Wieniawski / Madoszkiewicz / Wagner-Artzt - Polonaise Brillante - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Our comprehensive and successful Reznicek edition now presents three very different works - the Symphonic Suite No. 1 (1882), Dream Play Suite (1915 / 21), and Carnival Suite (1932) - which the composer nonetheless assigned to the suite genre. Taken together, they document his compositional and stylistic development over the decades. Moreover, they are performed by an orchestra that Reznicek himself once had conducted for a short time the Weimar State Orchestra. His Symphonic Suite is more like a three-movement symphony for full orchestra. It is clearly audible that here Reznicek is not concerned with motivic work and thematic fission but with the contrast of moods. The harmony and the instrumentation leave little doubt about it's source of inspiration in Wagner. The suite from the incidental music to Strindberg's Dream Play is a series of short, atmospherically dense musical pictures, and in terms of it's compositional history the Carnival Suite is a symphonic intermezzo dividing the opera Gondoliere des Dogen into two parts. In the manner of a Baroque suite, it consists of seven parts March - Introduction - Pierrot and Columbine - Gigue - Furlana - Passepied - Aria - Gypsy March. The relation of the suite to the rest of the opera music results from the circumstance that here too the rhythm of the Furlana (dance from the Friuli region) is omnipresent. Album Tracks 1. Karneval-Suite Im Alten Stil (1931/35) 2. Traumspiel-Suite (1916/21) 3. Symphonische Suite No. 1 (1882)

The final volume of Paul Hindemith's(1895-1963) youthful and fresh Kammermusik series from the 1920s includes Kammermusik Nos. 4-7 performed by Kronberg Academy Soloists and the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra under a true Hindemith specialist, Christoph Eschenbach, who has won a Grammy for a previous Hindemith album on Ondine. These four works by Hindemith can be considered as full-bodied concertos for violin, viola, viola d'amore and organ. These work feature four young talented soloists, Stephen Waarts, Rimothy Ridout, Ziyu Shenand Christian Schmitt. Hindemith's Kammermusik No. 4 ('Violin Concerto') is scored for a larger orchestra than it's three predecessors and includes 24 instrumentalists. Kammermusik No. 5 ('Viola Concerto') the composer premiered himself by playing the solo part. In total, Hindemith performed this work for 85 times during the next 11 years! In a letter, Hindemith described the viola d'amore as Inchthe most beautiful thing that you can imagine in soundInch. The composer fell in love with the instrument and wrote his Kammermusik No. 6 with this instrument in mind. Hindemith's final Kammermusik (No. 7) was written to a commission by the Southwest German Radio the premiere of this Organ Concerto was transmitted live in 1928. The radio broadcast had a decisive role in the composer's choice of instrumentation.

Korvits / Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir - Tonu Korvits Moorland Elegies [COMPACT DISCS] date 04/28/2017