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Vasily Petrenko, Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau; Schreker: Der Geburtstag der Infantin (2021) Music

Posted by ArlegZ at Jan. 28, 2022

Following on from their critically acclaimed albums of Stravinsky, Elgar and Tchaikovsky, the award winning team of Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra turn to Zemlinsky and Schreker. Premiered in 1905, Zemlinsky's Die Seejungfrau (after Hans Christian Andersen) was almost ignored by the reviewers. Considered too conservative for the progressives, and too progressive for the conservatives, Zemlinsky struggled to overcome the negative reviews of this masterpiece and withdrew it in the immediate aftermath of the premiere. Vasily Petrenko for this recording uses the original version of the score which restores the "bei der Meerhexe" episode to the 2nd movement. One of the most progressive of the Viennese composers of this period, Schreker's dance pantomime Der Guburtstag der Infantine (story by Oscar Wilde) was given it's premiere in 1908 and was his first big success.

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Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau, Schreker (2021) [Official Digital Download] Vinyl & HR

Posted by ciklon5 at Aug. 9, 2022

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau, Schreker (2021) [Official Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks), Lossless [24bit-96kHz] +Booklet | 1:18:98 | 1,3 Gb
Genre: Classical / Label: PM Classics Ltd.

In Vienna, Alexander Zemlinsky and Franz Schreker conducted experiments that could be seen as a middle road between the rigorous writing of Brahms, the orchestral opulence of Richard Strauss and the dodecaphonic radicalism of Schönberg, Berg and Webern. Unfortunately their experiments were cut short when the Nazis came to power and banned their music. Vasily Petrenko's colourful and imaginative conducting reminds us of these two composers' central importance for the history of early 20th-century music.

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