Gorgeous !!! Schreker is right up there with Mahler, Zemlinsky, Strauss, and early Schoenberg, in representing the ultimate in fin-the-siecle beauty and opulence. Thanks for the upload ! Your channel is one of the very best.
The early days of the 20th century must have been such a wonderful time for music. Late-Romantic works such as this are truly awe inspiring. Anyone recommend an opera by Schreker to start with?
I tried for 10 years to interest the major recording companies (Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, HMV) to make a recording of this truly heart-wrenching opera which I had the good fortune to hear at a performance at Salzburg in the 1970s, None of them showed any interest , until Cappriccio issued a gorgeous recording in 1988 with Gwyneth Jones as Esmeralda, James King ar Phoebus and the incomparable Kurt Moll as the hunchback of Notre Dame, Quasimodo. I also tried to interest the authorities of the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden -but they snnotily redused. That was not only their fault and our loss of hearing this remarkable opera, with its incomparable theme music which Schmidt fully expand to into the 8 minute Intermezzo. You walk out of the opera with that incomparable melody ringing in your head ! Dipak Nandy
@@dipaknandy3681 I'm too a great admirer of this wonderful opera, and hope to have a chance to see it live someday, and to get a better recording than Gwyneth Jones... But keep hope ! Who would have ever thought that I'd see in the same year 2 productions of Das Wunder der Heliane, and 3 Gezeichneten and a few other complete rarities in just the span of a few years.
Franz Schreker:Romantikus Szvit Op.14 1.Idill:Andante 00:00 2.Scherzo:Prestissimo - Trio (L'istesso Tempo) 09:11 3.Intermezzo:Con un movimento gentile 13:04 4.Tánc:Allegro vivace (un poco piú ruvido) 20:44 BBC Filharmonikus Zenekara Vezényel:Vaszilij Szinaiszkij
Shrecker was a very gifted composer. His operas are absolutely wonderful (such as for instance those of his Viennese colleagues Zemlinsky and Korngold), and his Kammersinfonie may rank quite close to Schoenberg's: less advanced harmonically, but more refined in terms of orchestration. Nevertheles, I do not consider personnally this Romantic Suite as one of his best works. For sure, the orchestration is quite refined, the composer fully understands the distance that he has to mark with a romantism which belonged yet to the past. But in my own feeling he is not fully convicing here.
Point taken...yet even so....is it not strange that selective reminiscence always here recalls Schönberg Korngold Zemlinsky...and yet the name of the most important inspiration for them all is never mentioned. I refer of course to: Dr. rer. nat. Johänn Gambölputty von Außfern-Schplenden-Schlitter-Crasscrënbön-Fried-Digger-Dingle-Dangle-Donglë-Dungle-Burßtein-von-Knacker-Thraßher-äpple-Banger-Horöwitz-Ebenmäißgkeitsentzückung-Ticolënsic-Grander-Knötty-ßpelltinkle-Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz-Grandlich-Grümblemeyer-ßpelterwässer-Kurstlich-ähimbleeisen-Bahnwagen-Gütenabënd-Bitte-ein-Nürnburger-Brätwustle-Gerspürten-mitz-Weimache-Luber-Hundsfut-Gumbëraber-Shönedanker-Kälbßfleisch-Mittlër-Auchervon Hautköpft von Ulm….Sie sind herzlich willkommen.
@@antonlavrovsky There are no questions of decadence here. Any composer - especially in these times and in this place - needed time to find a personality of his own, and his beginning were very often influenced by past writing techniques and expressions. Consider for instance his Kammersymphonie, a mature work. You can download for free the score from IMSLP, if you want, and analyze it in terms of harmony, counterpoint, orchestration and architecture. The architecture is very firm, the harmony (and counterpoint) is based upon quite clear and mostly classical bases: it is possible, for instance, to make a Schenkerian analysis. Nevertheless, this harmony shows varied and inventive within these classical patterns. The orchestration is a pure delaight. Nothing can be considered as decadent in this kammersymphony (other famous examples: Schoenberg and underrated Roslavets). Decadence can be found for instance in Richard Strauss' works after Elektra ( and also a bit before) or in the neoclassical Stravinsky. Shreker's writing is mst of the time very firm
@@bobhourigan7626 You can find some records therough Amazon for instance, including the famous Kammersymphonie. Otherwise, you can find a lot of his music here on TH-cam;
Like virtually all Schreker’s works, magnificent. As great as any of his contemporaries.
schreker is love schreker is life
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Gorgeous !!! Schreker is right up there with Mahler, Zemlinsky, Strauss, and early Schoenberg, in representing the ultimate in fin-the-siecle beauty and opulence. Thanks for the upload ! Your channel is one of the very best.
A beautiful Schreker work! Why has it been so long in making an appearance. Thank you!
An excellent contribution to the post-romanticism of the period. Some passages are of considerable lyricism. Great beautiful post
23 March is the birthday 🎂 of Franz Schereker.Thanks for the romantic music
A well timed coincidental visit to a work that probably should be an epic work.
I agree! Franz Schreker is one of my most recent discoveries, and a joy.
Paldies par diriģentu Sinaiski!Labi atceros viņa darbību Rīgā.Romantiski piesātināta mūzika viņam piestāv.Aija
The early days of the 20th century must have been such a wonderful time for music. Late-Romantic works such as this are truly awe inspiring. Anyone recommend an opera by Schreker to start with?
