Kilian Herold, Hansjacob Staemmler – Vienna 1913 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 59:31 minutes | 536 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © CAvi-music

The years between 1900 and 1914 are perhaps among the most exciting in European music history. It was during these years that what is now commonly referred to as musical modernism emerged. It is the time when the great European “schools” of the musical avant-garde take shape in Paris, Berlin, St. Petersburg and especially in Vienna, and when music fans out into a variety of aesthetics, styles and genres that are reflected in the set of terms we use today to try to get to grips with the art of this era: Impressionism, Expressionism, Art Nouveau, Neoclassicism, Folklorism, Late Romanticism / Post-Romanticism, Symbolism, etc. The programme selection is grouped around two works written in Vienna in 1913, in this “summer of the century” (Florian Illies) that ends the long 19th century and heralds the dark 20th century: Alban Berg’s Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano op. 5 and Egon Kornauth’s Sonata for Clarinet and Piano. It is the year of scandalous premieres: Schönberg’s Gurrelieder, Berg’s Altenberlieder, Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps, but also the less scandalous ones of Debussy’s Images pour Orchestre, Reger’s Toteninsel, Sibelius Luonnotar, de Falla’s La vida breve and Strauss’s Festliches Präludium.
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