CPO: 7772062

Hermann Bischoff, a pupil of Richard Strauss, was a highly gifted composer and always reaped high praise from music critics and the press, but his compositional output remained relatively small. A mere two symphonies, two shorter orchestral pieces, one and a half operas, and a handful of songs were produced during his lifetime. This disc is the second in a two volume series and presents the recording premieres of Symphony No. 2 and Introduktion & Rondo.

After the performance premiere one critic wrote, “After the first symphony, which was composed in great dependence on R. Strauss, this new D minor symphony almost has the effect of an idyll. Music from the spirit of the absolutely musical.”