Marx - Orchestral Songs & Choral Works
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Label: Chandos
Cat No: CHAN10505
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 5th January 2009
Contents
Works
BarkaroleBerghymne (Mountain Hymn)
Der bescheidene Schafer (The unassuming Shepherd)
Ein Neujahrshymnus (A New Year's Hymn)
Hat dich die Liebe beruhrt (If love hath entered thy heart)
Herbstchor an Pan (Autumn Chorus to Pan)
Maienbluten (May Blossoms)
Marienlied (Song of Mary)
Morgengesang (Morning Chant)
Piemontesisches Volkslied (Piemontsian Folk Song)
Selige Nacht
Sommerlied (Summer Song)
Standchen
Und gestern hat er mir Rosen gebracht (He brought me Roses yesterday)
Waldseligkeit (Bliss in the Woods)
Zigeuner (Gypsy)
Artists
Christine Brewer (soprano)Trinity Boys Choir
Apollo Voices
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Jiri BelohlavekWorks
BarkaroleBerghymne (Mountain Hymn)
Der bescheidene Schafer (The unassuming Shepherd)
Ein Neujahrshymnus (A New Year's Hymn)
Hat dich die Liebe beruhrt (If love hath entered thy heart)
Herbstchor an Pan (Autumn Chorus to Pan)
Maienbluten (May Blossoms)
Marienlied (Song of Mary)
Morgengesang (Morning Chant)
Piemontesisches Volkslied (Piemontsian Folk Song)
Selige Nacht
Sommerlied (Summer Song)
Standchen
Und gestern hat er mir Rosen gebracht (He brought me Roses yesterday)
Waldseligkeit (Bliss in the Woods)
Zigeuner (Gypsy)
Artists
Christine Brewer (soprano)Trinity Boys Choir
Apollo Voices
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Jiri BelohlavekAbout
The ‘Marx style’ is unmistakable. It is characterised by a highly personal compositional technique displaying a polyphonic harmony of full sonority, allied to masterly contrapuntal skills and frequent key changes which occur apparently at random but are in fact distributed with utter logic. The music strikes the listener as timeless, refreshingly modern and, above all, surprising, able to exploit tonal means of expression to the full and raise the spirits of every true lover of melody.
Jiří Bělohlávek here conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in the long overdue premiere of four choral works, along with the first complete recording of Marx’s orchestral songs for soprano, performed by Christine Brewer.
Three works are of particular note. Herbstchor an Pan, a single-movement cantata written in 1911, lasts very nearly twenty minutes and was Marx’s first, and for many years only, orchestral composition. It has inexplicably fallen into oblivion in the past five decades. However, it has turned out to be one of the masterpieces of its entire era. Ein Neujahrshymnus (A Hymn for the New Year) is richly orchestrated and demonstrates the profound romantic vein of Joseph Marx; it is here performed for the first time in its orchestral version. This disc represents not only the first recording of Berghymne but also its world premiere performance.
Songs: Barkarole / Der bescheidene Schäfer / Hat dich die Liebe berührt / Maienblüten / Marienlied / Piemontesisches Volkslied / Selige Nacht / Sommerlied / Ständchen / Und gestern hat er mir Rosen gebracht / Waldseligkeit / Zigeuner
Choral Works: Herbstchor an Pan / Ein Neujahrshymnus / Berghymne / Morgengesang
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