Vienna 1913: Brahms, Berg, Kornauth, Korngold | C-AVI AVI8553517

Vienna 1913: Brahms, Berg, Kornauth, Korngold

£13.25 £11.27

save £1.99 (15%)

special offer ending 04/04/2024

In stock - available for despatch within 1 working day

Label: C-AVI

Cat No: AVI8553517

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 9th December 2022

Contents

Artists

Kilian Herold (clarinet)
Hanjacob Staemmler (piano)

Works

Berg, Alban

Pieces (4) for clarinet and piano, op.5

Brahms, Johannes

Clarinet Sonata no.1 in F minor, op.120 no.1

Kornauth, Egon

Clarinet Sonata, op.5

Korngold, Erich Wolfgang

Abschiedslieder (4) (Songs of Farewell), op.14
» no.1 Sterbelied (arr. Kilian Herold)
Einfache Lieder (6), op.9
» no.4 Liebesbriefchen (A Little Love-Letter) (arr. Kilian Herold)

Artists

Kilian Herold (clarinet)
Hanjacob Staemmler (piano)

About

The year 1913 could be regarded as a kind of focus year of the most interesting upheaval period in the early years of the 20th century. Egon Kornauth's Clarinet Sonata is a discovery of a masterpiece, and appears on record first time ever – a world-premiere recording. Together with Berg's and Korngold's pieces it was published in 1913. For all of them Brahms was a kind of foster father.

The years 1900-1914 were perhaps the most thrilling period in European music history: the cradle of what we now call musical Modernism. This was the time when the great "avant-garde schools" took shape: in Paris, Berlin, Saint Petersburg, and particularly in Vienna. Music branched out into a multitude of aesthetics, styles, and genres, as we can see in in the variety of terms that attempt to describe art in that period: Impressionism, Expressionism, Art Nouveau, Neo-Classicism, Foklorism, Late Romanticism, Symbolism, and others.

Our programme selection for this CD focuses on two works written in Vienna in 1913 – the "summer of the century", as author Florian Illies calls a pivotal year that put an end to the long 19th century and introduced the sombre 20th century. The two works are Alban Berg's Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano, op.5, and Egon Kornauth's Sonata for Clarinet and Piano. 1913 was the year of several "scandalous" premieres: Schoenberg's Gurrelieder, Berg's Altenberg Lieder, Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, and others that were less scandalous: Debussy's Images pour orchestre, Max Reger's Isle of the Dead, Sibelius's Luonnotar, de Falla's La vida breve, and Richard Strauss's Festliches Präludium.

Kilian Herold and Hansjacob Staemmler are both highly regarded soloists and chamber musicians, both are holding a professorship at the Music Academy in Freiburg, Germany.

Reviews

Clarinettist Kilian Herold and pianist Hansjacob Starmmler more than rise to the challenge. They offer a vivid partnership, with a well-sculpted approach to structure, a superb immediacy of response to detail and some colourfully characterised atmospheres – a smooth blend for the Brahms and plenty of sparkle for the Kornauth. The recorded sound is warm and friendly.
BBC Music Magazine

Error on this page? Let us know here

Need more information on this product? Click here