The music of composer Othmar Schoeck has been largely forgotten, partly because he authorized performances of his music in Nazi Germany. He said only that, as a Swiss, he was neutral, and some of his music is worth a second hearing. Consider the orchestral song cycle Elegie, Op. 36, performed here by baritone Christian Gerhaher, who has championed several of Schoeck's works. Its harmonic language is late Romantic, as is its attitude toward the texts by the arch-Romantics Nikolaus Lenau and Joseph von Eichendorff, but the ...
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The music of composer Othmar Schoeck has been largely forgotten, partly because he authorized performances of his music in Nazi Germany. He said only that, as a Swiss, he was neutral, and some of his music is worth a second hearing. Consider the orchestral song cycle Elegie, Op. 36, performed here by baritone Christian Gerhaher, who has championed several of Schoeck's works. Its harmonic language is late Romantic, as is its attitude toward the texts by the arch-Romantics Nikolaus Lenau and Joseph von Eichendorff, but the works come from the early 1920s, just as Schoeck's style was in a period of transition, and there are all kinds of traces of more modern styles. Most of the songs are quite short, for one thing, with many under two minutes long, and they have a modern kind of concision, saying what they have to say once and then ending. The songs are not connected, but neither do they seem to stand quite independently as each one explores the baritone register in a different way. Much of the writing...
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