Bavarian Chor, Radio Symphony Orchestra, Howard Arman – Der Wilde Sound Der 20er (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Bavarian Chor, Radio Symphony Orchestra, Howard Arman – Der Wilde Sound Der 20er (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:09:01 minutes | 647 MB | Genre: Classical
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The BR-KLASSIK album features recent studio recordings from April 2021 (Toch, Weill) and March 2022 (Krenek) as well as a live recording from the Munich Philharmonie in the Gasteig from March 2017 (Bartók). The album is released as part of the programme focus on “100 Years of Radio”, which shows how formative the sound of this century was: in 1923, amidst social upheaval, the age of radio began. The music composed for the new medium reflects the time between modernity and tradition, revolution and republic, jazz and dance music.

29 October 1923 – a date steeped in history. In the midst of a year of political and economic crisis, the age of public radio in Germany was heralded with the first broadcast of the “Berliner Funkstunde” in the attic of an office building on Potsdamer Platz. – Radio offered completely new possibilities for the production and reception of music.

The composers assembled on this album not only profited from these developments, but also played an active role in shaping them. Kurt Weill accompanied the rapid rise of radio as a mass medium as a critical chronicler, reflected on its musical use in countless articles and also composed some radio music at the end of the 1920s. As early as 1924, Ernst Krenek was commissioned to write a “radio blues” and made radio part of the dramatic action in his successful “Zeitoper” “Jonny spielt auf” of 1927. And Ernst Toch, who was extremely interested in the technological and media developments of the time, also composed radio music tailored to the specific possibilities of the medium in 1929 with his “Bunten Suite”. The Jewish composer Ernst Toch, who came from Vienna, experienced the crisis year of 1923 in Mannheim, where his “Dance Suite” for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, double bass and percussion op. 30 was premiered on 19 November with great success. In the commissioned work for the expressive dancer Frieda Ursula Back, who choreographed its premiere, Toch was able to realise his interest in cross-disciplinary collaboration and new forms of expression. His virtuoso and imaginative use of instruments is one of the most fascinating aspects of the suite. The “Frauentanz” for soprano, flute, viola, clarinet, horn and bassoon op. 10 by Kurt Weill, written in the summer of 1923, reflects the interest in chamber music formations typical of the time. The decisive factor was not only a new ideal of sound and expression, but also the experience that in times of crisis, pieces with small ensembles had better chances of being performed. The song cycle quickly gained recognition. After its successful Berlin premiere in February 1924, it was published a few months later as the young composer’s first work in print and was his most frequently performed piece until 1927. The enormously productive Ernst Krenek had found essential impulses for his work in Berlin/ when the crisis came to a head in the summer of 1923, he returned to Austria, where he composed the “Three Mixed Choirs” a cappella op. 22 on poems by Matthias Claudius in October. Krenek designed the folksong-like models of a lyricist from the epoch of Empfindsamkeit as parables that critically reflect and comment on contemporary experiences and developments. For the festive concert celebrating the 50th anniversary of the unification of the cities of Buda and Pest to form the capital and residence city of Budapest in autumn 1923, Béla Bartók created his “Dance Suite” for orchestra – a “spicy story”, as the internationalist-minded composer explained in a private note. His music ingeniously thwarted the cultural-political intentions of the “ultra-Christian-national” patrons. – After chamber music works, a large orchestral work concludes the programme.

Tracklist:

1. Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra – Tanz-Suite, Op. 30 (Version for Chamber Ensemble & Strings): I. Roter Wirbeltanz (05:15)
2. Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra – Tanz-Suite, Op. 30 (Version for Chamber Ensemble & Strings): II. Tanz des Grauens (05:55)
3. Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra – Tanz-Suite, Op. 30 (Version for Chamber Ensemble & Strings): III. Intermezzo (02:31)
4. Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra – Tanz-Suite, Op. 30 (Version for Chamber Ensemble & Strings): IV. Tanz des Schweigens (04:13)
5. Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra – Tanz-Suite, Op. 30 (Version for Chamber Ensemble & Strings): V. Intermezzo (02:44)
6. Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra – Tanz-Suite, Op. 30 (Version for Chamber Ensemble & Strings): VI. Tanz des Erwachens (09:36)
7. Anna-Maria Palii & Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra – Frauentanz, Op. 10: No. 1, Wir haben die winterlange Nacht mit Freuden wohl empfangen (01:45)
8. Anna-Maria Palii & Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra – Frauentanz, Op. 10: No. 2, Wo zwei Herzenliebe an einem Tanze gan (01:21)
9. Anna-Maria Palii & Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra – Frauentanz, Op. 10: No. 3, Ach wär mein Lieb ein Brünnlein kalt (00:39)
10. Anna-Maria Palii & Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra – Frauentanz, Op. 10: No. 4, Dieser Stern im Dunkeln (01:43)
11. Anna-Maria Palii & Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra – Frauentanz, Op. 10: No. 5, Eines Maienmorgens schoen (02:00)
12. Anna-Maria Palii & Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra – Frauentanz, Op. 10: No. 6, Ich will Trauern lassen stehn (01:25)
13. Anna-Maria Palii & Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra – Frauentanz, Op. 10: No. 7, Ich schlaf, ich wach, ich geh (02:56)
14. Bavarian Radio Chorus & Howard Arman – 3 Gemischte Choere a cappella, Op. 22: No. 1, Der Mensch (03:40)
15. Bavarian Radio Chorus & Howard Arman – 3 Gemischte Choere a cappella, Op. 22: No. 2, Troestung (03:34)
16. Bavarian Radio Chorus & Howard Arman – 3 Gemischte Choere a cappella, Op. 22: No. 3, Die Roemer (02:31)
17. Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Cristian Măcelaru – Tanz Suite, Sz. 77: I. Moderato (03:21)
18. Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Cristian Măcelaru – Tanz Suite, Sz. 77: II. Allegro molto (02:22)
19. Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Cristian Măcelaru – Tanz Suite, Sz. 77: III. Allegro vivace (03:08)
20. Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Cristian Măcelaru – Tanz Suite, Sz. 77: IV. Molto tranquillo (03:06)
21. Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Cristian Măcelaru – Tanz Suite, Sz. 77: V. Comodo (01:07)
22. Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Cristian Măcelaru – Tanz Suite, Sz. 77: VI. Finale (03:58)

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