Soprano Carole Farley and violinist Michael Guttman, accompanied by Rheinische Philharmonie, conducted by José Serbrier, present the world-premiere recording of Kurt Weill's 1925 cantata "Der Neue Orpheus," set to a 1918 text by Iwan Goll that depicts Orpheus in a modern urban setting. The work displays Weill's early classical style, influenced by early 20th century composers, and was one of his last such compositions before he turned to writing for the musical theater. The bulk of the disc is taken up by a Guttman ...
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Soprano Carole Farley and violinist Michael Guttman, accompanied by Rheinische Philharmonie, conducted by José Serbrier, present the world-premiere recording of Kurt Weill's 1925 cantata "Der Neue Orpheus," set to a 1918 text by Iwan Goll that depicts Orpheus in a modern urban setting. The work displays Weill's early classical style, influenced by early 20th century composers, and was one of his last such compositions before he turned to writing for the musical theater. The bulk of the disc is taken up by a Guttman performance of Weill's popular "Violin Concerto, Op. 12," from 1924, perhaps his most ambitious early classical work. Farley returns with two selections from the song cycle Der Silbersee (1933) and two from the 1946 Broadway musical Street Scene . Thus, the album follows Weill through some of his later developments in more conventional styles than his '20s compositions, though Street Scene is also an ambitious work that is sometimes considered to be operatic in scope. ~ William Ruhlmann, Rovi
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