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Background: The scandals that attended performances of some of Schoenberg's works in the concert hall tend to blind us to the fact that he was not unfamiliar with triumphant applause. His Six Orchestral Songs op.8 of 1904 were also well regarded by the public at large. Schoenberg's First Chamber Symphony for fifteen solo instruments marked an enormous leap forward in his voyage of experimentation.

A Survivor from Warsaw op.46 for narrator, men's chorus and orchestra is, in essence, a condensed oratorio with words by Schoenberg himself, based on authentic accounts. The text distinguishes between three different layers, each in a different language: English is the language of the surviving eyewitness who tells of a Warsaw ghetto massacre, while the murderers interject in German and the Jews, about to perish, strike up the prayer Shema Jisroel (Hear, O Israel) in Hebrew.

CATALOGUE NR: 2564606822
RECORD LABEL: Elatus
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 7.82 including VAT, or £ 6.80 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 26-Jan-2004

COMPOSER: Arnold Schoenberg
TITLE: Survivor from Warsaw
TRACKS: Six Songs op.8. Chamber Symphony No.1 op.9. Begleitmusik zu einer Lichtspielszene op.34. A Survivor from Warsaw op.46.
ORCHESTRA: Staatskapelle Dresden
CONDUCTOR: Giuseppe Sinopoli
ARTISTS: John Tomlinson   Alessandra Marc    

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