Krenek - Music for Chamber Orchestra | Toccata Classics TOCC0125

Krenek - Music for Chamber Orchestra

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Label: Toccata Classics

Cat No: TOCC0125

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 28th May 2012

Contents

Artists

Agata Zubel (soprano)
Mathias Hausmann (baritone)
Leopoldinium Orchestra

Conductor

Ernest Kovacic

Works

Krenek, Ernst

Die Nachtigall, op.68a
Im Tal der Zeit, op.232
Static and Ecstatic, op.214
The Dissembler, op.229
Von vorn herein, op.219

Artists

Agata Zubel (soprano)
Mathias Hausmann (baritone)
Leopoldinium Orchestra

Conductor

Ernest Kovacic

About

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.

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