Vienna - Joyful Apocalypse / Aurélien Pontier

$35.56
Label
WARNER CLASSICS
Release Date
August 9, 2024
Format
Added to Cart! View cart or continue shopping.


    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Alfred Grünfeld, Leopold Godowsky, Otto Schulhof, Sergej Rachmaninoff, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Johann Strauss II, Fritz Kreisler, Franz Schubert, Adolf Schulz-Evler, Franz Liszt, Gustav Mahler, Arnold Schönberg, Maurice Ravel
    • PERFORMER
      Aurélien Pontier
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 09, 2024
    • UPC
      5054197633492
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      WCL763349.2
    • LABEL
      WARNER CLASSICS
    • GENRE
      Classical Vocals

A veritable musical metaphor for the suicide of Europe that was the Great War, both apotheosis and apocalypse. We also hear evocations of Schubert, Liszt, Mahler and Kreisler, all imbued with a kind of nostalgia that belongs only to this mythical city. - Aurélien Pontier

Dedicated to the last years of Imperial Vienna, which gave rise to an artistic effervescence unique in European history. The program opens with a piano transcription of Strauss's Die Fledermaus and ends with Ravel's La Valse.