Bach wrote a mass at the end of his life, and everybody knows it's one of the supreme sacred works in all western music. Mozart wrote a requiem at the end of his life, and everybody knows it's one of the supreme sacred works in all western music. So how come Haydn, who wrote six -- count 'em, six -- masses at the end of his life, and how many ...
Berlin Classics' Hanns Eisler: Kammermusik represents a gathering of chamber music from 1920 to 1947, recorded between 1965 and 1973 as part of a comprehensive recording of all of Eisler's music as undertaken by the East German Eterna label. It ranges from the pithy, discordant but tonally concluded Scherzo for string trio of 1920 to the elegant ...
When in 1948 German composer Hanns Eisler was expelled from the United States in the early stages of the Red Scare, Virgil Thomson lamented, "It is a matter of regret to this reviewer to lose a workman so gifted, so skillful, so imaginative. Let us hope that his musical works may come to us regularly from Europe." Arriving in East Germany in 1950, ...
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