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Kienzl / Muller / Schmitt - Four Song-Cycles

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Format: CD
Rel. Date: 08/02/2024
UPC: 5060113447364

Four Song-Cycles
Artist: Kienzl / Muller / Schmitt
Format: CD
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The Austrian composer Wilhelm Kienzl (1857-1941) - also a pianist, conductor, musicologist and writer on music - enjoyed the esteem of his contemporaries particularly for his vocal music. But his star has waned over the past century, and only a handful of his 238 songs have had recent recordings. In style they range from the simple and folk-like to the dramatic and quasi-operatic; their harmonic world likewise embraces both the diatonic and chromatic, with hints of the influence of Schubert, Schumann and Brahms and a foretaste of later composers. The four song-cycles recorded here treat the grand themes of life: love, loss, death and man's interaction with nature.
        
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