Gulke, Peter / WDR SOandC Koln - Schreker: Orchestral and Choral Music

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Item: Gulke, Peter / WDR SOandC Koln - Schreker: Orchestral and Choral Music - 2CD

Artist: Peter Gulke / WDR SOandC Koln
Title: Schreker: Orchestral and Choral Music
Music: Classical Orchestral
Format: 2CD
Number Of Items: 2
Condition: This item is New
Label: Brilliant Classics

Item Weight (kilo): 0.16
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The music of late-romantic Viennese composer Franz Schreker was largely forgotten by the end of World War Two, but there has recently been a revival in interest in his work. Fundamentally a theatre composer, he is most famous for his operas, but he composed in other genres and this 2-CD set shows his fine capabilities in orchestral and vocal music. His only symphony (Symphony in A minor) was written when he was a student at the Vienna Conservatory, and hints at the talent that would emerge in later years. The symphony was not performed until 1999, a hundred years after it was written, because the manuscript had long been lost. When it was rediscovered the last movement had disappeared and that is how it is now performed. The richly-textured choral/orchestral setting of Psalm 116 was Schreker’s graduation piece and shows the influence of Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem. Another early work is the romantic Schwanengesang Op. 111 for mixed chorus and orchestra, to a text by his friend and regular librettist Dora Leen. The exotic monodrama Das Weib des Intasphernes, his last dramatic work, uses a text by Eduard Stucken based on a horrifying Persian fable. It demonstrates his ability to embody words with maximum harmonic and textural intensity, similar in many ways to the gifts of Hugo Wolf, and in fact Schreker orchestrated two of Wolf’s Eichendorff Leider. His ability with orchestral colour can be seen in the sensuous Funf Gesänge, set to five poems based on the Arabian Nights, with its imaginative use of harps, celesta and muted brass. The last two pieces are dances. Festwalzer und Walzerintermezzo is very reminiscent of Johann Strauss and is based on the Austrian National Hymn. Tanzspiel links his 20thcentury style with the graceful design of Baroque and Neoclassical forms.

Features:
WDR Sinfonieorchester und Chor Köln
Peter Gulke

Tracklisting:
Schreker:
symphony In A Minor, Op. 1
das Weib Des Intaphernes
psalm 116, Op. 6
festwalzer Und Walzerintermezzo
ein Tanzspiel
fünf Gesänge
immer Hatt’ich Noch Gluck Im Leben
wollte Ich Hadern Mit Gluck Und Schicksal
fagea
die Sturmglocke
schwanensang, Op. 11
wolf, H:
verschwiegene Liebe (no. 3 From Eichendorff-lieder) Arr. Schreker
heimweh (from Eichendorff-lieder) Arr. Schreker


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