Schreker: Infanta-Suite
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta
Falletta conducts performances that are assured, spontaneous and superbly played, although perhaps not quite as sumptuously recorded as this music deserves. Nevertheless, this is a highly recommendable...
Schreker: Infanta-Suite
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta
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Falletta conducts performances that are assured, spontaneous and superbly played, although perhaps not quite as sumptuously recorded as this music deserves. Nevertheless, this is a highly recommendable...
About
Franz Schreker was a prominent figure in early 20th-century Austro-German music, his reputation as an opera composer rivalling that of Richard Strauss. The Prelude to a Drama is the concert overture of Schreker’s acclaimed opera Die Gezeichneten, a lurid drama involving murder and madness. The Birthday of the Infanta adapts Oscar Wilde’s tragic tale of an ugly dwarf who dies of a broken heart, while the Romantic Suite fully explores the composer’s colourfully detailed and translucent orchestration and lyrical expressiveness.
Contents and tracklist
- Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
- JoAnn Falletta
- Recorded: 19-23 June 2017
- Recording Venue: GroßerSendesaal des RBB, Berlin, Germany
- Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
- JoAnn Falletta
- Recorded: 19-23 June 2017
- Recording Venue: GroßerSendesaal des RBB, Berlin, Germany
Awards and reviews
January 2019
Falletta conducts performances that are assured, spontaneous and superbly played, although perhaps not quite as sumptuously recorded as this music deserves. Nevertheless, this is a highly recommendable release for anyone interested in Schreker’s music.
classicalsource.com November 2018
Another winner from JoAnn Falletta, not this time roaming her Buffalo home, but persuading the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra to conclusively restore the credentials of Austrian composer and conductor Franz Schreker.
Classical Ear November 2018
To hear this underrated composer firing on all cylinders you need to make a beeline to the Prelude to a Drama, a simply magnificent 18-minute tone-poem utilising material from his opera Die Gezeichneten.
