Deutsche Sinfonie, Op. 50 (German Symphony)

1. Deutsche Sinfonie for soloists, chorus & orchestra, Op 50
Composed by Hanns Eisler
Performed by Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra with Gert Gutschow , Matthias Gorne , Peter Lika , Annette Markert , Volker Schwarz
Conducted by Sigurd Brauns

Deutsche Sinfonie, Op. 50 (German Symphony),Matthias Goerne,Matthias Gorne,Peter Lika,Hanns Eisler,Lothar Zagrosek,Sigurd Brauns,Gewandhausorchester Leipzig,Hendrikje Wangemann,Annette Markert,Polygram Records,Choral,Choral Music,Classical,Classical Music,Modern Composition

Average customer rating: A monumental work by a miniaturist A powerful musical document of darkness,struggle & hope

Deutsche Sinfonie, Op. 50 (German Symphony) Manufacturer: Polygram Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Eisler, Hanns | ( E ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Similar Items: Eisler: The Hollywood Songbook Wolpe: Zeus und Elida Op5a; Schöne Geschichten Op5b Goldschmidt: Cello/Clarinet/Violin Concertos Ignace Strasfogel: Piano Music Viktor Ullmann: Der Kaiser von Atlantis/Hölderlin-Lieder ASIN: B00000428A Release Date: 1996-02-13

Tracks:

1. Deutsche Sinfonie, Op.50: Praludium
2. Deutsche Sinfonie, Op.50: An die Kampfer in den Konzentrationslagem
3. Deutsche Sinfonie, Op.50: Etude fur Orchester
4. Deutsche Sinfonie, Op.50: Erinnerung (Potsdam)
5. Deutsche Sinfonie, Op.50: In Sonnenburg
6. Deutsche Sinfonie, Op.50: Intermezzo fur Orchester
7. Deutsche Sinfonie, Op.50: Begrabnis des Hetzers im Zinksarg
8. Deutsche Sinfonie, Op.50: Bauernkantate: Missernte- Sicherheit- Flustergesprache- Bauernliedchen
9. Deutsche Sinfonie, Op.50: Arbeiterkantate
10. Deutsche Sinfonie, Op.50: Allegro fur Orchester
11. Deutsche Sinfonie, Op.50: Epilog

Customer Reviews:

A monumental work by a miniaturist.......2000-05-04

German composer Hanns Eisler is sometimes dismissed by his critics as a "miniaturist"--a gifted composer of songs, film scores, stage music and tightly-structured chamber pieces who was incapable of larger-scale orchestral works. This was partly the result of Eisler's theory of "applied music"--music should "climb down from its lofty heights" and take part in life's struggles. For Eisler, that meant music for the radical worker's movement in Europe before the Second World War, and particularly music for the new technologies of radio, sound film and recording. Both content and form dictated Eisler's style, which tended to produce concentrated bursts of meaning through carefully constructed forms.

The "German Symphony" on this album--recorded by the famous Leipzig Gewandhaus--shows that Eisler could indeed write for large musical forces. But the symphony's 11 movements are more of a series of cantatas than an integrated choral symphony. Still, the effect is impressive, and the opening Praeludium is one of the finest products of Eisler's generation of exiles from Nazi-dominated Europe. It is a powerful cry of protest, to words by Bertolt Brecht, against the spiritual and physical destruction of their German homeland.

A powerful musical document of darkness,struggle & hope.......1999-04-04

This is the first studio recording of this important neglected work. Last year was The Eisler Centenary (1898-1998), and we found The American Symphony in New York giving the U.S premiere.Eisler's musical language knows no equal in uniting the complexities of images, of words with music. He is like the unknown Schubert of our time. And he has had vigorous challenge in Brecht who wrote the text here. This musical monument works best as a cantata than an oratorio-like symphonie. Eisler's musical phrases work best with short terse declamations and dark lyrical lines. And here we have a multi-movement work with shifting emphasis between solo moments,choral declamation to pure instrumental interludes. One movement entitled "Concentration Camp" forshadowed the darkest pages of European history. Eisler's music moves slowly,lugubriously not pleased with the state of the world the music waits for violence or struggle here with not quite triumphant fragments of the song "The International". Zagrosek with clean precision unites the formidable forces, with clear impassioned solo work and seemless orchestral playing.

Average customer rating: A Powerful Lament for a Lost Generation A musical monument of hope struggle and darkness

Hanns Eisler: Deutsche Sinfonie (German Symphony), Op. 50, for Soloists, Speakers, Chorus & Orchestra Gisela Burkhardt , Rosemarie Lang , Uta Priew , Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra & Chorus , and Andreas Sommerfeld Manufacturer: Berlin Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Eisler, Hanns | ( E ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B000007NEY Release Date: 1998-06-16

Customer Reviews:

A Powerful Lament for a Lost Generation.......2002-02-26

German composer Hanns Eisler was sometimes dismissed by his critics as a "miniaturist"--a gifted composer of songs, film scores, stage music and tightly-structured chamber pieces who was incapable of larger-scale orchestral works. This assessment was partly the result of Eisler's theory of "applied music"--music should "climb down from its lofty heights" and take part in life's struggles. For Eisler, that meant music with a message. Before World War II, Eisler was one of the first serious composers to experiment with the new technologies of radio, sound film and recording, but he was best known for his collaboration with Bertolt Brecht in the radical musical theater that flourished in Berlin during the last crisis years of the Weimar Republic. Both content and form dictated Eisler's style, which tended to produce concentrated bursts of meaning through carefully constructed forms.

