cd

Walter Braunfels

Don Gil - Prelude · Divertimento for Radio Orchestra · Ariel's Song · Serenade
ORF VIENNA RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA · GREGOR BÜHL

C5429 PC: 21 UPC: 845221054292

‘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 “degenerate art”. 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 already 9th release 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.

Hörprobe

Weitere Bilder

ERWIN SCHULHOFF

FLAMMEN
RAYMOND VERY · IRIS VERMILLION · STEPHANIE FRIEDE · ARNOLD SCHOENBERG CHOR · ORF VIENNA RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA · BERTRAND DE BILLY

2CD · C5382 PC: 22 UPC: 845221053820


Musical Tragicomedy in 2 Acts with 10 Scenes WV 93 (1928-32)
Libretto von / by: Max Brod · Nach / after: Karel Josef Beneš 
Don Juan RAYMOND VERY
La Morte IRIS VERMILLION
Eine Frau / Eine Nonne / Margarethe / Donna Anna STEPHANIE FRIEDE
1. Frauenschatten GABRIELA BONE
2. Frauenschatten NINA BERNSTEINER
3. Frauenschatten ANNA PESHES
4. Frauenschatten CHRISTA RATZENBÖCK
5. Frauenschatten HERMINE HASELBÖCK
 6. Frauenschatten ELISABETH WOLFBAUER
Der Komthur Salvador FERNÁNDEZ-CASTRO
Pulcinella KARL-MICHAEL EBNER
Pantalone ANDREAS JANKOWITSCH
Harlekin MARKUS RAAB
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG CHOR
(Einstudierung / Chorus Master: Erwin Ortner)
Jazzband: Mitglieder des Orchesters der Vereinigten Bühnen Wien
ORF VIENNA RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA · BERTRAND DE BILLY

In the 1920s and 1930s, there was a multi-faceted musical scene in culturally flourishing Czechoslovakia. When we take a look at the works by e.g. Pavel Haas, Gideon Klein, Hans Krása, Viktor Ullmann or Erwin Schulhoff, we can perceive a stylistically very similar course, conceivable against the given background as a ‘Prague School’ (as a counter-movement to the ‘Viennese School’). In Schulhoff’s early works, the features are a late Romantic approach influenced by Reger that later developed with an emphasis on rhythm in the direction of Expressionism and Neo-Classicism, also including jazz elements. The starting point is the ‘Don Juan’ story, but the underlying idea in Beneš’ and Schulhoff’s work is not to present the colourful seducer, but the fate of a man driven by his desires and needs who cannot even remotely find happiness and peace in constancy. In his opera, Schulhoff brilliantly manages to find a different dramaturgical approach, on the one hand, and at the same time to pay a kind of alienated homage to Mozart’s work, on the other.


Hörprobe

Weitere Bilder

Alexander Zemlinsky

DER KÖNIG KANDAULES (Opera Complete Recording) · Remastered Edition
JAMES O’NEAL · MONTE PEDERSON · NINA WARREN · PHILHARMONISCHES STAATSORCHESTER HAMBURG GERD ALBRECHT

2CD-Set C5443 PC: 21 (Special Price) UPC: 845221054438

König Kandaules: JAMES O’NEAL
Gyges: MONTE PEDERSON
Nyssia: NINA WARREN
Phedros: KLAUS HÄGER
Syphax: PETER GALLIARD
Nicomedes: MARIUSZ KWIECIEN
Pharnaces: KURT GYSEN
Philebos: SIMON YANG
PHILHARMONISCHES STAATSORCHESTER HAMBURG
GERD ALBRECHT, Dirigent / conductor

When the German troops occupied Austria in 1938, he fled with his wife Louise via Prague to New York, with the short score of Canduales in his luggage. Zemlinsky attached great hopes of producing the piece at the Met but on account of the somewhat delicate bed scene in the 2nd act they dismissed the production. Building a new existence once more remained denied to Zemlinsky. Only half a year after his arrival he suffered a stroke from which he was never fully to recover. For Zemlinsky’s 150th Birthday Anniversary, Capriccio presents a new remastered edition of this legendary first recording from 1996.

Hörprobe

Weitere Bilder

Alexander Zemlinsky

ES WAR EINMAL (ONCE UPON A TIME) · Opera Complete Recording (Remastered Edition)
EVA JOHANSSON · KURT WESTI · PER ARNE WAHLGREN · THE DANISH RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA · HANS GRAF

2CD-Set · C5440 PC: 21 (Special Price) UPC: 845221054407

A Fairy-tale Opera in a Prologue and three Acts

Text: Maximilian Singer nach / after: Holger Drachmann „Der var engang“
Prinzessin / Princess: EVA JOHANSSON
Prinz / Prince: KURT WESTI
Kaspar: PER ARNE WAHLGREN
König / King: AAGE HAUGLAND
Ein Freier / A Suitor: OLE HEDEGAARD
Ein Schweizer / A Commissionaire: GUIDO PAEVATALU
Kommandant / Commander – 
Herold / Herald: CHRISTIAN CHRISTIANSEN
Erste Hofdame / First Lady In Waiting: SUSSE LILLESOE
THE DANISH NATIONAL RADIO CHORUS
(Choreinstudierung / Chorus Master: Kaare Hansen)
THE DANISH RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
HANS GRAF, Dirigent / conductor

 
By the 1890's Zemlinsky had already acquired a reputation as a promising young composer and pianist. In October 1897 Gustav Mahler had become director of the Vienna Hofoper and was determined to do what he could to help Zemlinsky. With characteristic energy Mahler worked his way through the opera with Zemlinsky, advising on and making changes in the music and the libretto. The resulting score provides a fascinating and little-explored document for both Zemlinsky and Mahler studies. Es war einmal received its first performance under Mahler on the 22 January 1900. For the Zemlinsky 150th Birthday Anniversary, Capriccio presents a new remastered edition of this legendary first recording from 1987. 

Hörprobe

Weitere Bilder

JOSEF LABOR (1842-1924)

Cello Sonata no. 1 Op. 7 · Theme and variations for horn Op. 10 · Violin Sonata no. 1 Op. 5
Nina Karmon · Floris Mijnders · Přemysl Vojta · Oliver Triendl

C5430 PC: 21 UPC: 845221054308

The positive response to Capriccio’s first recording of his Piano Quartet and Piano Quintet (C5390) has enabled this series to be continued now with three works representative of Labor's oeuvre from the early 1890s. In Vienna, Labor was part of Johannes Brahms’s close circle of friends. Brahms particularly valued his composer colleagues who went their own way without copying him. Labor’s music is very skillfully composed, always sensuous, and first and foremost melodious; it does not require a too complete concentration on itself. A total of around eighty compositions have survived. Among them are practically no occasional works, which is connected to the fact that he was blind: for him composition was a luxury, insofar as he had to rely on the help of a scribe who had to commit the work to paper.

Hörprobe

Weitere Bilder

Older Newer