I found the Capriccio recording on display at Barnes and Noble in Chicago earlier this summer after having previously looked for a recording of the work via Tower and Amazon, but had come up empty. This morning, prompted by lonewolfny, I checked arkive music and found several recordings available, one of which included a short review of the work.
Looking at the alternative recordings, I'd probably still stick with the Capriccio with the Apex a close second. The 2nd Symphony on Capriccio is also a striking and haunting work in one movement for full orchestra, a sixteen minute Adagio.
Karl Amadeus Hartmann (1905–1962) had withdrawn from the musical life of Germany after the Nazis took power in 1933. He sent his haunting Concerto funèbre for solo violin and string orchestra (1939) abroad, as a musical protest against the cynical division of Czechoslovakia accomplished in Munich, his hometown, in 1938. Hartmann’s work is written in (for him) a rather conservative musical language, while remaining uniquely original in its effect. The composer’s penchant for atonal or trans-tonal composition is present, if at all, in the angry third movement. But even there, firm tonal foundations are almost always evident. The brief introduction, the following Adagio, and the final Chorale/Slow March are deeply sorrowful, but also quite lovely, and the music ends with a full chord in D Major, as if to say that truth and beauty, however derailed in the turmoil of the time, would someday prevail.
http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/albumList.jsp?name_id1=5111&name_role1=1&comp_id=86420&bcorder=15
