Weill: Berliner Requiem; Vom Tod in Wald; Violinkonzert (1993)

This is rather unusual; Baroque expert and advocate of French music and Johann Sebastian Bach's cantatas Philippe Herreweghe takes up the cause of Kurt Weill's early, neglected concert works. Weill is among a small number of twentieth century composers that Herreweghe conducts from time to time, Stravinsky and Schoenberg being the other main ones. When Herreweghe recorded Harmonia Mundi's Kurt Weill: Berliner Requiem at IRCAM in 1992, all of these pieces were still relatively rare on recordings; this Musique d'abord ... Read More

This is rather unusual; Baroque expert and advocate of French music and Johann Sebastian Bach's cantatas Philippe Herreweghe takes up the cause of Kurt Weill's early, neglected concert works. Weill is among a small number of twentieth century composers that Herreweghe conducts from time to time, Stravinsky and Schoenberg being the other main ones. When Herreweghe recorded Harmonia Mundi's Kurt Weill: Berliner Requiem at IRCAM in 1992, all of these pieces were still relatively rare on recordings; this Musique d'abord incarnation is the third time Harmonia Mundi has released it. While the field is not yet crowded, the competition is stiffer than in 1992, as interest in Weill's lone Violin Concerto has picked up considerably in the meantime. Berliner Requiem, in its complete form, exists on at least four recordings and Vom Tod in Wald in two others by July 2007. On the BIS disc The Singing Apes, the Swedish choral group Orphei Drängar has recorded the Berliner Requiem in a version that is clearly superior... Read Less

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