Special offer. Egon Wellesz: Chamber Music
Gabriela Opacka-Boccadoro (violin), Peter Cigleris (clarinet), Veles Ensemble
You can hear both Austrian expressionism and English pastoralism in these late works, played with extraordinary sensitivity by the Veles Ensemble and friends
Special offer. Egon Wellesz: Chamber Music
Gabriela Opacka-Boccadoro (violin), Peter Cigleris (clarinet), Veles Ensemble
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You can hear both Austrian expressionism and English pastoralism in these late works, played with extraordinary sensitivity by the Veles Ensemble and friends
About
In its mix of tonality, Expressionism and Schoenbergian serialism, the late chamber music of Egon Wellesz (1885–1974) – born in Vienna but an Oxford don for almost four decades – marries the mid-century radicalism of his native city with the lyricism of his adoptive homeland. In the first part of his career Wellesz was best known as a composer of operas, and these chamber works were audibly written by someone with a keen sense of drama: in their primal passion, flawless pacing, arching melodic lines and occasional bursts of humour, one can almost imagine them on stage.
Contents and tracklist
- Veles Ensemble
- Veles Ensemble
- Gabriela Opacka-Boccadoro (violin)
- Veles Ensemble
- Peter Cigleris (clarinet), Gabriela Opacka-Boccadoro (violin)
- Veles Ensemble
- Veles Ensemble
Awards and reviews
April 2023
You can hear both Austrian expressionism and English pastoralism in these late works, played with extraordinary sensitivity by the Veles Ensemble and friends
March 2023
If you want to get to know Egon Wellesz, this would be a good place to start...These are very fine and technically brilliant performances by musicians who must have been encountering this music for the first time and, as far as it is possible to ascertain, seem to relish the sound world of this fascinating composer.
16th February 2023
It’s a sequence of wonderfully spare, atonal miniatures, in which not a note is wasted, and in which the links to Schoenberg’s world are always clear.
