Alexander Zemlinsky - Sinfonietta; Six Maeterlinck Songs (Various Artists)

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Composer: Alexander Zemlinsky

• Sinfonietta, Op. 23
• Sechs Maeterlinck-Gesänge, Op. 13
• Der König Kandaules, Op. 26: Vorspiel & Monolog from Act 3

Petra Lang, soprano

Siegfried Lorenz, baritone

ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

Susanna Mälkki & Gerd Albrecht, conductor

Date: 2020

Label: Capriccio

http://capriccio.at/alexander-zemlinsky-m%C3%A4llkki

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Alexander Zemlinsky (October 14, 1871 – March 15, 1942) was an Austrian composer, conductor, and teacher. Among his teachers at the Vienna Conservatory are Robert Fuchs and Anton Bruckner. His best-known work is the Lyric Symphony, which Zemlinsky himself compared to Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde. Other works include the large-scale fantasy Die Seejungfrau, a three-movement Sinfonietta, eight operas, three psalm settings, and numerous song cycles. As a conductor, Zemlinsky was admired by Kurt Weill and Stravinsky. As a teacher, his pupils included Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Hans Krása and Karl Weigl.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_von_Zemlinsky

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Susanna Mälkki (born 13 March 1969 in Helsinki) is a Finnish conductor and cellist. She studied cello with Hannu Kiiski, and later studied conducting with Jorma Panula, Eri Klas, and Leif Segerstam at the Sibelius Academy. From 1995 to 1998, she was principal cellist in the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, then left the position to devote herself to conducting. Mälkki is known as a specialist in contemporary music, conducting several world premieres and opera productions, such as the Finnish premiere of Thomas Adès' Powder Her Face in 1999. She was chief conductor of the Helsinki Philharmonic from 2016 to 2023.

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

https://susannamalkki.com/

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Gerd Albrecht (19 July 1935 – 2 February 2014) was a German conductor. He was born in Essen and studied music in Kiel and Hamburg. His first post was as a repetiteur at the Stuttgart State Opera. Later, he became Senior Kapellmeister at the Staatstheater Mainz, and Generalmusikdirektor in Lübeck. He also held posts at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich and the Hamburg State Opera. Albrecht was first non-Czech conductor that was appointed as principal conductor of the Czech Philharmonic. From 2000 to 2004, he was principal conductor of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra.

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

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