Schreker: The Birthday of the Infanta - Suite / Falletta, Berlin Radio Symphony

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
October 12, 2018
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      SCHREKER, FRANZ
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Falletta
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 12, 2018
    • UPC
      747313382170
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8573821
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Vorspiel zu einem Drama

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    2. I. Reigen

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    3. II. Aufzug und Kampfspiel

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    4. III. Die Marionetten

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    5. IV. Menuett der Tänzerknaben

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    6. V. Die Tänze des Zwerges

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    7. VI. Mit dem Wind im Frühling

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    8. VII. In blauen Sandalen über das Korn

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    9. VIII. Im roten Gewand im Herbst

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    10. IX. Die Rose der Infantin

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    11. X. Nachklang

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    12. I. Idylle

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    13. II. Scherzo

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    14. III. Intermezzo

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    15. IV. Tanz

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta


Franz Schreker was a prominent figure in early 20th-century Austro-German music, his reputation as an opera composer rivaling that of Richard Strauss. The Prelude to a Drama is the concert overture of Schreker’s acclaimed opera Die Gezeichneten, a lurid drama involving murder and madness. Conceived as a theatrical pantomime, The Birthday of the Infanta adapts Oscar Wilde’s tragic tale of an ugly dwarf who dies of a broken heart, while the Romantic Suite fully explores the composer’s colorfully detailed and translucent orchestration and lyrical expressiveness. The Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra dates back to the beginnings of music broadcasting in 1923. Since then it has developed its position to become one of Berlin’s top orchestras, and today is ranked in the highest echelon of German radio orchestras. JoAnn Falletta became the first female conductor to lead a major American ensemble upon her appointment as music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra in 1999.

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REVIEW:

Falletta obtains excellent playing from the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra with enormous climatic moments, opportunities for which are readily at hand in his late-Romantic, opulent orchestral scores. The sound quality from the German Radio is way beyond today’s norm. Unreservedly recommended.

– David's Review Corner (David Denton)