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Composer:
Arnold Schoenberg

Artist(s):
Jennifer Lane
Melanie Diener

Conductor:
Robert Craft

Background: The most popular and the most important of all Schoenberg's choral works, Gurre-Lieder (Songs of Gurre), part oratorio, part dramatic cantata, is a setting of poems by the Danish botanist and writer Jens Peter Jacobsen, for speaker, five solo singers, four choirs, and a huge orchestra.

First performed when Schoenberg had already immersed himself in atonality, this expressively opulent work charts the gradual intensification of love between King Valdemar and Tove. After Tove's murder, Valdemar searches for her beyond death, rediscovering her in Nature. The Hymn to the Sun brings the work to a resplendent and affirmative conclusion by uniting the full choral and orchestral forces for the first and only time.

CATALOGUE NR: 855751819
RECORD LABEL: Naxos
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: £ 8.50 including VAT, or £ 7.23 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 01-Nov-2004

COMPOSER: Arnold Schoenberg
TITLE: Gurrelieder
ORCHESTRA: Philharmonia Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Robert Craft
ARTISTS: Jennifer Lane   Melanie Diener   David Wilson-Johnson   Martyn Hill

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: originally available on Koch - Penguin Guide 3 star 'Robert Craft's version of Gurrelieder is among the most beautiful ever. Craft directs a performance which brings out the work's warmly romantic qualities rather than its foretastes of later Schoenberg'

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