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Thursday, October 17, 2019

Karl Weigl - Symphony No. 1; Pictures and Tales (Jürgen Bruns)


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Composer: Karl Weigl
  • (01) Symphony No. 1 in E major, Op. 5
  • (05) Pictures and Tales - Suite, Op. 2

Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz
Jürgen Bruns, conductor

Date: 2019
Label: Capriccio
http://capriccio.at/karl-weigl-symphony-no-1-pictures-and-tales

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Review

Born in 1881, Karl Weigl received lessons from Zemlinsky as a teenager, studied alongside Webern at the University of Vienna, was repetiteur and assistant to Mahler at the Vienna Court Opera and taught composition to pupils including Korngold, Eisler and Zeischl. Following the Anschluss of Austria with Germany in 1938, he fled with his family to the United States, where he continued to compose and held a number of teaching positions until his death in 1949.

Considering Weigl’s personal associations, including a close friendship with Schoenberg, not to mention the remarkable developments taking place in the Viennese musical scene of the time, the First Symphony is a surprisingly conservative affair for a work composed in 1908. Indeed, the music’s almost total avoidance of chromaticism and general lack of harmonic sophistication is more suggestive of a piece written several decades earlier. The writing is for the most part tuneful and well constructed rather than distinctive or inspiring, although a degree of Dvořákian radiance and charm makes for a pleasant listen in the third-placed slow movement.

Composed for piano in 1909 and orchestrated in 1922, Pictures and Tales is a six-part suite of miniatures depicting scenes from fairy tales. As in the symphony, the work’s musical idiom harks back to earlier times, the second and sixth pieces especially suggestive of the influence of Mendelssohn. The fourth movement, an easeful lullaby, is particularly charming. Taken as a whole, however, this is not music that I found particularly memorable, despite the lively and engaging performances from conductor Jürgen Bruns.

-- Christian Hoskins, Gramophone

More reviews:
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2019/May/Weigl_sy1_C5365.htm
http://www.classicalmusicsentinel.com/KEEP/weigl.html
https://www.amazon.com/Symphony-1-DEUTSCHE-STAATSPHILHARMONIE-RHEINLAND-PFALZ/dp/B07PK6MXHG

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Karl Weigl (6 February 1881 – 11 August 1949) was an Austrian composer. Weigl was born in Vienna and was a private pupil of Alexander Zemlinsky. He continued his studies at the Vienna Music Academy, where he became a composition pupil of Robert Fuchs, and also enrolled at the University of Vienna, studying musicology under Guido Adler. When the Nazis occupied Austria, in 1938, Weigl emigrated to the United States of America with his family. Weigl wrote many compositions including symphonies, chamber music pieces including string quartets, and songs for solo piano.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Weigl

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Jürgen Bruns (born 1966 in Greifswald) is a German conductor. Bruns studied violin and conducting at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin, as well as with Gilbert Varga (Florence) and Charles Bruck (Paris). He is the artistic director and chief conductor of the Kammersymphonie Berlin, which he founded in 1991. Since 2019 Bruns has also been chief conductor and music director of the Prussian Chamber Orchestra. A regular guest conductor with orchestras and stages throughout Europe, Bruns specializes in the repertoire of the 20th century, from Neoclassicism to contemporary music.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Bruns
http://juergenfbruns.de/

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