Composer: Franz Schreker, Alexander von Zemlinsky
Performer: Karan Armstrong, Roland Hermann
Orchestra: ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Michael Gielen
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Orfeo
Catalogue: C210241
Release: 2021
Size: 645 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Zemlinsky: Lyric Symphony Op. 18 (Live)
01. I. Ich bin friedlos
02. II. Mutter, der junge Prinz
03. III. Du bist die Abendwolke
04. IV. Sprich zu mir, Geliebter
05. V. Befrei’ mich von den Banden
06. VI. Vollende denn das letzte Lied
07. VII. Friede, mein Herz
08. Schreker: Prelude to a Drama (Live)
Alexander Zemlinsky composed his Lyric Symphony, Op. 18 for soprano, baritone and orchestra during his time as musical director of the New German Theatre in Prague, where he had moved in 1911 from Vienna. It was generally regarded as his corresponding equivalent to Mahler’s Lied von der Erde and is based on Nobel Prize laureate and most important representative of modern Indian literature Rabindranath Tagore. The work is combined with the befriended and three years older “phantasmogorist” Franz Schreker’s Prelude to a Drama, which is a version of the overture of his Die Gezeichneten. It might be considered symptomatic for the most notable characteristic of Schreker’s music: the dominance of chordal sounds over the melodic element.