Von Einem - Philadephia Symphony, Geistliche Sonata, Stundenlied
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Label: Orfeo
Cat No: C929181A
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 16th March 2018
Contents
Artists
Ildiko Raimondi (soprano)Iveta Apkalna (organ)
Gabor Boldoczki (trumpet)
Wiener Singverein
Wiener Philharmoniker
Conductor
Franz Welser-MostWorks
Geistliche Sonate, op.38Philadelphia Symphony, op.28
Stundenlied, op.26
Artists
Ildiko Raimondi (soprano)Iveta Apkalna (organ)
Gabor Boldoczki (trumpet)
Wiener Singverein
Wiener Philharmoniker
Conductor
Franz Welser-MostAbout
The earliest work on this new release is the choral work Stundenlied, which originates from a highly interesting cultural and historical source: a collaboration with the playwright Bertolt Brecht who from 1949 lived in the German Democratic Republic. The story of Christ’s Passion is witnessed and presented in a popular, naive way as a dreadful event and brilliantly depicted by von Einem using simple and stringent compositional means to produce a work that is haunting and authoritative, performed here by the Singverein and Philharmonic Orchestra of Vienna under Franz Welser-Möst.
Written between 1962 and 1973, his 'Geistliche' Sonate (sacred sonata) for soprano, trumpet and organ, is in a quite different category, with scoring in which the composer unites contrapuntal concentration in the layout with tense expressivity. This is music that comes alive in an impressive way thanks to the expressive skills of the soprano, the Baltic concert organist and the phenomenal world-class trumpeter.
Finally, we hear the Philadelphia Symphony, a work named after the city where it was commissioned and where it was originally intended to have been premiered; after some discord it was actually premiered in the Musikvereinssaal in Vienna in 1961 with the city’s Philharmonic under Sir Georg Solti. It is now to be heard in the very same venue under Franz Welser-Möst, who has plenty of stateside experience to offer. Conceived in the dimensions of a three-movement Haydn symphony, this work wins over the audience with its modern ingenuity and suggests that, even today, post-modernism can boast a long and fruitful history.
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