Mendelssohn, Widmann, Korngold - Works for String Orchestra | Channel Classics CCS49225

Mendelssohn, Widmann, Korngold - Works for String Orchestra

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Label: Channel Classics

Cat No: CCS49225

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 3rd October 2025

Contents

Artists

Stuttgarter Kammerorchester

Conductor

Jorg Widmann

Works

Korngold, Erich Wolfgang

Symphonic Serenade in B flat major, op.39

Mendelssohn, Felix

String Symphonies (13)
» no.10 in B minor

Widmann, Jorg

Ikarische Klage

Artists

Stuttgarter Kammerorchester

Conductor

Jorg Widmann

About

Conductor and composer Jörg Widmann leads the Stuttgarter Kammerochester in this album of masterpieces for string orchestra. The precocious Mendelssohn is represented with his String Symphony no.10 in B minor. It consists of a single movement, in which a sweeping slow introduction is followed by an allegro and coda. Widmann’s own Ikarische Klage takes its subject matter from a poem by Baudelaire: "Burnt by the love of beauty / I will not have the sublime honour / of giving my name to the abyss / that will serve as my grave”. On Korngold’s Symphonic Serenade, Widmann says "What a piece, full of glittering magic!". In this work we hear dreams of a real or imaginary Vienna in the time of Mahler or Berg: a vision that looks to the future, is heart-rending but never sentimental.

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