Walter Braunfels: Orchestral Songs Volume 1

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Albrecht’s conducting is fierce and passionate…Valentina Farcas negotiates the Nightingale’s Zerbinetta-ish coloratura with ravishing tone and delightful ease; Klaus Florian Vogt is clean and... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2016 More…

Release Date: 27th May 2016
Catalogue No: OC1846
Label: Oehms
Length: 68 minutes

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Braunfels: Die Vögel, Op. 30

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Valentina Farcas
Staatskapelle Weimar
Hansjörg Albrecht

Prelude & Prologue

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Braunfels: Two Hölderlin Songs, Op.27 for baritone and orchestra

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Michael Volle
Staatskapelle Weimar
Hansjörg Albrecht

No. 1, An die Parzen

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No. 2, Der Tod fürs Vaterland

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Braunfels: Auf ein Soldatengrab, Op. 26

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Michael Volle
Staatskapelle Weimar
Hansjörg Albrecht

Braunfels: Die Vögel, Op. 30

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Klaus Florian Vogt
Staatskapelle Weimar
Hansjörg Albrecht

So ist dies alles denn gewesen, wie?

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Braunfels: Don Juan, Op. 34

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Staatskapelle Weimar
Hansjörg Albrecht

Introduction & Theme

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Var. 1

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Var. 2

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Var. 3

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Var. 4

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Var. 5

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Var. 6

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Var. 7

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Walter Braunfels achieved his breakthrough as a composer during the 1920s with the opera The Birds (based on Aristophanes). Shortly thereafter he was, alongside Richard Strauss, one of the outstanding and most frequently performed German opera composers. His extremely versatile compositional oeuvre includes numerous operas, orchestral works and choral works, as well as Lieder, chamber music and piano works. He was praised as a forward-looking representative of the New Music. The most famous conductors of the era, such as Bruno Walter, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Otto Klemperer, Hans Knappertsbusch, Fritz Busch, Hermann Abendroth, Hans Pfitzner, Arthur Nikisch and Günter Wand, performed his compositions in the great German music centres, in Vienna, London and New York.

Braunfels regarded himself as a traditional late-romantic composer, a successor to Berlioz,Wagner and Bruckner. During the period of the Third Reich, he was dismissed as a “half Jew” from all offices and performances of his works were banned. After the Second World War, representatives of the musical avantgarde found Braunfels’s style no longer contemporary, which is why he gradually became forgotten. Since the 1990s, however, his complete oeuvre has been undergoing a wonderful Renaissance and is being enthusiastically re-discovered by the international musical world.

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August 2016

Albrecht’s conducting is fierce and passionate…Valentina Farcas negotiates the Nightingale’s Zerbinetta-ish coloratura with ravishing tone and delightful ease; Klaus Florian Vogt is clean and clear

20th September 2016

Dramatic and thrilling works in excellent performances

Walter Braunfels: Orchestral Songs Volume 1

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