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#bruckner24 Symphony #8 (1890)

(Complete Versions Edition)
Bruckner Orchester Linz - Markus Poschner

C8081 PC: 21 UPC: 845221080819

This Complete Versions Edition includes all versions published or to be published under the auspices of the
Austrian National Library in the Neue Anton Bruckner Gesamtausgabe
(New Anton Bruckner Collected Works 
Edition).


Anton Bruckner burst out of the confines of the cathedral using that most secular of musical forms, the symphony. The creator of some of the 19th century’s greatest orchestral music, Bruckner cut a singular figure among his contemporaries. This new complete Bruckner Symphonies edition from Capriccio reassesses these enduringly enigmatic and complex works. Presented by the Bruckner Orchestra Linz and the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, and featuring all 19 available versions, the cycle is scheduled for completion in 2024, Bruckner’s 200th birthday. The second release, of Symphony No. 8 (1890 version) is performed by Bruckner Orchestra Linz conducted by Markus Poschner.

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HINDEMITH: MATHIS DER MALER

Wolfgang Koch · Kurt Streit · Charles Reid · Manuela Uhl · Franz Grundheber
Slowakischer Philharmonischer Chor · Wiener Symphoniker · Bertrand de Billy

3CD-Set · C5450 PC: 22 UPC: 845221054506

PAUL HINDEMITH (1895-1963)
MATHIS DER MALER
Oper in sieben Bildern / Opera in seven scenes (1938)

Libretto: Paul Hindemith

MATHISHofmaler des Erzbischofs: Wolfgang Koch
ALBRECHT VON BRANDENBURG
Kardinal und Erzbischof von Mainz: Kurt Streit
LORENZ VON POMMERSFELDENDomdechant: Martin Snell
WOLFGANG CAPITORat des Kardinals: Charles Reid
RIEDINGEREin reicher Mainzer Bürger: Franz Grundheber
URSULAseine Tochter: Manuela Uhl
HANS SCHWALBein Bauernführer: Raymond Very
REGINAseine Tochter: Katerina Tretyakova
SYLVESTER VON SCHAUMBURGOffizier: Oliver Ringelhahn
TRUCHSESS VON WALDBURGHeeresbefehlshaber: Ben Connor
GRÄFIN HELFENSTEINMagdalena Anna Hofmann 
DER PFEIFER DES GRAFENAndrew Owens

Slowakischer Philharmonischer Chor
WIENER SYMPHONIKER · BERTRAND DE BILLY
 
Mathis der Maler is the central composition of Paul Hindemith’s output for music theater. The reception began with its successful premiere of a symphony of three orchestral parts from the opera, in March of 1934 in Berlin. That was still before the composer was attacked in the National-Socialist press which prompted a defense of Furtwängler’s in a newspaper article titled “The Hindemith Case”. The opera wasn’t premiered until May 1938, in Zurich, where the Hindemith’s had emigrated to, before moving on to the United States. Much as Mathis, who found his political engagement in the Peasant’s War and his calling to paint solely for the glory of God to collide with the expectation to positions himself on religious matters during the Reformation, Hindemith found himself torn between his refusal to propagate for the Nazis, his urge to follow his inner voice, and the demand that he position himself against the regime. These highly acclaimed performances from 2012 at Theater an der Wien with Opera Star Roland Koch in the title role is finally now available as CD-Release.

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NIKOLAI KAPUSTIN

Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 4 · Concerto for violin, piano and strings · Chamber Symphony
Frank Dupree · Rosanne Philippens · Meinhard Jenne · Württembergisches Kammerorchester · Case Scaglione

C5437 PC: 21 845221054377

‘……our life is like jazz improvisation, it should always be spontaneous, always in the moment, and always free.’ Nikolai Kapustin
Drawing parallels to another famous composer of symphonic jazz, Kapustin is occasionally considered a ‘Russian in Gershwin’s clothing’. Most of his compositions are influenced by jazz and expertly combine jazz elements with those of the tradition from Bach to Prokofiev and Stravinsky. The aesthetic diversity with which classical garb and the stylistic devices of jazz are amalgamated in Kapustin’s output could be taken as the byword for all three compositions included on this recording. Only late – perhaps too late for Kapustin – did his catalogue of works reach greater international recognition. People who knew him, describe him as a man who never desired the limelight. Apparently, he was happiest when he was able to compose work after work in his apartment, far away from the public eye.

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Alfred Schnittke: Film Music Vol. 5

Дневные звёзд (The Stars of the Day) USSR, 1966 · Любимец публики (The Favorite) USSR 1985 · Отец Сергий (Father Sergius) USSR, 1978
Rundfunkchor Berlin · Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin · Frank Strobel

C5350 PC: 21 845221053509

Alfred Schnittke’s film music encapsulates almost everything that characterises the Russian composer’s compositional style. A self-described polystylist, he began writing for film in the 1960s, penning 66 film scores between 1962 and 1984 for Soviet film companies. His method of drawing on the past was rejected by the avant-garde but embraced by filmgoers and – after he invited the film music expert Frank Strobel to condense his film scores into suites – concertgoers too. Volume five in this series of Schnittke’s film music presents music from the films Tagessterne (‘The Stars of the day’), Der Liebling des Publikums (‘The Favorite') and Vater Sergius (‘Father Sergius’), recorded with Strobel and the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra.

SCHNITTKE – Film Music Edition Vol. 1-4
4CD-Set · C7196

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POETRY OF WOMEN COMPOSERS

Sophie Reyer · Susanna Ridler · Julia Lacherstorfer · Johanna Doderer · Melissa Coleman · · Maria Gstaettner
Elfi Aichinger · Nazanin Aghakhani · Pamelia Stickney.... and many more

2CD-Set · C5431 PC: 21 UPC: 845221054315

One of the modules in the exhibition MusicaFemina – Women Made Music, presented in 2018 in Vienna, featured 100 female composers who have characterised female composition of music from the time of Sappho to the present day. When the exhibition was open for two months and viewed by 56,000 visitors, the poet, filmmaker and composer Sophie Reyer had the idea, inspired by her ancestresses, of composing 100 poetic texts to complement the series of 100 short biographies. She offered the 100 poetic passages as texts or audio portraits to contemporary composers for composition, with the poet eagerly creating postscripts for those particularly forgotten, those whom the female composers particularly wished to be remembered. The compositional work about the ancestresses was a voyage of discovery: into the history of the female composers; into one’s own history. This poetic-musicological project represents an impressive, profound snapshot of female composing, a poetic encyclopaedia, a first-time and unparalleled bridging of the chasm between historic and contemporary composing. it is an opportunity to take a look at the history of music and clear the path for further opportunities.

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