Walter Braunfels Vol. 2
World premiere recordings
BBC Concert Orchestra, Johannes Wildner
[The Glass Mountain Suite] is given a touching performance, with a number of fine performances from individual players…[in the Sinfonia brevis] the lyrical passages are turned on their heads...
Walter Braunfels Vol. 2
World premiere recordings
BBC Concert Orchestra, Johannes Wildner
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[The Glass Mountain Suite] is given a touching performance, with a number of fine performances from individual players…[in the Sinfonia brevis] the lyrical passages are turned on their heads...
About
Walter Braunfels, who died in 1954, was one of the great twentieth-century German composers who were temporarily eclipsed by the Nazi era and the 1950s avant-garde. This second volume in Dutton Epoch’s survey of Braunfels’ memorable orchestral music spans from his luxuriant early Symphonic Variations on a French Children’s Song to the utterly delightful orchestral suite The Glass Mountain (Der Gläserne Berg) and the powerfully satisfying Sinfonia Brevis.
Contents and tracklist
Braunfels:
Symphonic Variations On a French Children's Song Op. 15
Work length15:45
This work is only available as an album download.
II. Adagio, Ma Non Troppo
Track length11:03
This track is only available as an album download.
Awards and reviews
August 2015
[The Glass Mountain Suite] is given a touching performance, with a number of fine performances from individual players…[in the Sinfonia brevis] the lyrical passages are turned on their heads by the dramatic episodes; these could sound overwrought in the wrong hands but Wildner seems to have this music in his blood.
