Klenau - Concertos, Symphony no.8
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Label: Dacapo
Cat No: 8224744
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 26th May 2023
Contents
Artists
Ziyu He (violin)Soren Rastogi (piano)
Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Hans GrafWorks
Piano ConcertoSymphony no.8
Violin Concerto
Artists
Ziyu He (violin)Soren Rastogi (piano)
Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Hans GrafAbout
Paul von Klenau (1883-1946) was a controversial figure in Danish music life. Although being highly productive, he and his music disappeared from view after his death in kind of collective amnesia.
At age 19, he travelled to Germany, where he settled and established a succesful career as a conductor and composer. Though he never joined the party, he expressed views that aligned with those of the Nazis.
This album features three world-premiere recordings. The works were found amongst his surviving papers in 2005 and none of them had been performed during Klenau's lifetime.
The Piano Concerto is built upon Klenau's "key-determined twelve-tone system", but comes across as classical with elements familiar in tonally-based music. A personal work, which plays out his situation during the Second World War.
The Symphony no.8 is written "in the old style" with a Rococo spirit: light, cheerful and playful. The work was maybe just as much an exercise for his own pleasure, as he didn't try to have it performed or published, but there is much more in the music than just a stylistic exercise.
The Violin Concerto is a twelve-tone work according to Klenau himself, but its musical expression is more late Romantic in style.
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