Cerha: Cello Concerto, Schreker: Chamber Symphony
Copy at Case Memorial Library
Russell Platt wrote in the New Yorker: "When Franz Schreker composed his Chamber Symphony, for the faculty of Vienna’s Academy of Music and the Performing Arts, his country was embroiled in the carnage of the First World War. You would never know it, however, from the limpid swirl of sound that Schreker produced in this astonishing twenty-five-minute piece. Peter Eötvös and the Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra (on ECM) turn in a shimmering performance that reveals that Schreker’s sole symphony is really a tone poem in disguise, a journey that seems to end up where it began. Filling out the disk is a powerful interpretation (with the master cellist Heinrich Schiff) of the compellingly eclectic Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra (1989-96) by Friedrich Cerha, the doyen of contemporary Viennese composers" ("Classical Notes: Vienna Blood," 9/15/08, p. 23).
From the CD notes by H.-K. Jungheinrich: "With its tight construction and elaborate nexus of allusions, Cerha's music is far removed from any form of minimalism or neo-primitivism. …"
Russell Platt wrote in the New Yorker: "When Franz Schreker composed his Chamber Symphony, for the faculty of Vienna’s Academy of Music and the Performing Arts, his country was embroiled in the carnage of the First World War. You would never know it, however, from the limpid swirl of sound that Schreker produced in this astonishing twenty-five-minute piece. Peter Eötvös and the Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra (on ECM) turn in a shimmering performance that reveals that Schreker’s sole symphony is really a tone poem in disguise, a journey that seems to end up where it began. Filling out the disk is a powerful interpretation (with the master cellist Heinrich Schiff) of the compellingly eclectic Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra (1989-96) by Friedrich Cerha, the doyen of contemporary Viennese composers" ("Classical Notes: Vienna Blood," 9/15/08, p. 23).
From the CD notes by H.-K. Jungheinrich: "With its tight construction and elaborate nexus of allusions, Cerha's music is far removed from any form of minimalism or neo-primitivism. …"
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