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Composer:
Walter Braunfels

Artist(s):
Gitta-Maria Sjoberg
Lars Jonsson

Conductor:
Manfred Honeck

Background: The reputation that Walter Braunfels enjoys today falls far short of the high regard in which he was held during the 1920s, when he was seen as one of Germany's leading composers, his name frequently mentioned in the same breath as those of Richard Strauss and Franz Schreker.

As with Schreker, the National Socialists' stigmatised his music as 'degenerate' and even his greatest triumphs, including the Aristophanic opera Die Vögel, were suppressed, and although he was rehabilitated after 1945, he was unable to repeat his earlier triumphs.

There is an especially bitter irony to the fact that one of his greatest successes during his lifetime, his Te Deum op.32, was written in the context of his conversion to Catholicism as a response to the horrors of the First World War. This is a large-scale choral work filled with reminiscences of Wagner, but unlike Parsifal, Braunfels' music does not subscribe to the idea of art as a form of religious worship.

CATALOGUE NR: C679071A
RECORD LABEL: Orfeo
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.23 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 26-Nov-2007

COMPOSER: Walter Braunfels
TITLE: Te Deum op.32
ORCHESTRA: Swedish Radio Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Manfred Honeck
ARTISTS: Gitta-Maria Sjoberg   Lars Jonsson   Eric Ericson Chamber Choir   Swedish Radio Choir

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