Weill: Orchestral Works

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The SCO brings out the bittersweet melodies in the first movement [of the Fantaisie Symphonique] and displays restraint in the expansive Largo...Excerpts [from Der Silbersee] are featured here,... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2023, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Release Date: 3rd Mar 2023
Catalogue No: BIS2579
Label: BIS
Length: 58 minutes

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Weill, K: Der Silbersee: excerpts

Work length12:36

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Swedish Chamber Orchestra
Heinz Karl Gruber

Overture

Track length2:49

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No. 3, Der Bäcker backt ums Morgenrot

Track length3:32

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Spoken Introduction to Was zahlen Sie

Track length0:51

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No. 7, Was zahlen Sie für einen Rat

Track length5:24

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Weill, K: Symphony No. 1 in one movement 'Berliner Symphony'

Work length19:09

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Swedish Chamber Orchestra
Heinz Karl Gruber

Weill, K: Symphony No. 2 'Symphonic Fantasy'

Work length26:36

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Swedish Chamber Orchestra
Heinz Karl Gruber

I. Sostenuto - Allegro molto

Track length8:44

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II. Largo

Track length10:57

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III. Allegro vivace - Presto

Track length6:55

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"Although Kurt Weill’s principal legacy lies in music theatre works of both popular appeal and intellectual weight, he was equally at home in purely orchestral works as evidenced by his two symphonies. Written just over a decade apart, they reveal his chameleon-like ability to work with any range of style and form. The Symphonie in einem Satz (Symphony in one movement), completed when he was barely 21, adopts an expressionist idiom that shows intricate writing, dense counterpoint and quick shifts reminiscent of Schoenberg's First Chamber Symphony. Completed in France in 1934 after Weill had to flee Nazi Germany, the Fantaisie symphonique is filled with allusions to the 'sung ballet' The Seven Deadly Sins, composed at the same time. Opening the programme is a selection from the ‘play with music’ Der Silbersee (The Silver Lake), a commentary on commercial greed. As in The Threepenny Opera, the vocal parts were composed for singing actors rather than opera singers. Steeped in the world of Weill, conductor, composer and chansonnier HK Gruber performs the songs himself in his own inimitable way, giving an unusual authenticity to the interpretations."

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June 2023

The SCO brings out the bittersweet melodies in the first movement [of the Fantaisie Symphonique] and displays restraint in the expansive Largo...Excerpts [from Der Silbersee] are featured here, with spoken and sung parts taken up by SCO conductor HK Gruber, whose diction and delivery is flawless.

Sep/Oct 2023

[Symphony No. 1] With its attention-riveting sense of color, its exceptionally clear counterpoint, its willingness to take on the music’s brutality, and most of all, its high energy, this is a performance that grabs you in the opening measures—and pulls you all the way to the surprisingly inconclusive ending…The performance of the Second Symphony is equally compelling.

July 2023

This is musicmaking that really does feel like it’s telling a story, enhanced by the lucid, precisiontooled virtuosity of the Stockholm players and Gruber’s ability to pace and place forceful climaxes, as well as Weill’s oases of overcast lyricism.

Weill: Orchestral Works

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