Clearly a man of the early twentieth century born 100 years too late, Antony Beaumont has edited the letters of Gustav Mahler and the diaries of Alma Mahler, written important monographs on the music of Ferruccio Busoni, and conducted and recorded the complete orchestral works of Alexander von Zemlinsky with the Czech Philharmonic. With the release of this 2006 disc, Beaumont directed his attention to the orchestral works of Kurt Weill.For even fervent fans of early twentieth century music, it might come as news that Weill ...
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Clearly a man of the early twentieth century born 100 years too late, Antony Beaumont has edited the letters of Gustav Mahler and the diaries of Alma Mahler, written important monographs on the music of Ferruccio Busoni, and conducted and recorded the complete orchestral works of Alexander von Zemlinsky with the Czech Philharmonic. With the release of this 2006 disc, Beaumont directed his attention to the orchestral works of Kurt Weill.For even fervent fans of early twentieth century music, it might come as news that Weill actually wrote orchestral music. Best known for The Three Penny Opera and a run of Broadway musicals, Weill in fact turned twice to the most revered and challenging of orchestral forms, the symphony. His First, a single-movement musical-political post-Romantic howl, was written while he was a student of Busoni in Berlin in 1921 and his Second, a three-movement tragic-ironic modernist sneer, was written on the run from Nazi Germany in Paris in 1933-1934. Neither work, however, ever...
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