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Cerha - Cello Concerto / Schreker Chamber Symphony

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Label: ECM New Series

Cat No: 4763098

Barcode: 0028947630982

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 27th August 2007

Works

Artists

Heinrich Schiff
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra

Conductor

Peter Eotvos

Works

Artists

Heinrich Schiff
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra

Conductor

Peter Eotvos

About

Friedrich Cerha is best known worldwide as the composer who completed the 3rd act of Alban Berg’s opera Lulu, played universally today in his reconstructed version. Born in 1926, he has always been an independent spirit. Associated early on with the two rival 12-tone schools - Hauer’s and Schoenberg’s - he founded, in 1958, the ensemble “die reihe” which remained under his direction until 1983 and set high standards for the performance of modern music. His Cello Concerto, commissioned by the Wien Modern and Berlin Festivals, employs characteristically unorthodox textures. Heinrich Schiff’s brilliant, energized cello moves swiftly and agilely through ever-changing climates coloured variously by soprano sax, bongos and congas, and organ as well as banks of strings.

Franz Schreker’s Chamber Symphony is a fascinating oddity, written in the middle of Word War I for the teaching staff of Vienna’s Academy of Music. The liner notes describe Schreker as a “consummate artist in timbres” and the symphony as “phenomenal. It is Schreker’s only genuinely symphonic work.

Austrian cellist Heinrich Schiff made his debut in Vienna and London in 1971, launching a stellar solo career that has led to performances with all the great orchestras and pre-eminent conductors in the major music centres of the world. For years he has taken a special interest in contemporary music, working regularly with many leading composers of our time and premiering their works.

A highly regarded composer, Transylvania-born Peter Eötvös is, as conductor, one of the best known interpreters of 20th century music. In 1978, at Boulez’s invitation, he conducted the inaugural IRCAM concert in Paris, and was subsequently musical director of the Ensemble InterContemporain. He has worked extensively with the BBC Symphony and Budapest Festival Orchestras and Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra – with whom he has recorded Elliott Carter’s What Next? (472 1882) and the all-Hungarian Bartók/Eötvös/Kurtág CD with Kim Kashkashian (465 4202) for ECM New Series.