ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien - Prokofiev, Villa-Lobos, & Poulenc - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Ernst von Dohnanyi was one of the most versatile and influential musicians of his time but his works are now seldom played. A gap which Capriccio want to fill now with this fifth recording of his late romantic, sensual music, deeply rooted in the Austro-German classical tradition. An appetizer is the overture of the one-act opera Tanta Simona, which has plenty of that Italian flair to show for that runs through the opera's plot. After it's premiere in 1910, the Suite in F-sharp minor Op.19 became one of the most performed Dohnányi's works, whereas the American Rhapsody Op.47, which is full of quotations with American folk melodies, was his last orchestral work, first performed in 1954 at Ohio University. Finally his 8 years younger colleague Leó Weiner shows us in his early composition, the Serenade in F minor (1906) apart from the influence of the German and Austrian romantics, typical Hungarian colors and rhythms.

Slightly the audience remember that I'm - as a descendant of writing tonal music - still alive and continue composing. (Walter Braunfels, 1946) Walter Braunfels is a composer whose music died twice Once when the Nazis declared his music Inchdegenerate artInch. Then again when post-war Germany had little use for the various schools of tonal music; when the arbiters of taste considered any form of romantic music - almost the whole pre-war aesthetic - to be tainted. This 9th of Capriccio's Braunfels Edition shows us also an open-minded composer who experimented with Jazz elements in his Divertimento for radio-orchestra in 1929.

Bruckner revised his Third Symphony more than any other There are three manuscript versions, two published versions from within his lifetime, a separate manuscript of the Adagio, and surviving revision fragments from 1874, 1875, and 1876. In it's first version (here recorded), it is Bruckner's longest and most overtly Wagnerian symphony. When Brucknerian extraordinaire Robert Simpson got to study Nowak's edition of this version in 1977, he threw his hitherto held opinions overboard and declared it an Inchachievement... progressively maimed in successive versions.Inch As part of this completist cycle, Markus Poschner will present the work in all states of pruning, but this is the obvious point to start at.