Hänssler Classics is committed to recording all the works of Wolfgang Rihm, one of the most prolific and intriguing German composers to emerge in the late twentieth century, and this CD is the third installment in the Rihm Edition. The composer shows remarkable assurance in his first symphony, written in 1969, when he was 17. It's a serial piece, ...
Ernst Krenek is a composer of undeniable importance in the pantheon of the twentieth century, but his music is one of the toughest nuts to crack for the average listener; it sounds so dispassionate, disconnected, and absorbed with matters of form and technique it is simply not a touchy-feely kind of experience. Knowing where to start might make a ...
This Hänssler Classic disc will certainly not fail to interest Ivesians, as it represents the first complete recording of a cycle of major significance within Charles Ives' work, his Psalm settings, which began with his never-before-recorded setting of Psalm 42 written in 1888 when Ives was 14, and Psalm 90, begun in 1894 but not considered ...
Kurtág's choral music is recognizably the product of the same imagination that produced his exquisite vocal miniatures, the cycles Scenes from a Novel and Messages of the Late R.V. Troussova -- lean, concise, texturally spare, and almost Webernian, while at the same time being deeply expressive. The two a cappella works recorded here, Omaggio a ...
For listeners who know Elliott Carter primarily for the uncompromisingly spiky modernism of the style that crystallized around the midpoint of the century, the music he wrote before then may come as a surprise. Between 1936 and 1947, he wrote a number of substantial choral works, most of which are recorded here, that contradict the stereotype of ...
Choral conductors are generally not viewed as being innovators, so dependent are they on realizing the letter and law of the scores they receive from composers. One choral conductor who can be classed as an innovator is Clytus Gottwald; as founder and longtime conductor of the Stuttgart Schola Cantorum, Gottwald piloted the group through the ...
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