Wdr Sinfonieorchester - The Wooden Prince Dance Suite - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The Wooden Prince is a fairy tale ballet with an original story by Bart k' literary acquaintance Bela BalAzs, who had also written the libretto to Bluebeard' Castle. Though outwardly sunny in it's subject matter, the Wooden Prince. Album Tracks 1. The Wooden Prince (A Fabol Faragot Kiralyfi), BB74

Beethoven und Schulhoff in Dialogue Schuch InchIndeed, it's quite exciting to look at what was going on exactly 100 years ago - perhaps because 1923 doesn't seem all that distant to us. Certain events and circumstances seem to mirror one another a century apart. From a musical point of view, Erwin Schulhoff's piano concerto is a truly interesting work that has not attained the recognition it deserves... In terms of style, the piano concerto, composed between 11 June and 10 July 1923, is one of those works where Schulhoff radically deals with the dance types of jazz, which had crossed the Atlantic at the end of the First World War and spread out from Paris until taking all of Europe by storm... No other pair of composers could be more different - on paper - than these two. Schulhoff always took a decisive stance against traditionalism. Indeed, he may have been something of an iconoclast, but he was also a talented and well-trained pianist - a pianist who wanted to earn success in that very role. Of course, Schulhoff studied the Beethoven concertos, performed them, and ultimately also took the opportunity (like many other composers before him) to put his stamp on these works by writing his own cadenzas... ... It was also in Berlin - in February 1923, to be exact - that Schulhoff conceived and worked out the cadenzas for the first four Beethoven piano concertos... Inch (Excerpts from the booklets notes) Album Tracks 1. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15 (1795) 2. Concerto for Piano and Small Orchestra, Op. 43 (WV 66, 1923)) 3. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15

When Toscanini encouraged Nino Rota to study at the Curtis Institute, where instructions by Fritz Reiner and a friendship with Aaron Copland awaited the precocious composer, it was already clear he would have a massive career. Only the direction wasn't certain yet. It turned out to be classical music and film music, the former informing the latter. Notable when you listen to the delicious waltz Rota from War & Peace or the darkly humorous snippets from the very apropos Orchestra Rehearsal. And while the de-facto horn concertino Castel del Monte, inspired by King Frederick II's famous medieval castle in southern Italy, isn't technically film music, it very much sounds like music to a fantasy film of Rota's imagining. Album Tracks 5. Guerra e pace / War and Peace Film Music Suite~La Rosa di Novgorod 15. Concerto per Archi / Concerto for strings~Aria 21. Prova d'orchestra / Orchestra Rehearsal Film Music (Excerpts)~Valzerino Nr. 72