Elegie (Schoeck)
Elegie Op.36 is a 1922 song cycle for baritone and chamber orchestra by Othmar Schoeck. The cycle consists of 24 German-language settings of Lenau and Eichendorff. The Elegie is the earliest of Schoeck's song-cycles coming after his opera Venus (opera) (1919-21).[1]
Recordings
- Elegie Peter Lagger, Camerata Zürich, cond. Räto Tschupp, 1975
- Elegie Arthur Loosli, Berner Kammerensemble, cond. Theo Hug, Jecklin
- Elegie Klaus Mertens, Mutare Ensemble, Gerhard Müller-Hornbach, NCA 2003
- Elegie Andreas Schmidt, Musikkollegium Winterthur, cond. Werner Andreas Albert, CPO
References
- ↑ Chris Walton Othmar Schoeck: Life and Works 1580463002 - 2009 - Page 115 "Venus and the Elegie also provide the first intimation that Schoeck's gift for drama in music, with few exceptions, found its finest expression when it tended to monodrama. At the time that Schoeck wrote his Elegie, its modest instrumentation meant that it was not difficult to program, whereas today, an hour-long cycle with chamber orchestra is seen as too short for an evening's concert and too long for one half of a program. "
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