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Austrian composer (1850-1914)
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2020-04-02 09:41:00
Vienna, City of Dreams: Works by Haydn and Schoenberg
(This essay was first published to accompany a Pentatone disc of works by Haydn and Schoenberg, performed by Alisa Weilerstein and the Trondheim Soloists.) Wien, du Stadt meiner Träume (‘Vienna, you city of my dreams’) is the title of a sentimental 1914 song by the Polish composer, Rudolf Sieczyński. One is tempted to anathematise it as the equivalent of a student-wall poster to real Gustav Klimt, a Sachertorte experience to the fractious coffee-house disputes of the era of Arnold Schoenberg and Leon Trotsky (sadly not with each other). Perhaps, though, that is unfair to Sieczyński as well as to Vienna. For dreams are rarely comfortable, often nightmares. They are rarely simple, either, any more than Vienna has ever been. Ask the Klytämnestra of Richard Strauss, one of a host of honorary Viennese more greatly honoured than its ‘own’, Schoenberg perhaps top of that list. […]
2019-08-15 05:07:00
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf: Operetta Arias (CD review)
Otto Ackermann, Philharmonia Orchestra. EMI 7243 5 66989 2 5.If you are like me, one of the joys of owning a large record collection is rediscovering something you haven't played in years. A friend of mine reminded me of this disc when he played a few excerpts from his own copy on the eve of his departure for Sri Lanka. He was heading off for two years in the Peace Corp, his idea of retirement, and since he could only bring a few CDs along with him, he was trying to decide which couple of dozen to take. Ms. Schwarzkopf headed his list. The recording, from 1957 (released in 1959), remains one of the finest things the German-born Austro-British soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (1915-2006) ever did, and she recorded a mountain of marvelous discs. She and her record-producer husband, Walter Legge, were meticulous about every detail of a song and a […]
2018-09-16 23:00:00
Clemens Krauss: The Collection 1929-1954 [CDs 61 - 76]
Clemens Krauss: THE COLLECTION 1929-1954 [97 CDs]Third installment : Discs 61-76Venias VN033 (mono) - No publication date givenDetails of works performed below, and in scanned booklet,available for download with the first installment FLAC image files, cuesheets, logs, scans Clemens Heinrich Krauss was a leading Austrian conductor, particularly associated with the music of Richard Strauss, who got to his major positions by the resignation of conductors less sympathetic to the German Nazi regime.His mother was Clementine Krauss, a leading Viennese actress and singer. He was also related to Gabrielle Krauss (1842 - 1904), an important nineteenth century soprano. His father was a figure in the Austrian Imperial Court. When Clemens went into music, he used his mother's name because of its theatrical history.When he was a boy, he was a chorister in the Hofkapelle (Imperial Choir). He attended the Vienna Conservatory, graduating in 1912. He studied composition with Grädener and theory […]
2018-08-23 23:00:00
Clemens Krauss: The Collection 1929-1954 [CDs 29 - 60]
Clemens Krauss: THE COLLECTION 1929-1954 [97 CDs]Second installment : Discs 29 - 60Venias VN033 (mono) - No publication date givenDetails of works performed below, and in scanned booklet,available for download with the first installment FLAC image files, cuesheets, logs, scans From Music and the Holocaust Abaigh McKeeClemens Krauss was an Austrian conductor and opera impresario who has been called ‘the most powerful man in German opera,’ and a ‘culture leader’ in the Third Reich. Although he was tried and acquitted in the denazification tribunals after the Second World War, Krauss’ career advanced significantly under the Nazi regime, in part because he overtook positions that had previously been held by anti-Nazi conductors. Despite this, Krauss was described by friends as politically indifferent towards the Nazis, and he contributed to an operation run by British sisters Ida and Louise Cook that enabled Jewish families to […]
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