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Eisler: Leipzig Symphony

World premiere recording

MDR Sinfonieorchester, Kammersymphonie Berlin, Jurgen Bruns

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The score, composed by Hans Eisler, is a tender and dignified accompaniment and one of three jewels on a disc of new recordings by Leipzig and berlin orchestras under Jurgen Bruns…Sublime and...

Eisler: Leipzig Symphony

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MDR Sinfonieorchester, Kammersymphonie Berlin, Jurgen Bruns

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The score, composed by Hans Eisler, is a tender and dignified accompaniment and one of three jewels on a disc of new recordings by Leipzig and berlin orchestras under Jurgen Bruns…Sublime and...

About

In his late years Hanns Eisler concentrated more and more on compiling his film music scores for the concert hall. That's the case also with his Leipzig Symphony which was not completed when he died. The at that time young composer Thilo Medek recognized this gap and completed the symphony with different pieces out of Eislers film music scores. The compilation of Funeral pieces from Film Music scores was realized by Tobias Faßhauer and Jürgen Bruns in 2015. The scores use film music from the 1947/48 Hollywood movie ‘So Well Remembered.’ At the end of 1955 Eisler wrote the music for the KZ Documentary Nuit et brouillard (Night and Fog) for the French movie director Alain Resnais (1922–2014). After many successful concert performances (with and without film) this piece can now be listened to for the first time on album.

Contents and tracklist

I. Vorspiel und Idylle. Bewegte Halbe
Track length5:08
II. Con moto I
Track length8:21
III. Con moto II
Track length2:52
IV. Marsch ohne Worte
Track length3:13
I. Molto moderato – Largo
Track length1:40
II. Andante
Track length1:45
III. Moderato
Track length0:44
IV. Largetto
Track length1:31
V. Moderato
Track length0:56
VI. Andante cantabile
Track length2:00
VII. Poco moderato
Track length0:29
VIII. Moderato
Track length2:31
IX. Molto moderato – Largo
Track length1:55
Largo
Track length1:11
Andante [I]
Track length1:06
[Ohne Bezeichnung]
Track length0:30
Andante [II]
Track length3:29
Allegretto
Track length2:51
Andante [III]
Track length0:23
Molto Andante
Track length3:27
Allegro
Track length2:52
Andante [IV]
Track length2:04
Andante [Herr Himmler]
Track length1:08
Lento
Track length2:36
Andante, ma non troppo
Track length1:47
Andante - Largo
Track length4:14

Awards and reviews

  • Opus Klassik Awards
    2020
    Nominee - Conductor of the Year

December 2019

The score, composed by Hans Eisler, is a tender and dignified accompaniment and one of three jewels on a disc of new recordings by Leipzig and berlin orchestras under Jurgen Bruns…Sublime and haunting.

February 2020

A very fine disc, one which will enhance any collection of Hanns Eisler’s music and of late twentieth century music as a whole.

classicalsource.com September 2019

Nuit et brouillard makes it an essential album for everyone who cares about twentieth-century history and music, and humankind’s inhumanity.

March 2020

there’s some superb music here if you’re an Eisler aficionado … Jürgen Bruns draws punch playing from the two ensembles, with some full-blooded string playing.

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