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Susanna Mälkki, Gerd Albrecht - Alexander Zemlinsky: Sinfonietta, Maeterlinck-Songs, Der König Kandaules (2020)

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Susanna Mälkki, Gerd Albrecht - Alexander Zemlinsky: Sinfonietta, Maeterlinck-Songs, Der König Kandaules (2020)

Susanna Mälkki, Gerd Albrecht, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra - Alexander Zemlinsky: Sinfonietta, Maeterlinck-Songs, Der König Kandaules (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 198 Mb | Total time: 49:13 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Capriccio | # C5377 | Recorded: 1992, 2019

“I just heard your wonderful Sinfonietta: hope this is the beginning of your American success,” wrote Arnold Schönberg to Zemlinsky. But Zemlinsky was already suffering from the effects of a stroke and died alone in New York just a few days later. In his Sinfonietta, Op. 24 (1934) he reused a short theme from the last of his Maeterlinck-Songs, Op. 13 (1913), “Wohin gehst Du?” (Where are you going?), a theme of “self-doubts” and “farewell” from a time when Zemlinsky was beginning to observe growing anti-Jewish sentiments in Vienna. The Maeterlinck-Songs were praised as “the center of his output” by Theodor Adorno, and transport the listener to a mystic world concerned with life, evanescence and death.

Lapland CO, John Storgards, Jenny Carlstedt - Alexander von Zemlinsky: Seven Songs; Chamber Symphony (2016)

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Lapland CO, John Storgards, Jenny Carlstedt - Alexander von Zemlinsky: Seven Songs; Chamber Symphony (2016)

Alexander von Zemlinsky: Seven Songs of Night and Dream; Chamber Symphony (2016)
Lapland Chamber Orchestra; John Storgårds, conductor; Jenny Carlstedt, mezzo-soprano

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 263 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 145 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Ondine | # ODE 1272-2 | Time: 01:01:22

Ondine is proud to release these world premiere recordings of two new Zemlinsky arrangements by Richard Dünser (b. 1959) with Lapland Chamber Orchestra conducted by John Storgårds. The works of Austrian composer Alexander Zemlinsky (1871-1942) - much admired by composers such as Mahler, Schoenberg and Berg - have gained more attention during the last decades. He wrote only 27 works with an opus number, but several of them can be considered among 20th century masterpieces. In 2013 composer Richard Dünser (b. 1959), pupil of Francis Burt and Hans Werner Henze, made two new rich arrangements of works by Zemlinsky. Seven Songs of Night and Dream (Sieben Lieder von Nacht und Traum) is an orchestration of songs from opp. 2, 5, 6, 8 and 10 based on the themes of night and dream. In this recording the songs are sung by mezzo-soprano Jenny Carlstedt. Chamber Symphony is a 40-minute orchestration of Zemlinsky's String Quartet No. 2. In this orchestration the limitations of a string quartet is set free by using a larger ensemble. Zemlinsky's String Quartet contains references to the works of his most famous pupil, Arnold Schoenberg.

Sandrine Piau, Jean-François Verdier, Orchestre Victor Hugo - Clair-Obscur: Strauss, Berg, Zemlinsky (2021)

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Sandrine Piau, Jean-François Verdier, Orchestre Victor Hugo - Clair-Obscur: Strauss, Berg, Zemlinsky (2021)

Sandrine Piau, Jean-François Verdier, Orchestre Victor Hugo - Clair-Obscur: Strauss, Berg, Zemlinsky (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 233 Mb | Total time: 50:44 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics | # ALPHA 727 | Recorded: 2020

'The dreamer! That double of our existence, that chiaroscuro of the thinking being', wrote Gaston Bachelard in 1961. 'The old is dying, the new cannot be born, and in that chiaroscuro, monsters appear', adds Antonio Gramsci. Sandrine Piau has chosen to use these two quotations as an epigraph to her new recording: 'My family and friends know about this obsession that never leaves me completely. The antagonism between light and darkness. The chiaroscuro, the space in between…'

Berlin RSO, Riccardo Chailly - Alexander von Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau (The Mermaid); Psalm XIII, Op. 24 (1987)

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Berlin RSO, Riccardo Chailly - Alexander von Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau (The Mermaid); Psalm XIII, Op. 24 (1987)

Alexander von Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau (The Mermaid); Psalm XIII, Op. 24 (1987)
Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin; Kammerchor Ernst Senff; Riccardo Chailly, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 239 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 124 Mb | Scans ~ 71 Mb
Genre: Classical | Label: Decca | # 417 450-2 | Time: 00:54:12

