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Tamás Kocsis, Ulster Orchestra & Jac van Steen - Kurt Weill: Symphony No. 2 & Violin Concerto, Op.12 (2022)

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Tamás Kocsis, Ulster Orchestra & Jac van Steen - Kurt Weill: Symphony No. 2 & Violin Concerto, Op.12 (2022)

Tamás Kocsis, Ulster Orchestra & Jac van Steen - Kurt Weill: Symphony No. 2 & Violin Concerto, Op.12 (2022)
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Classical | Label: SOMM Recordings

SOMM Recordings celebrates the mastery of a 20th-century original with superb new recordings of Kurt Weill’s Violin Concerto and Second Symphony by Tamás Kocsis and the Ulster Orchestra conducted by Jac van Steen.

Although Weill found fame in theatre-focused collaborations with Bertolt Brecht that produced the era-defining The Threepenny Opera, the onetime pupil of Ferruccio Busoni straddled the worlds of music-theatre, jazz, and the concert hall with music of daring aplomb and dazzling achievement.

Dedicated to Joseph Szigeti, his five-movement Violin Concerto of 1924 also pays tribute to the ailing Busoni and sports discernible allusions to Stravinsky, Mahler and the potent popular music of Weimar Berlin’s cabaret clubs. A unique blend, as Robert Matthew-Walker comments in his authoritative booklet notes: “No comparable work had appeared before from any composer”.

Composed a decade later, the Second Symphony was premiered by Bruno Walter and the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam. In three movements, “Weill’s contrapuntal mastery and his equally unselfconscious command of instrumentation present us with genuinely symphonic music, such as a 20th-century Haydn would have appreciated and enjoyed”.
Tracklist:
1. Ulster Orchestra & Jac van Steen – Symphony No. 2: I. Sostenuto – Allegro molto (09:54)
2. Ulster Orchestra & Jac van Steen – Symphony No. 2: II. Largo (11:51)
3. Ulster Orchestra & Jac van Steen – Symphony No. 2: III. Allegro vivace (06:42)
4. Tamás Kocsis, Ulster Orchestra & Jac van Steen – Violin Concerto, Op. 12: I. Andante con moto (10:52)
5. Tamás Kocsis, Ulster Orchestra & Jac van Steen – Violin Concerto, Op. 12: IIa. Notturno. Allegro un poco tenuto (03:41)
6. Tamás Kocsis, Ulster Orchestra & Jac van Steen – Violin Concerto, Op. 12: IIb. Cadenza. Moderato (03:29)
7. Tamás Kocsis, Ulster Orchestra & Jac van Steen – Violin Concerto, Op. 12: IIc. Serenata. Allegretto (03:32)
8. Tamás Kocsis, Ulster Orchestra & Jac van Steen – Violin Concerto, Op. 12: III. Allegro molto, un poco agitato (07:19)

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