Zemlinsky / Schulhoff - Orchestral Songs | Simax PSC1249

Zemlinsky / Schulhoff - Orchestral Songs

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Label: Simax

Cat No: PSC1249

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 26th March 2007

Contents

Works

Schulhoff, Erwin

Landschaften, op.26 WV44
Menschheit, op.28 WV48

Zemlinsky, Alexander von

Gesange (6) to poems by Maurice Maeterlinck, op.13

Artists

Randi Stene (mezzo-soprano)
Trondheim Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Muhai Tang

Works

Schulhoff, Erwin

Landschaften, op.26 WV44
Menschheit, op.28 WV48

Zemlinsky, Alexander von

Gesange (6) to poems by Maurice Maeterlinck, op.13

Artists

Randi Stene (mezzo-soprano)
Trondheim Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Muhai Tang

About

This release features the outstanding mezzo-soprano Randi Stene in a song cycle and two vocal symphonies from the early 1900s. Her voice is regarded as perhaps the most beautiful on the Scandinavian scene today.
 
Randi Stene made a sensational international debut as Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier at the Chatelet Theatre in Paris in 1993. Since then she has appeared in many leading opera-houses and concert halls such as Theatre de la Monnaie in Brussels, Opéra Bastille in Paris, Covent Garden in London, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Salzburg Festival, the festivals in Edinburgh and Bergen.
 
As a young student in Vienna, Alexander von Zemlinsky’s potential was such that Brahms convinced his own publisher to take him on. Later on he taught Arnold Schoenberg, whilst Alban Berg dedicated his Lyric Suite to him. His Six Songs, opus 13, are set to texts from Maurice Maeterlinck’s “Quinze Chansons”, and are rich in the late romantic tradition.
 
In the 1920s and 30s, the music of Ervin Schulhoff was as well known as that of his German contemporaries Paul Hindemith and Kurt Weill. In the 30s however, Schulhoff, who was a Jew, found his works proscribed by the Nazis, and for almost 50 years it was completely forgotten. With the recent interest in composers exiled or exterminated by the Third Reich, Schulhoff’s music has been rediscovered and rehabilitated. Landschaften and Menschheit, which he himself described as “symphonies for voice and orchestra” are two of his most important and powerful early works. They were believed to have been lost or destroyed and have only recently begun to receive their fair share of attention.

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