Composer: Egon Wellesz
Performer: Christine Whittlesey, Adrian Eröd, Josef Hell, Ensemble Kontrapunkte
Conductor: Peter Keuschnig
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: CPO
Catalogue: 777575-2
Release: 2010
Size: 252 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Sommernacht
02. Satz
03. Persisches Ballett, Op. 30
Suite for Violin & Chamber Orchestra, Op. 38
04. I. Moderato
05. II. Adagio
06. III. Largo
07. IV. Allegretto
4 Songs of Return, Op. 85
08. No. 1, Where Suddenly the Wanderer Comes
09. No. 2, Separate the Shrivell’d Moon and Sightless Rides
10. No. 3, The Stubble Was Pale
11. No. 4, Befriend Us Fortune
12. Ode an die Musik, Op. 92
Egon Wellesz was a very important early twentieth-century composer who studied under Schönberg, but pursued his own path and turned to writing free, expressive tonal music more in the style of Bruckner and Mahler.
CPO has released his complete Symphonies (box set 7771832) that he wrote during English exile after 1945. On this new recording CPO release some of Wellesz’s earlier music of the interwar period. All are World Premiere Recordings! His one-act Persian Ballet from the 1920s is an absolute listening must!