Download, Krenek (composer)

Çakmur’s playing has plenty of vigour, too: his handling of rhythmic quirks can knock you off balance; whiplash grace notes can shock you; and the upbeat finale of the Krenek will leave you... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, July 2024 More…

The tone of voice, so perfectly captured by Floraian Boesch’s securely focused yet nonchalant baritone, is very much that of the so-called ‘new objectivity’ of the 1920s…the piano accompaniments,... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

the sheer range of Petersen's soprano and her interests enables her to compel and convince as much in 1821 Schubert as in German composer Manfred Trojahn's settings from 2008...Most fascinating... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The centenary of German radio is marked here by works composed at the time. Spikily characterful dance suites by Toch, Weill and Bartók neatly sum up the era, while Krenek’s a cappella choral... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

All is well with the world in these serenades by Gál and Krenek, which breathe the same Viennese air of good humour as exemplars of the form by Mozart, Brahms and Schoenberg...To usher comparatively... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2024 More…

Odradek’s excellent annotator Hugh Collins Rice remarks on the concerto’s combination of modernism and nostalgia, and aside from the frequent fluency of Napolitano’s playing, the excellent contribution... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2017 More…

It is a measure of her gifts that Chen Reiss takes all these composers in her stride. That vocal stride is impressive: sustained lyric tone that is only rarely forced...Charles Spencer is as... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The score’s big moments are well in hand under Pinchas Steinberg, though voices and orchestra maintain an aural distance…this recording is a mixed blessing, but without it we might never know... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2017 More…