For many years, Gustav Mahler's comparatively compact Symphony No. 4 in G major has enjoyed special favor, and alongside the Symphony No. 1 in D major, "Titan," and the Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor, it has been recorded more frequently than his other, much lengthier symphonies. Its enduring popularity has not gone unnoticed by the major ...
Interest in Joseph Marx's music has increased considerably since the 1980s, due in part to growing demands from audiences to hear more tonal music from the early twentieth century. Marx was a younger contemporary of Arnold Schoenberg, but he was unwilling to adopt the elder composer's atonality or his twelve tone method, which came to dominate ...
An arrangement of Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 for chamber ensemble could never be intended as anything but a substitute for the real thing. The elysian heights and abysmal depths of Bruckner's awesome orchestra could never be reproduced by anything but a full-scale Romantic orchestra. Nor was this arrangement of the Symphony No. 7 for chamber ...
Music for two violins without accompaniment might seem a bit thin for a full-length CD, but with a little accommodation for the limited pitch range and textures available to a violin duo, listeners can quickly adjust and appreciate the works on this 2005 album from CPO. Violinists Thomas Christian and Daniela Preimesberger are ideally balanced in ...
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 ...
This small-ensemble performance of Viennese waltzes -- the music is played on two violins, a viola, a cello, and a string bass -- isn't claimed to be an authentic performance; the waltz as it increasingly developed depended on complex orchestration and contrasts between solo and group. Nevertheless, as annotator Hans Winking points out, the ...
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