Special offer. Krenek: Music For Chamber Orchestra
Agata Zubel (soprano), Mathias Hausmann (baritone)
Leopoldinium Orchestra, Ernest Kovacic
This imaginative disc puts the early (1931), lusciously part-tonal setting for coloratura and orchestra, Die Nachtigall (verse by Karl Kraus), beside spikier works from the 1970s. Von Vorn Herein,...
Special offer. Krenek: Music For Chamber Orchestra
Agata Zubel (soprano), Mathias Hausmann (baritone)
Leopoldinium Orchestra, Ernest Kovacic
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This imaginative disc puts the early (1931), lusciously part-tonal setting for coloratura and orchestra, Die Nachtigall (verse by Karl Kraus), beside spikier works from the 1970s. Von Vorn Herein,...
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These five works for chamber orchestra by Ernst Krenek (1900–91) were written between 1931 and 1979 – both before and long after Krenek abandoned Hitler’s Austria for California. They demonstrate that serial music, in capable hands, does not have to abandon the virtues of more conservative idioms: the emotions embraced here range from translucent lyricism, via powerful dramatic utterance, to laugh-out-loud humour.
Much of it is, quite simply, very beautiful.
Contents and tracklist
- Leopoldinum Orchestra
- Ernst Kovacic
- Agata Zubel
- Leopoldinum Orchestra
- Ernst Kovacic
- Leopoldinum Orchestra
- Ernst Kovacic
- Leopoldinum Orchestra
- Ernst Kovacic
- Mathias Hausmann
- Leopoldinum Orchestra
- Ernst Kovacic
Awards and reviews
10th June 2012
This imaginative disc puts the early (1931), lusciously part-tonal setting for coloratura and orchestra, Die Nachtigall (verse by Karl Kraus), beside spikier works from the 1970s. Von Vorn Herein, for ensemble, sounds defiantly avant-garde...The 10 short orchestral pieces of Static and Ecstatic bristle with energy.
31st May 2012
This impressively played collection of pieces for chamber orchestra concentrates on his music from the 1970s...there's a real freshness and energy about most of these pieces that's genuinely engaging
