Krenek: Music For Chamber Orchestra

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This imaginative disc puts the early (1931), lusciously part-tonal setting for coloratura and orchestra, Die Nachtigall (verse by Karl Kraus), beside spikier works from the 1970s. Von Vorn Herein,... — Sunday Times, 10th June 2012 More…

Release Date: 28th May 2012
Catalogue No: TOCC0125
Label: Toccata Classics
Length: 76 minutes

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Krenek: Von Vorn Herein, Op. 219

Work length10:05

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$3.85

Leopoldinum Orchestra
Ernst Kovacic

Krenek: Die Nachtigall, Op. 68a

Work length8:18

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$2.60

Agata Zubel
Leopoldinum Orchestra
Ernst Kovacic

Krenek: Im Tal der Zeit, Op. 232

Work length13:30

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Leopoldinum Orchestra
Ernst Kovacic

Krenek: Statisch und ekstatisch, Op. 214

Work length22:55

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$13.00

Leopoldinum Orchestra
Ernst Kovacic

I. —

Track length1:14

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II. —

Track length1:05

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III. —

Track length1:58

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IV. —

Track length3:10

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V. —

Track length1:36

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VI. —

Track length2:12

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VII. —

Track length2:54

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VIII. —

Track length3:19

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IX. —

Track length1:38

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X. —

Track length3:49

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Krenek: The Dissembler, Op. 229

Work length22:05

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Mathias Hausmann
Leopoldinum Orchestra
Ernst Kovacic

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These five works for chamber orchestra by Ernst Krenek (1900–91) were written between 1931 and 1979 – both before and long after Krenek abandoned Hitler’s Austria for California. They demonstrate that serial music, in capable hands, does not have to abandon the virtues of more conservative idioms: the emotions embraced here range from translucent lyricism, via powerful dramatic utterance, to laugh-out-loud humour.

Much of it is, quite simply, very beautiful.

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10th June 2012

This imaginative disc puts the early (1931), lusciously part-tonal setting for coloratura and orchestra, Die Nachtigall (verse by Karl Kraus), beside spikier works from the 1970s. Von Vorn Herein, for ensemble, sounds defiantly avant-garde...The 10 short orchestral pieces of Static and Ecstatic bristle with energy.

31st May 2012

This impressively played collection of pieces for chamber orchestra concentrates on his music from the 1970s...there's a real freshness and energy about most of these pieces that's genuinely engaging

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