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This collection of Zemlinsky orchestral songs covers the composer’s entire creative life. The early Waldgespräch, Maiblumen blühten überall (lovingly sung by Soile Isokoski), and the
This disc of early 20th century Viennese orchestral songs seems the perfect showcase for Eva Marton, whose recordings have been intermittently successful in conveying the
Joseph von Eichendorff’s evocative poetry redolent of forest depths, love’s joys and disappointments, melancholy brooding, and dark night thoughts, inspired countless composers. Baritone Wolfgang Holzmair
The opening of Zemlinsky’s Lyric Symphony, with its stark modal harmonies and colorful deployment of brass and percussion, is one of the more arresting passages
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) was the student of Alexander Zemlinsky (1871-1942) and their music, particularly these two sextets, reflects the spirit of late 19th-century Vienna.
Understandably, commentators often cite Zemlinsky’s Lyric Symphony in the same breath with Mahler’s better-known “song-symphony” Das Lied von der Erde. Aside from both having dated
Dagmar Pecková is a Czech mezzo-soprano with a good technique, brains, and taste. The program she presents here is terrific: the Wesendonk Lieder and Zemlinsky