Then the Nazis came to power, and Brecht and Eisler fled for their lives. The "German Symphony" dates from this period, and shows that Eisler could indeed write for large musical forces. The symphony's 11 movements may perhaps be better described as an extended oratorio than an integrated choral symphony, but still, the effect is impressive, and the opening Praeludium is one of the finest cultural legacies of Eisler's "lost generation" during the years of exile from Nazi-dominated Europe. It is a powerful cry of protest, partly to words by Brecht, against the evil that raged through their German homeland.

A musical monument of hope struggle and darkness.......1999-07-15

Last year was the Centenary for composer Hanns Eisler(1898-1998),and this work was given its United States premiere in New York under the baton of Leon Botstein. Eisler emerged from the Berlin avant-garde, a student of Arnold Schoenberg, yet a Marxist one who believed in the vigours of modernity yet tempered to a political reality,unlike Schoenberg who mindlessly scoffed at political engagement. Eisler devoted his creativity toward the resolution of the problematics of politically useful art. So he organized and wrote for Worker Choirs in Berlin,also writing hundreds of songs(lieder). This "Symphonie" is actually a cantata,with a text by Bertold Brecht. It is a dark work with Eisler's harmonic penchant for what he developed as a meeting ground between high and low art. An atonality that is straightforward melodically with a lyricism that provides a context for message projection. The richness of this work is in the exploitation of the genre,of song placed in the symphonic context,yet never really arching into symphonic shape. Eisler knew consummately the vocal contrapuntal achievements of Johann Sebastian Bach and Handel,and you feel this here in the seemless flow of alternating moments of solo,chorus and orchestra. There are orchestral interludes to inhance the contextual richness,even a movement entitled "concentration camp" written long before that became a reality in Germany.

Average customer rating: Regarding study of music banned by 3rd Reich

The Music Survives: Degenerate Music Manufacturer: Decca ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Baroque Dance Suites | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music | Allemandes | Courantes | Gigue | Sarabande Quartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Eisler, Hanns | ( E ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Goldschmidt, Berthold | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Korngold, Erich Wolfgang | ( K ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Krenek, Ernst | ( K ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Korngold, Erich Wolfgang | Composers | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music German | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music The Decca Records Store | Specialty Stores | Music Similar Items: Viktor Ullmann: Der Kaiser von Atlantis/Hölderlin-Lieder The Conformist (Extended Edition) ASIN: B0000042FG Release Date: 1997-06-10

Tracks:

1. Die V (Libretto: Braunfels After Aristophanes): Vorspiel - Prolog
2. Between Two Worlds: The World At War - The Next World
3. Der Kaiser von Atlantis (Libretto: Kien): Wer da? Halt! Steh! - Ist's wahr, das es Landschaften gibt - Komm fort von hier - Schau, die Wolken
4. Das Wunder der Heliane (Libretto: Muller after Kaltneker): Act 2, Scene 3: Ich ging zu ihm
5. Flammen (Libretto: Benes, Brod): Scene 8: Introduzione - Karnevalsnacht
6. Rondeau: `Rue du Rocher' (excerpt) - Berthold Goldschmidt
7. Die Gezeichneten (Libretto: Schreker): Act 3, Scene 15: Maskenzug - Was fliehst du vor mir?
8. Deutsche Sinfonie, Op. 50: Prdium
9. Der gewaltige Hahnrei: Act Two: Zwischenspiel - Du bist so blas wie ein Licht bei Tage!
10. String Quartet No. 2 - From The Monkey Mountains - III: Largo e misterioso - The Moon And I
11. Johnny Spielt Auf (Libretto: Krenek): Ob er kommt

Description

CD Video boxed set. Londn Rec. CD sample of wks by compose rs banned by Nazi regime. 40 min. vid. documentary of how & why these composers were labelled degenerate by Nazis. Never-before-seen cover art by Art Spiegelman (Maus).

Customer Reviews:

Regarding study of music banned by 3rd Reich.......2004-12-09

I know Michael Haas, executive producer. He has made a total commitment to locating and recording work of musicians whose work was banned by the Hitler regime because composers, etc. were even suspected to be Jewish, gay, gypsy, etc. One atheist or agnostic composer was sent to concentration camp because his father had been a Jew in the past.

This is needed to give a picture of the survival of music by talented people under duress.

Track Listings:

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2. Evensong For St. Ethelfreda
3. Frei Manuel Cardoso: Requiem
4. From A to Z
5. Gershwin Concert
6. Girolamo Frescobaldi: Il Primo libro di Capricci
7. Golden Treasury of Immortal Singers
8. Hallelujah: Great Choral Classics
9. Handel - Theodora / Hunt-Lieberson · PBO · McGegan [Highlights]
10. Hector Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust

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