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Orchestral music from the operas

Franz Schreker

Reviews (7)

Presto classical

2013

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"Franz Schreker's operas were among the most performed works of the Weimar Republic. Der Schatzgräber (The Treasure Hunter) was his most popular opera, and also his last".

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BBC music magazine

2014 March

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Erik Levi

2014 March

"Vurdering: BBC music opera choice" - "This vivid live recording ... is a tremendous achievement ... The main protagonists sing their roles very effectively ... yet the main plaudits must surely go to Marc Albrecht and the Netherlands Philharmonic ... to deliver exceptionally warm and sophisticated playing throughout".

BBC music magazine

2017 January

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Erik Levi

2017 January

"BBC music orchestral choice. Perhaps the most striking aspect of these excerpts is their sensuality of sonority, confirming without question that Schreker was an absolute master of the orchestra ... Lawrence Renes and the Royal Swedish Orchestra revel in the music's extravagance, delivering strongly committed and full-blooded performances ... Anyone who has a weakness for early Schoenberg, Zemlinsky and Korngold will want to hear this disc".

Diapason

2017 janvier

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Jean-Claude Hulot

2017 janvier

The gramophone

2014 March

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Arnold Whittall

2014 March

"Benefits greatly from the presence of veteran Graham Clark as the Fool and Gordon Goetz in the role of Albi".

The gramophone

2017 January

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Christian Hoskins

2017 January

"Luxuriously orchestrated and sensuously intoxicating, the extended orchestral interludes found in Schreker's operas are as fine in introduction as any of the music of this historically important but still under-performed Austrian composer ... Recommended with enthusiasm".

Opus

2016, nr. 71

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Ladislaus Horatius

2016, nr. 71

"Den här musiken är det vackraste jag hört på länge. Hade vi fortfarande betyg i Opus skulle den få en sexa ... Här bjuder ett mycket expressivt och skönklingande Hovkapell, otadligt ledd av Lawrence Renes, på instrumentala avsnitt, främst ouvertyrer, ur fem av hans operor ... Skivan kan nästan avlyssnas som ett flersatsigt verk, en guidad tur till Schrekers planet, en värld fulld av symbolism, sensualitet, kärlek och död".