son he seems completely forgotten

Yes, I noticed that as well. His son is the conductor on the CD.

I'd love to hear a more modern recording of The Gothic Symphony and In Memoriam.