Christine Schäfer

Christine Schäfer, Matthias Goerne, Orchestre De Paris, Christoph Eschenbach – Alexander Zemlinsky: Lyrische Symphonie op. 18 (2006)
SACD ISO (2.0/5.1): 2,85 GB | 24B/88,2kHz FLAC: 810 MB | Germany 2006
Genre: Classical | Style: Symphony

This is Alexander Zemlinsky’s high romantic masterpiece, a symphonic drama-cum-orchestral song cycle that owes something both to his Viennese fellow conductor Gustav Mahler’s ‘Song of the Earth’, and to his pupil Schoenberg’s ‘Gurrelieder’…yet while Schoenberg was looking to atonality and his 12-tone system to design his way out of a 20th century tonal crisis, his teacher went another way, as we hear so clearly in this lushly orchestrated work.

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