Britten - War Requiem; Berg - Violin Concerto
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 95354
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Release Date: 22nd April 2016
Contents
Works
Violin Concerto 'To the Memory of an Angel'War Requiem, op.66
Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima
Artists
Manfred Scherzer (violin)Kari Lovaas (soprano)
Anthony Roden (tenor)
Theo Adam (bass-baritone)
Rundfunkchor Leipzig
Dresdner Kapellknaben
Dresdner Philharmonie
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig
Conductor
Herbert KegelWorks
Violin Concerto 'To the Memory of an Angel'War Requiem, op.66
Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima
Artists
Manfred Scherzer (violin)Kari Lovaas (soprano)
Anthony Roden (tenor)
Theo Adam (bass-baritone)
Rundfunkchor Leipzig
Dresdner Kapellknaben
Dresdner Philharmonie
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig
Conductor
Herbert KegelAbout
When Kegel returned to the work in 1989 he recorded it in the original English (and Latin); the set became a memorial to him, after his suicide in Dresden the following year. It is a measured and deeply considered performance, in which the consolation offered by the composer’s own recording on Decca is – or so it seems with hindsight – rejected for a bleaker vision of man’s inhumanity to man: an impression only intensified by Kegel’s chosen coupling of that other, outraged, 60s lament for pacifism, Penderecki’s Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima. ‘An alert, clear‐sighted and well‐balanced interpretation,’ noted Rob Cowan in Gramophone in April 2002, and so it is. The experience of its context, however, lends it a frisson not available to any other recording: made on the other side of the Iron Curtain that had been built by decades of conflict between Germany and the rest of Europe, in the dying days of the Cold War.
The Berg Concerto here is likewise Kegel’s second recording of a personal elegy (the first, with the Hungarian violinist György Garay, has never appeared on CD). The soloist here is Manfred Scherzer, another musical son of Dresden (1933‐2013).
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