Ulster Orchestra - Kurt Weill- Symphony No. 2 & Violin Concerto, Op.12 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Although Weill found fame in theatre-focused collaborations with Bertolt Brecht that produced the era-defining The Threepenny Opera, the onetime pupil of Ferruccio Busoni straddled the worlds of music-theatre, jazz, and the concert hall with music of daring aplomb and dazzling achievement.

Dedicated to Joseph Szigeti, his five-movement Violin Concerto of 1924 also pays tribute to the ailing Busoni and sports discernible allusions to Stravinsky, Mahler and the potent popular music of Weimar Berlin’s cabaret clubs. A unique blend, as Robert Matthew-Walker comments in his authoritative booklet notes: "No comparable work had appeared before from any composer".

Composed a decade later, the Second Symphony was premiered by Bruno Walter and the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam. In three movements, “Weill’s contrapuntal mastery and his equally unselfconscious command of instrumentation present us with genuinely symphonic music, such as a 20th-century Haydn would have appreciated and enjoyed”.

TRACKLIST

1. Ulster Orchestra - I. Sostenuto - Allegro molto
2. Ulster Orchestra - II. Largo
3. Ulster Orchestra - III. Allegro vivace
4. Tamás Kocsis - I. Andante con moto
5. Tamás Kocsis - IIa. Notturno. Allegro un poco tenuto
6. Tamás Kocsis - IIb. Cadenza. Moderato
7. Tamás Kocsis - IIc. Serenata. Allegretto
8. Tamás Kocsis - III. Allegro molto, un poco agitato



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