Zemlinsky's Die Seejungfrau ("The mermaid") is a three-movement symphonic fantasy based on the Hans Andersen story. It was first performed (under the composer's direction) in 1905, and is thus a good deal earlier than the works that have recently excited renewed interest in him—the oneact operas Eine florentinische TragOdie (1916) and Der Zwerg (1921), and the exquisite Lyric Symphony of 1922. In its masterly handling of a large orchestra, however, and of an episodic but firm structure, it is a far from immature piece. Zemlinsky was 34 when he wrote it, after all. If his list of works were not in such a terrible mess—many are unpublished; several, including the present work, were until recently thought to be lost—Die Seejungfrau would count as his Op. 30 or thereabouts.

Berlin RSO, Kammerchor Ernst Senff, Riccardo Chailly - Alexander von Zemlinsky: Symphony In B-flat, Psalm 23 (1988)

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Berlin RSO, Kammerchor Ernst Senff, Riccardo Chailly - Alexander von Zemlinsky: Symphony In B-flat, Psalm 23 (1988)

Alexander von Zemlinsky: Symphony In B-flat, Psalm 23 (1988)
Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Kammerchor Ernst Senff, conducted by Riccardo Chailly

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 234 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 129 Mb | Scans ~ 45 Mb
Genre: Classical | Label: Decca | # 421 644-2 | Time: 00:55:54

During the four years that separated Alexander Zemlinsky's Symphony in D minor and the premiere of the Symphony in B flat major (his first two efforts in the genre, aside from an incomplete work penned during his student years), the young composer had caught the eye and the fancy of the Viennese musical world. "The work's fresh, original ideas and genuinely exalted, youthful fire made a great impression on the audience and unleashed an intense salvo of applause," wrote one critic in response to the 1896 premiere of Zemlinsky's Waldegespräch (for soprano and chamber ensemble). These years also saw Zemlinsky winning two prestigious awards, the Luitpold Prize and the Beethoven Prize. His compositional skills had been refined during the mid 1890s as well. The Suite for Orchestra from 1895, for example, gave Zemlinsky an opportunity to create more adventurous orchestral colors than had been found in the admirable but conservative D minor Symphony. Thus, when one compares the B flat Symphony to his earlier symphonic effort, one notices that, while the same amalgamation of influences and styles is represented, more of the composer's own voice comes through – prompting one observer to suggest two different ways of looking at the work: "either as Zemlinsky's last early work or his first mature one."

Vasily Petrenko, Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau; Schreker: Der Geburtstag der Infantin (2021)

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Vasily Petrenko, Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau; Schreker: Der Geburtstag der Infantin (2021)

Vasily Petrenko, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau; Schreker: Der Geburtstag der Infantin (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 305 Mb | Total time: 78:30 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Onyx Classics | # ONYX 4197 | Recorded: 2019, 2020

Following on from their critically acclaimed albums of Stravinsky, Elgar and Tchaikovsky, the award winning team of Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra turn to Zemlinsky and Schreker. Premiered in 1905, Zemlinsky's Die Seejungfrau (after Hans Christian Andersen) was almost ignored by the reviewers. Considered too conservative for the progressives, and too progressive for the conservatives, Zemlinsky struggled to overcome the negative reviews of this masterpiece and withdrew it in the immediate aftermath of the premiere. Vasily Petrenko for this recording uses the original version of the score which restores the "bei der Meerhexe" episode to the 2nd movement. One of the most progressive of the Viennese composers of this period, Schreker's dance pantomime Der Guburtstag der Infantine (story by Oscar Wilde) was given it's premiere in 1908 and was his first big success.

Barbara Hannigan, Reinbert de Leeuw - Vienna. Fin de Siècle (2018)

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Barbara Hannigan, Reinbert de Leeuw - Vienna. Fin de Siècle (2018)

Barbara Hannigan, Reinbert de Leeuw - Vienna. Fin de Siècle (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 287 Mb | Total time: 77:41 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics | ALPHA 393 | Recorded: 2017

Soprano Barbara Hannigan has become something of a cult favorite with her deep dives into specific and unusual repertories. Her self-presentation in concert is unorthodox and marked by full-scale efforts to communicate the essence of the music at hand, in works ranging from Berio to Gershwin. So it is with this set of songs from the decade and a half on either side of 1900 in Vienna. The enjoyment begins with the physically passionate cover, an example of her way of personifying the music's spirit. Hannigan's is an utterly distinctive voice, edgy and coruscating, and she knows how to tone down her considerable virtuosic powers to the dimensions of the music, such as that here, intended for small rooms.