Karl Weigl

Jürgen Bruns, Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz - Karl Weigl: Symphony No. 1, Pictures and Tales (2019)

Jürgen Bruns, Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz - Karl Weigl: Symphony No. 1, Pictures and Tales (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 299 Mb | Total time: 60:36 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Capriccio | # C5365 | Recorded: 2018

I have always viewed Dr. Weigl as one of the best composers of the old generation; one of those continuing the illustrious Viennese tradition' – Arnold Schönberg. This statement indicated that Weigl remained faithful to the late-Romantic aesthetic and use of tonality, shunning the more progressive contemporary trends being explored at the turn of the 20th century, as might be found in the music of Zemlinsky, Reznicek or Franz Schmidt. Weigl's style is well reflected in this programme that pairs the first of his six symphonies (written in 1908) with Pictures and Tales, a suite for small orchestra written in 1922.
Berlin RSO, Thomas Sanderling - Karl Ignaz Weigl: Symphony No.5 'Apocalyptic'; Phantastisches Intermezzo (2001)

Karl Ignaz Weigl: Symphony No.5 'Apocalyptic'; Phantastisches Intermezzo (2001)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, conducted Thomas Sanderling

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 267 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 155 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-CD-1077 | Time: 01:04:24

Karl Weigl’s music demonstrates once again that the great Austrian/German symphonic tradition did not die with Mahler, but continued to thrive well into the 20th century. Weigl (1881-1949) worked under Mahler in Vienna and enjoyed a fine reputation until, as we’ve heard often by now, the Nazi seizure of power, which forced his emigration to America where he died in comparative obscurity. He nevertheless composed a substantial body of orchestral and chamber music, including six symphonies. If this one is typical, it’s a legacy that urgently calls out for wider exposure. Composed in 1945 and dedicated to the memory of President Roosevelt, the “Apocalyptic Symphony” received its premiere in 1968 under Stokowski.
Oliver Triendl, Lina Johnson, Jenaer Philharmonie - Karl Weigl Orchestral Works (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Oliver Triendl, Lina Johnson, Jenaer Philharmonie - Karl Weigl Orchestral Works (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 69:09 minutes | 1,21 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

The orchestral songs by the now almost forgotten Viennese composer and late Romantic Karl Weigl date from 1916, while the Rhapsody for String Orchestra, although dating back to the String Sextet composed in 1906, was composed together with the Piano Concerto only in 1931 and, like the latter, betrays a progressive and yet completely organic, natural development.
Oliver Triendl, Lina Johnson, Jenaer Philharmonie & Simon Gaudenz - Karl Weigl: Orchestral Works (2023)

Oliver Triendl, Lina Johnson, Jenaer Philharmonie & Simon Gaudenz - Karl Weigl: Orchestral Works (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet | 69:05 | 298 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: CPO

The orchestral songs by the now almost forgotten Viennese composer and late Romantic Karl Weigl date from 1916, while the Rhapsody for String Orchestra goes back to the String Sextet composed in 1906, but was composed together with the Piano Concerto only in 1931 and, like the latter, reveals a progressive and yet completely organic, natural development. There are neither radical changes of direction nor any signs of stagnation in Weigl's work. We can perhaps best see where Weigl was to be placed in the New Music of the twenties from the fact that the Composition Prize of the City of Vienna in 1925 was awarded to four prominent artists: Karl Weigl, Franz Schmidt, Alban Berg and Anton Webern. Weigl never reached the dissonant extremes of expression with his language as Alban Berg did, but the works on this release show that he often ventured to the limits of his self-imposed scope. The Piano Concerto is the most unusual and original work on this album and illustrates the transition from the tantalizingly seductive language of Weigl's early Viennese works to a more powerful, definite tone.
Florian Krumpöck & David Fruhwirth - Weigl: Chamber Music (2019)

Florian Krumpöck & David Fruhwirth - Weigl: Chamber Music (2019)
FLAC (tracks) | 01:11:33 | 286 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: CapriccioNR

Somewhere between the first and second decade of the “short” 20th century, the great Viennese musical tradition of Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner, and Mahler supposedly crashed into the limits of tonality and came to a halt. Schoenberg, Webern, and Berg composed anew, now according to what was supposed to be the “historically inevitable” system of atonality. Karl Weigl went on to write marvelously traditional music. Schoenberg wrote in 1938 that “I always considered Dr. Weigl one of the best composers of the old school; one of those who continued the glittering Viennese tradition.” And that is what we hear in abundance in Weigl’s output throughout the genres: His symphonies, his songs, his concertos, his string quartets, and the chamber works for piano, cello, and violin in various combinations.
Raphael Wallfisch - Weigl: Cello Concerto, Cello Sonata & Other Works (2019)

