Krenek - Static and Ecstatic, Op. 214
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Special offer. Krenek: Music For Chamber Orchestra
Agata Zubel (soprano), Mathias Hausmann (baritone)
Leopoldinium Orchestra, Ernest Kovacic
This imaginative disc puts the early (1931), lusciously part-tonal setting for coloratura and orchestra, Die Nachtigall (verse by Karl Kraus), beside spikier works from the 1970s. Von Vorn Herein,... —
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The trademark Cleveland sound, both ultra-classy and gloss-free, here intersects with Welser-Möst’s masterly approach to this greatest of symphonies – surely one of music’s supreme triumphs... —
