If the name of German composer Walter Braunfels is known at all today, it is through the revival of his 1920 opera Die Vogel, issued in 1996 in a performance led by Lothar Zagrosek in Decca's now defunct Entarte Musik series. Conductor Dennis Russell Davies here returns with a sampling of Braunfels' orchestral music in a CPO offering with the ...
Atlanta-born soprano Jennifer Larmore was made a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture in February 2002, no mean feat for a singer who made her debut only 16 years earlier in the city of Nice. Her passion for nineteenth century French opera is essayed in the Teldec release l'étoile, a selection of 11 full-length arias ...
Josef Matthias Hauer, to judge from his writings and accounts of his social interactions with his contemporaries, was the Rodney Dangerfield of the Viennese serialists; he just couldn't get any respect. Having developed a parallel but markedly individual system of serial tonal organization a little ahead of Arnold Schoenberg's first published ...
Egon Wellesz's Symphony No. 1 from 1946 isn't too bad. At its best, it's second-rate early Berg and at its worst, it's second-rate late Berg. The Symphony No. 8 from 1969 isn't too good. At its best, it's third-rate late Schoenberg and at its worst, it's fourth-rate late Schoenberg. And the Symphonischer Epilog from 1970 isn't any better -- just ...
Where does Egon Wellesz (1885-1974) fit into the Austro-Germanic symphonic tradition? Near the end: although a prolific and successful composer in his native Austria, Wellesz only started composing symphonies after he fled to England following the Anschluss. As the two works on this disc from the '50s demonstrate, Wellesz was just about but not ...
CPO should be commended for promoting neglected nineteenth and twentieth century works by obscure German and Austrian composers, but not all of these forgotten pieces deserve equal attention, and some of the label's releases are weak enough to be dismissed after one hearing. Take, for example, this 2007 album of the Piano Concerto in C major and ...
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