Kindermann / Siedlaczek / Kobow - Opitianischer Orpheus - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Georgy Sviridov's Canticles and Prayers is considered by many as one of the most important works in Russian sacred music. In this new recording the Latvian Radio Choir under Sigvards Klava offers impressive renditions of music from this collection by the Russian master. Sviridov, a pupil of Shostakovich, began writing religious works in 1969. Since then these works have come to form an important part of his oeuvre. In the 1980s Sviridov had several projects to write a liturgy or a mass. In the end, the sketches of his sacred music came to form a cycle titled Canticles and Prayers. The work was created at a turning point in the history of Russia, the perestroika years that ended in the collapse of the Soviet state. The composer was keenly affected by the events of those years, building a monument to his era. The main body of Canticles and Prayers was assembled between 1988 and 1992. In September 1997, Sviridov selected the versions he thought best, approving the final order for the first three parts and making the final edits to the score. This work remained incomplete at the time of his death in 1998. Canticles and Prayers was thus Sviridov's last work. The recording also includes the chorus The Red Easter based on a cycle of Easter hymns. Previous releases of the Latvian Radio Choir on Ondine have been highly successful. For instance, the recording of Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil was chosen as the Record of the Month, Editor's Choice and received a nomination in the Gramophone Awards in 2013. Also, their more recent releases of choral works by Valentin Silvestrov and Eriks Esenvalds received Gramophone Editor's Choice.

In Berlin the composers Berthold Goldschmidt and Franz Reizenstein developed into products of the anti-romantic Inchnew realism.Inch However, both distanced themselves from this dry objectivity and sought more powerful means of expression while avoiding the late romantic excesses that at the time continued to predominate in Germany. The surprising fact is that neither Reizenstein nor Goldschmidt felt drawn to Schonberg's method of twelve-tone composition. In 1934 and 1935 both composers fled from Berlin to England, that is, prior to the tightening of immigration requirements. Influences from Reizenstein's teachers Paul Hindemith and Ralph Vaughan Williams are audible in the rather harsh, expressionistic character of his concerto. Raphael Wallfisch writes of this work, InchReizenstein's Cello Concerto is a tour de force for the cellist. What is involved here is an epic and heroic statement in which lyrical and dramatic elements alternate.Inch Album Tracks 1. Cello Concerto in G 2. Cello Concerto

Album Tracks 1. Ritual - Leif Segerstam 2. (K)Ein Sommernachtstraum - Tom Holst 3. Passacaglia - Leif Segerstam 4. I. Folget Nun 5. II. Die Vierundzwanzig Jahre. 6. III. Gehen Also Miteinander 7. IV. Meine Liebe 8. V. Ach, Mein Herr Fauste 9. VI. Doktor Faustus Klagte 10. VII. Es Geschah 11. VIII. Diese Gemeldete Magistri 12. IX. Also Endet Sich 13. X. Seid Nuechern Und Wachet