723385492252

Mendelssohn: String Symphony No. 10 - Widmann: Ikarische Klage - Korngold: Symphonic Serenade

Stuttgarter Kammerorchester; Jorg Widmann

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Format: CD

Cat No: CCS49225

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Release Date:  03 October 2025

Label:  Channel Classics

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  723385492252

Genres:  Classical  Orchestral  

Composer/Series:  Mendelssohn

  • Description

    Conductor and composer Jorg Widmann leads the Stuttgarter Kammerochester in this album of masterpieces for string orchestra. The precocious Mendelssohn is represented with his String Symphony No.10 in B minor. It consists of a single movement, in which a sweeping slow introduction is followed by an allegro and coda. Widmann's own Ikarische Klage takes its subject matter from a poem by Baudelaire: "Burnt by the love of beauty / I will not have the sublime honour / of giving my name to the abyss / that will serve as my grave". On Korngold's Symphonic Serenade, Widmann says "What a piece, full of glittering magic!". In this work we hear dreams of a real or imaginary Vienna in the time of Mahler or Berg: a vision that looks to the future, is heart-rending but never sentimental.