Release Date: 09 January 2015
Label: Capriccio - Cd / Capriccio
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 845221052595
Genres: Classical  
Composer/Series: Weigl
Release Date: 09 January 2015
Label: Capriccio - Cd / Capriccio
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 845221052595
Genres: Classical  
Composer/Series: Weigl
Description
By the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Lied genre had arguably reached a peak with such late-Romantic masters as Mahler, Strauss and Wolf in their song-writing prime. This was the musical environment into which Karl Ignaz Weigl was born in Vienna in February 1881. Already at the age of 15 he had composition lessons with Alexander Zemlinsky, a family friend. It was clear from an early stage that the writing of vocal music was a particular passion of Weigl's. With the Nazis' rise to power in the 1930s, Weigl, as a prominent public figure of Jewish descent, found himself in an increasingly precarious position. Sensing the writing on the wall following Hitler's annexation of Austria in 1938, he and his family fled for the United States. Weigl died there in August 1949 at the age of 68 with much of his large output lying neglected and rarely performed. One can hope that recordings such as the present one will help to raise consciousness among performers and their public of these highly individual and very beautiful songs.
Tracklisting
Sofja Gulbadamova
Orf Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra; Markus Poschner
Jelka Weber; Jan Vogler; Marketa Janouskova; Albrecht Mayer; Andre Schoch; Kathi Wagner; Stefan Doh
Bruckner Orchester Linz; Markus Poschner
TRIENDL/JOHANNS/KARMON
GROISSBOCK/ORF VRSO/HUSSAIN
Saatsorchester Stuttgart; Esther Dierkes; Elena Tsallagova; Björn Bürger; Adam Palka; Maria Riccard
ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
Various
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