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Austrian composer (1879-1952)
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2020-04-02 09:41:00
Vienna, City of Dreams: Works by Haydn and Schoenberg
(This essay was first published to accompany a Pentatone disc of works by Haydn and Schoenberg, performed by Alisa Weilerstein and the Trondheim Soloists.) Wien, du Stadt meiner Träume (‘Vienna, you city of my dreams’) is the title of a sentimental 1914 song by the Polish composer, Rudolf Sieczyński. One is tempted to anathematise it as the equivalent of a student-wall poster to real Gustav Klimt, a Sachertorte experience to the fractious coffee-house disputes of the era of Arnold Schoenberg and Leon Trotsky (sadly not with each other). Perhaps, though, that is unfair to Sieczyński as well as to Vienna. For dreams are rarely comfortable, often nightmares. They are rarely simple, either, any more than Vienna has ever been. Ask the Klytämnestra of Richard Strauss, one of a host of honorary Viennese more greatly honoured than its ‘own’, Schoenberg perhaps top of that list. Vienna […]
2016-04-22 07:47:00
The second concert of the subscription series of the Buenos Aires Philharmonic at the Colón gave us three contrasting views of the ways of organized sound before and after World War II. The following day was the inauguration of Nuova Harmonia´s season at the refurbished Coliseo in a programme of Viennese music . It was a pleasure to witness the debut of Chinese conductor Zhang Guoyong. A disciple of Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, he is at 51 the Artistic Director of the Shanghai Opera (he was born in that splendid city). The concert was short (just an hour) but it included two premières and a very tough symphony rarely done: a lot of music to study for the Phil´s players. […]
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