Alexander von Zemlinsky: Lyrische Symphonie in 7 Gesängen op.18 (CD)

Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871-1942)

Mit weiteren Werken von: Alban Berg (1885-1935)

Contributors: Roman Trekel, Twyla Robinson, Houston Symphony Orchestra, Hans Graf

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+Berg: 3 Stücke aus der Lyrischen Suite für Streichorchester

Artists:: Roman Trekel, Twyla Robinson, Houston Symphony Orchestra, Hans Graf
Label:: Naxos
Year of recording ca.:: 2007
Item number:: 1045060
UPC/EAN:: 0747313204878
Release date:: 25.5.2009

Alexander von Zemlinsky's best known work, the seductive Lyric Symphony, inspired Alban Berg, who quoted its third movement in his own Lyric Suite, three movements of which Berg himself arranged for string orchestra. Described by Theodor Adorno as "a latent opera", Berg's masterpiece was publicly dedicated to Zemlinsky but carried a secret programme: his illicit love for Hanna Fuchs-Robettin. Zemlinsky's richly scored symphony, a late-Romantic song cycle by any other name, recalls both Mahler's Song of the Earth (8.550933) and Schoenberg's Gurre-Lieder (8.557518-19)."

Reviews

Audio 09/09: "Hans Graf ist zwar kein Magier am Pult, führt das Houston Symphony aber zu festem, erdigem Ton, der gut zur Aura des Stücks passt. Sehr gut: die Gesangssoli."