Der ferne Klang and my favorite: Die gezeigneten
*Gezeichneten
I tried for 10 years to interest the major recording companies (Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, HMV) to make a recording of this truly heart-wrenching opera which I had the good fortune to hear at a performance at Salzburg in the 1970s, None of them showed any interest , until Cappriccio issued a gorgeous recording in 1988 with Gwyneth Jones as Esmeralda, James King ar Phoebus and the incomparable Kurt Moll as the hunchback of Notre Dame, Quasimodo. I also tried to interest the authorities of the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden -but they snnotily redused. That was not only
their fault and our loss of hearing this remarkable opera, with its incomparable theme music which Schmidt fully expand to into the 8 minute Intermezzo. You walk out of the opera with that incomparable melody ringing in your head ! Dipak Nandy
@@dipaknandy3681 I'm too a great admirer of this wonderful opera, and hope to have a chance to see it live someday, and to get a better recording than Gwyneth Jones... But keep hope ! Who would have ever thought that I'd see in the same year 2 productions of Das Wunder der Heliane, and 3 Gezeichneten and a few other complete rarities in just the span of a few years.
Die Gezeichneten, which is finally getting the recognition it deserves on various stages.
I love the Intermezzo so much! Heartbreakingly beautiful music!
Johannes Bluemink Agreed, the intermezzo is really beautiful. It has an almost rachmaninoff-esque quality to it.
@@SpaghettiToaster Sounds more like Grieg to me.
@@bigcedock You're right, also, the middle section of the intermezzo does borrow some motivic ideas from piano concerto slow movement it seems.
Franz Schreker:Romantikus Szvit Op.14
1.Idill:Andante 00:00
2.Scherzo:Prestissimo - Trio (L'istesso Tempo) 09:11
3.Intermezzo:Con un movimento gentile 13:04
4.Tánc:Allegro vivace (un poco piú ruvido) 20:44
BBC Filharmonikus Zenekara
Vezényel:Vaszilij Szinaiszkij
Bravo e Grazie.
I can revisit this work.
Shrecker was a very gifted composer. His operas are absolutely wonderful (such as for instance those of his Viennese colleagues Zemlinsky and Korngold), and his Kammersinfonie may rank quite close to Schoenberg's: less advanced harmonically, but more refined in terms of orchestration. Nevertheles, I do not consider personnally this Romantic Suite as one of his best works. For sure, the orchestration is quite refined, the composer fully understands the distance that he has to mark with a romantism which belonged yet to the past. But in my own feeling he is not fully convicing here.
Point taken...yet even so....is it not strange that selective reminiscence always here recalls Schönberg Korngold Zemlinsky...and yet the name of the most important inspiration for them all is never mentioned. I refer of course to: Dr. rer. nat. Johänn Gambölputty von Außfern-Schplenden-Schlitter-Crasscrënbön-Fried-Digger-Dingle-Dangle-Donglë-Dungle-Burßtein-von-Knacker-Thraßher-äpple-Banger-Horöwitz-Ebenmäißgkeitsentzückung-Ticolënsic-Grander-Knötty-ßpelltinkle-Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz-Grandlich-Grümblemeyer-ßpelterwässer-Kurstlich-ähimbleeisen-Bahnwagen-Gütenabënd-Bitte-ein-Nürnburger-Brätwustle-Gerspürten-mitz-Weimache-Luber-Hundsfut-Gumbëraber-Shönedanker-Kälbßfleisch-Mittlër-Auchervon Hautköpft von Ulm….Sie sind herzlich willkommen.
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@@steveegallo3384 Do you know where I can find some of this man's music. I've heard the name before but not any of his music.
@@antonlavrovsky There are no questions of decadence here. Any composer - especially in these times and in this place - needed time to find a personality of his own, and his beginning were very often influenced by past writing techniques and expressions. Consider for instance his Kammersymphonie, a mature work. You can download for free the score from IMSLP, if you want, and analyze it in terms of harmony, counterpoint, orchestration and architecture. The architecture is very firm, the harmony (and counterpoint) is based upon quite clear and mostly classical bases: it is possible, for instance, to make a Schenkerian analysis. Nevertheless, this harmony shows varied and inventive within these classical patterns. The orchestration is a pure delaight. Nothing can be considered as decadent in this kammersymphony (other famous examples: Schoenberg and underrated Roslavets). Decadence can be found for instance in Richard Strauss' works after Elektra ( and also a bit before) or in the neoclassical Stravinsky. Shreker's writing is mst of the time very firm
@@bobhourigan7626 You can find some records therough Amazon for instance, including the famous Kammersymphonie. Otherwise, you can find a lot of his music here on TH-cam;
Zo mooi ! Ga de opera bekijken ' Der Schmied von Ghent' van deze voor mij tot nu onbekende componist !
door de opera van Vlaanderen.
I feel ashamed and embarrassed I didn't know this great composer until today. he is same level as Bruckner, Mahler, Glazunov...
david schreiter me too. What by Glazunov rises to that level
Great moments of opera the suite from the Middle Ages is fab. His ballet Raymonda, all of his Symphonies, the violin con. I could go on and on.
Wait until your listen to the music of his good friend, Joseph Marx.
What's the name of the painting?
Ria Munk on her Deathbed (1912), by Gustav Klimt.
When this is whom people consider a "decent" composer