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Although all of this live material has been released previously […]
Karl Amadeus Hartmann’s two string quartets are tightly crafted, emotionally wide ranging, and powerfully communicative yet uncompromising. They also are sadly overlooked, which is why
Alban Berg’s single-movement Op. 1 Piano Sonata certainly doesn’t lack for excellent recordings. However, Allison Brewster Franzetti’s impassioned and persuasive performance easily holds its own
ECM’s excellent booklet notes mention that Bartók wrote his Fourth Quartet in 1928, not long after hearing Alban Berg’s Lyric Suite. Five years later Karl
Ferdinand Leitner leads a solid, very traditional Bruckner Sixth with judiciously chosen tempos, an eloquently sung slow movement, and a touch of stodginess in the
Karl Amadeus Hartmann’s music seethes with inner anguish, its intensity rooted in the composer’s internal exile in Nazi Germany. Hartmann protested Hitler’s ascension to power
If Stravinsky and Brecht had collaborated, it’s likely that they would have devised something like this little suite of five short operas. Each opera is
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
What a surprising and marvelous release! Karl Amadeus Hartmann is, along with Hindemith, the premier post-War German symphonist, and one of a tiny handful of
