Joseph Marx - Serenaden; Partita; Sinfonia (Steven Sloane)

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Composer: Joseph Marx

• (01) Alt-Wiener Serenaden
• (05) Partita in modo antico
• (09) Sinfonia in modo classico

Bochum Symphony Orchestra
Steven Sloane, conductor

Date: 2004
Label: ASV

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Review

A composer who refused to give up on a bygone, more elegant age

Conductor Steven Sloane has been taking up the cause of Joseph Marx, perhaps better known for his songs than for his orchestral music. Throughout his life (1882-1964) Marx remained a firm upholder of the great Viennese classical tradition, a loyalty that came to dominate an earlier, more chromatic and sumptuous idiom. These three pieces are not so much pastiches as re-entries into a world whose manners and techniques he well understood. The Partita is the most obviously classical, though it has an individual flavour chiefly through Marx’s skilfully assimilated use of some of the old church modes. The Sinfonia and in particular the Serenade are amiable reflections on a world which Marx did not believe was lost – even in the 1940s – but perhaps the more urgently needed recreating. Sloane and the Bochum players give the music an agreeable poise and stability; it falls easily on the ear, and could give much pleasure.

-- John Warrack, Gramophone

More reviews:
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2004/nov04/Marx3.htm
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2004/Dec04/Marx_orchestral3.htm
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2005/Sep05/Marx_CDDCA1158.htm
https://www.allmusic.com/album/joseph-marx-alt-wiener-serenaden-partita-in-modo-antico-sinfonia-in-modo-classico-mw0001391601
https://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=92883
https://www.amazon.com/Marx-Orchestral-Alt-Wiener-Serenaden-Sinfonia/dp/B00064WSL4

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Joseph Marx (May 11, 1882 - September 3, 1964) was an Austrian composer, teacher and critic. He studied philosophy, art history, German studies, and music at Graz University, earning several degrees including a doctorate. As a composer Marx is chiefly remembered for his vocal music contributions, particularly his more than 150 lieder, with about two dozen of them used symphonic accompaniment. His style is characterized by Slavonic and Italian elements, often with an impressionistic kind of lyricism. His "Romantic Piano Concerto" was Jorge Bolet's favorite among the great virtuoso concertos.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Marx

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Steven Sloane (born 1958 in Los Angeles, California) is an American conductor, currently based in Germany. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a degree in music. Separately, he also took conducting lessons with Eugene Ormandy, Franco Ferrara and Gary Bertini. Sloane has been music director of the Bochum Symphony Orchestra since 1994. He was also music director of the Frankfurt Opera (1989-1994), the Spoleto Festival USA (1996-2000), the Opera North (1999-2002), the American Composers Orchestra (2002-2006) and the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra (2007-2013).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Sloane
http://stevensloane.de

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