BOEHE; ERNST

Ernst Boehe’s late-romantic, post-Wagnerian symphonic poems abound in rich harmonies and lush orchestral textures, with much declamatory and heroic writing for the brass. Part Four

German composers seem duty-bound to write “Tragic Overtures” and “Tragic Symphonies”, and so far only Brahms and Mahler (in their very different ways) have succeeded