Raphael Wallfisch - Weigl: Cello Concerto, Cello Sonata & Other Works (2019)
FLAC tracks +booklet | 01:03:14 | 349 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: CPO

The works for violoncello by Karl Weigl, a Viennese composer practically forgotten today, qualify as a twofold revelation. First, they offer us an opportunity once again to hear one of the musical voices that was the talk of the town in fin-de-siècle Vienna; second, the CD contains music for violoncello that in its »singability« is clearly modeled on Brahms but does not imitate him. And what is even more remarkable about this production is that its principal work – the Concerto – had never been heard at all until the present recording. In this monumental and expressive concerto Weigl sheds constantly new and impressive light on his melodic material. In contrast to the rather operatic "Love-Song," the "Wild Dance" is a theatrical piece making ample use of flageolets and sul ponticello. The Moderato in A major very simply offers time for a breather before the energetic beginning is repeated and the movement concludes with a fiery and forceful Presto con fuoco. Both works were dedicated to Arturo Toscanini.
Thomas Christian Ensemble - Weigl: String Quartets Nos. 7 & 8 (2020)

Thomas Christian Ensemble - Weigl: String Quartets Nos. 7 & 8 (2020)
FLAC tracks | 00:54:43 | 252 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: CPO

Following Karl Weigls Cello Concerto, cpo are now releasing his last two String Quartets, his seventh and eighth such works, neither of which were performed during his lifetime. The premiere of Quartet No. 7 was held at the Austrian Institute in New York in 1956, seven years after the composers death, and the Concord Quartet premiered Quartet No. 8 at Lincoln Center in New York, in 1973. Weigl completed his penultimate quartet in January 1942 and this work adheres to the finely felt lyricism generally distinguishing his style. It is a work without 'screams' and hardly anything would lead us to suspect that it is not a composition from Weigls years in Vienna. The same cannot be said of his eighth and last quartet. Weigl knew how to shock his listeners without needing to seek refuge in unresolved dissonances. And this quartet indeed is shocking. The first movement is blunt and mysterious at one and the same time. With its dotted motif the fugued development section strives toward a coda that in the end modulates from minor to major without prior warning.
Gottlieb Wallisch, Karl-Heinz Schütz, Birgit Ramsl - The Bird of Life (2022)

Gottlieb Wallisch, Karl-Heinz Schütz, Birgit Ramsl - The Bird of Life (2022)
FLAC tracks | 01:10:03 | 266 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Naxos

During the last decade of the 19th century a generation of central European composers emerged that was to exert a powerful influence on the current of contemporary music. Yet, for the most part, their works for flute remain little known and a number of pieces included in this album are world premieres. Kornauth, Weigl, Mittler and Petyrek were tied to Vienna’s cultural milieu, while others such as Harsányi, Mihalovici and Martinů gravitated to Paris. Prague-born Karel Jirák’s Sonata for Flute and Piano, Op. 32 a is without doubt an important addition to the recorded catalogue of flute music.

Clotilde van Dieren - La chanson du vent (2021)  Music

Posted by Fizzpop at Dec. 10, 2021
Clotilde van Dieren - La chanson du vent (2021)

Clotilde van Dieren - La chanson du vent (2021)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) 190 MB | Cover | 54:10 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 125 MB
Classical, Vocal | Label: Cypres

La mezzo-soprano belge Clotilde Van Dieren étudie le théâtre et le chant au Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles après des études de philosophie. Elle se perfectionna auprès de grands maîtres Sherman Lowe à Venise, Michael Warren à NY, Udo Reinemann à l’Académie Maurice Ravel, Nadine Denize, Christianne Stotijn, Wolfgang Holzmair, Julius Drake, Christophe Prégardien et avec le célèbre duo Mitsuko Shirai et Hartmut Höll à la Hochschule für Musik de Karlsruhe.

Of Poetry and Song: Approaches to the Nineteenth-Century Lied  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by step778 at April 8, 2022
Of Poetry and Song: Approaches to the Nineteenth-Century Lied

Jürgen Thym, Ann C. Fehn, Harry E. Seelig, "Of Poetry and Song: Approaches to the Nineteenth-Century Lied"
English | 2010 | pages: 472 | ISBN: 1580460550 | PDF | 7,5 mb