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Zemlinsky - Lieder | Brilliant Classics 9009

Zemlinsky - Lieder

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Label: Brilliant Classics

Cat No: 9009

Barcode: 5029365900928

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 11th May 2009

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The rediscovery of the music of Alexander von Zemlinsky over the past 30 years has been one of the great success stories of 20th-century music. A bridge between the Romantic period and what followed, Zemlinsky, along with Korngold and Richard Strauss, exemplifies the alternative musical route post Wagner and Mahler. Although teetering on the edge of tonality, Zemlinsky, like Mahler, took the technical and stylistic achievement of Brahms, Dvorák and Wagner a stage further, adhering to the same principles. His student and firm friend Schoenberg, and the Second Viennese School, adopted the radical 12-tone method.

This 2 CD set contains a substantial number of Zemlinsky’s Lieder, from the early Op.2 set which betray their allegiance to Brahms, up to the late songs from his period of exile in the US in the late 1930s. The Op.27 songs display a growing sense of loss and estrangement. The brittle and bitter energy of these works sounds light years away from the lush late Romanticism of the Op.2 and Op.5 songs.

The line-up of soloists on this recording is first-rate. For lovers of the late Romantic period, especially the music of Mahler, these songs will have enormous appeal and stand in comparison with those by Strauss and Wolf.

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