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CHARLES KOECHLIN
SINFONIEORCHESTER BASEL · ARIANE MATIAKH
Music by the marvelous, criminally underrated composer and “Aural Alchemist” Charles Koechlin is always a discovery and invariably. “Koechlin can daub with notes as Seurat daubed with bright pigments on canvas [he] could, whenever he wished, bathe his music in the impressionist glories of Debussy and Ravel or give it the delicacy of Fauré and then toughen it up with some Roussel-like grinding rhythms.” (Robert Reilly) He is an impressionist dreamboat. With a title like The Seven Stars Symphony and following so closely on the heels of the equally enchanting Vers la voûte étoilée (Toward the Vault of the Stars), you’d think the work was some spectacular colorist bonanza of celestial ambitions. Actually, it’s Koechlin’s ode to his favorite film stars – but no less bewitching for that.
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#bruckner24 Symphony #4 (1878-1880) 'Romantic'
BRUCKNER ORCHESTER LINZ · ORF VIENNA RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA · Markus Poschner
This Complete Versions Edition includes all versions published or to be published under the auspices of the Austrian National Library and the International Bruckner Society in the Neue Anton Bruckner Gesamtausgabe (The New Anton Bruckner Complete Edition)
“I am completely convinced that my Fourth Romantic Symphony is in pressing need of a thorough revision.” (Anton Bruckner, 1877). Since its successful first performance by the Vienna Philharmonic under Hans Richter on February 20th, 1881, the Fourth Symphony has been one of Anton Bruckner’s most beloved works. The success of the Fourth did not come easily to the composer as he revised the entire symphony twice and its finale three times. The present recording features the second and most often performed version in a new edition by Benjamin Korstvedt, published as part of the New Anton Bruckner Collected Works Edition. It also includes Korstvedt’s edition of the “Country Fair” (Volksfest) Finale that Bruckner composed in 1878 and replaced in 1880.
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HANS WINTERBERG
Jonathan Powell · Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin · Johannes Kalitzke
Hans Winterberg grew up in Prague where he was one of a whole cadre of composers in the new Czech musical tradition. He is one of the few Jewish composers who survived the terror of World War II. His tale of survival is complicated and involved him, as a Czech Jew, having to seek refuge in post-war Germany, whereas contemporaries and colleagues like Viktor Ullmann, Erwin Schulhoff, and Hans Krása died in the concentration camps. He saw his music as “a bridge” between the Slavic East and the West and admitted at one point that his musical starting point was Schoenberg. Audibly more present than Schoenberg, however, is a central European Impressionism, synthesized with complex rhythms.
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40th Anniversary - Sacred Music
Vienna Boys' Choir · Rheinische Kantorei · Dresdner Kreuzchor · Rostocker Motettenchor · Hermann Max · martin Flämig · Howard Arman
CD 1
Caudio Monteverdi: Vesper zum Fest Christi Himmelfahrt
Vespers for the Feast of the Ascension
Schütz-Akademie · Howard Arman
CD 2:
Heinrich Schütz: Kleine Geistliche Konzerte / Little Sacred Concertos SWV 282-304
Tölzer Knabenchor / Tölz Boys‘ Choir · Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden
CD 3:
Johann Sebastian Bach: Motetten / Motets BWV 225-230
Rostocker Motettenchor · Hartwig Eschenburg
CD 4:
Georg Philipp Telemann: Danziger Choralkantaten / Danzig Chorale Cantatas
Rheinische Kantorei · Das Kleine Konzert · Hermann Max
CD 5
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Magnificat · Johann Christian Bach: Tantum ergo · Magnificat
Dresdner Kammerchor · La Stagione · Michael Schneider
CD 6
Sacred Choral Music Of The Dresden Baroque’
Jan Dismas Zelenka: Miserere · Johann Adolph Hasse: Miserere
Johann David Heinichen: Magnificat · Gottfried August Homilius: Cantata
Rheinische Kantorei · Das Kleine Konzert · Hermann Max
CD 7:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Krönungsmesse / Coronation Mass
Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata BWV 21
Wiener Sängerknaben / Vienna Boys‘ Choir · Stuttgarter Philharmoniker · Peter Marschik
CD 8
Franz Schubert: Hymnen / Hymns
Peter Schreier · Berliner Rundfunkchor · Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra · Dietrich Knothe
CD 9:
Johannes Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem / A German Requiem
Häggander · Lorenz · Rundfunkchor Leipzig · Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester Leipzig · Herbert Kegel
CD 10:
Camille Saint-Saens: Christmas Oratorio · Felix Mendelssohn: Vom Himmel hoch (Choral Cantata)
Dresdner Kreuzchor / Dresden Boys’ Choir · Dresdner Philharmonie · Martin Flämig
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J. MATTHESON
Ensemble Paulinum · Pulchra Musica Baroque Orchestra · Christian Bonath
In 1715 Johann Mattheson became music director at Hamburg Cathedral and took advantage of the opportunity to mix sacred music with theatrical style. In his 13 years of service he wrote 24 oratorios for high holidays and lent. The exquisite musical quality of the piece is impressive. The vocal parts are demanding throughout, they were, after all, written for the soloists of Hamburg’s Oper am Gänsemarkt, that first-rate musical institution and first ‘German-speaking’ opera house to which other baroque greats like Haendel, Graupner, and Kaiser were also contributing at the time. The work, which the libretto designates an “oratorio”, was first performed in 1727 under the composer’s direction.
