Schillings - Das Hexenlied | CPO 9992332

Schillings - Das Hexenlied

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Label: CPO

Cat No: 9992332

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 27th September 2019

Contents

Artists

Elisabeth Glass (violin)
Alban Gerhardt (cello)
Martha Modl (speaker)
Kolner Rundfunkorchester

Conductor

Jan Stulen

Works

Schillings, Max von

Dance of the Flowers
Das Hexenlied, op.15
Ein Zwiegesprach, op.8
Symphonic Prologue, op.11

Artists

Elisabeth Glass (violin)
Alban Gerhardt (cello)
Martha Modl (speaker)
Kolner Rundfunkorchester

Conductor

Jan Stulen

About

When Max von Schillings died in Berlin on 24 July 1933, a very German musician’s life reached its end. Wilhelm Furtwängler, writing in memory of his teacher, who “next to Strauss and Pfitzner" was regarded “as Wagner’s most significant successor and continuator”, accurately described his role when he stated “that he was one of the very few prominent composers of that epoch, also as a German musician conscious of culture and tradition”. This statement perfectly captures the place in music history fated for Schillings, with its strengths and weaknesses. Today the former fame of this late Romanticist born in Düren in 1868 has faded and his music is almost entirely forgotten, and since the 1930s hardly anything has been published about him. Therefore, we are particularly happy once again to rescue his music from oblivion with the present CD – in particular with the Hexenlied (Witch’s Song), op.15, to a ballad by Ernst von Wildenbruch; premiered in 1902 and presented as an orchestral version in Basel in 1903, this work soon enjoyed great popularity. The Symphonic Prologue to Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, op.11, A Dialogue for Violin, Cello, and Small Orchestra, op.8, and the Dance of the Flowers also offer rewarding opportunities for occupation with the music of Max von Schillings.

Recorded November 1991 & May 1992

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