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Burger: Orchestral Music

The Classical Shop
release date: July 2008

Originally recorded in 2008
Artists:

Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin


Simone Young


Michael Kraus

baritone

Maya Beiser

cello

Venue:

Jesus Christus Kirche, Berlin-Dahlem



Producer:

Michael Haas


Ronald S. Pohl

(Associate)

Martin Anderson

(Executive)

Engineer:

Toni Fiedler


Gabriele Starke


Tim Wood



Record Label
Toccata

Genre:

Orchestral & Concertos




Total Time - 58:44
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JULIUS BERGER

(1897-1995)
   
1 

Stille der Nacht

 10:55
  for baritone and orchestra  
 Michael Kraus baritone
 

Cello Concerto

 32:14  
2 

Scherzo for Strings

 5:02
   
3 I Allegro 2:22
4 II Adagio 4:42
5 III Allegro vivace 4:42
 Maya Beiser cello
 

Variations on a Theme of Karl Philipp Emanuel Bach

 19:03  
6 Theme, Andante grazioso 1:16
7 Var. I, Energico 1:27
8 Var. II, Allegro moderato 0:51
9 Var. III, Lento 0:48
10 Var. IV, Presto alla breve 1:07
11 Var. V, Giusto tempo 2:01
12 Var. VI, Vivace 0:42
13 Var. VII, Andante sostenuto 2:24
14 Var. VIII, Allegretto, grazioso 0:39
15 Var. IX, Allegro 0:50
16 Var. X, Adagio 2:26
17 Var. XI, Scherzo (Presto) 1:11
18 Coda, Solenne 2:36
   
19 

Legende

 12:43
  for baritone and orchestra  
 Michael Kraus baritone


Julius Burger, born in Vienna in 1897, studied with Franz Schreker in Berlin in the 1920s, establishing a successful career as conductor and accompanist before the advent of Hitler sent him into US exile in 1938; he died in New York in 1995. His music – in which one can hear something of Schreker and Korngold, his exact contemporary, as well as echoes of Mahler and Zemlinsky – shows a mastery of the late-Romantic orchestra. The two songs on this CD display an exquisite sense of melody, and his Cello Concerto – the slow movement of which was dedicated to his mother, who was murdered on her way to Auschwitz – shares with Bloch’s Schelomo a concern with Jewish melisma.

‘This disc of discovery from Toccata Classics will introduce you to some of his vocal and orchestral music, which has remained in obscurity far too long. […] Baritone Michael Kraus is in fine voice for both songs, and cellist Maya Beiser delivers a sensitive, totally committed performance of the concerto. The Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra under Simone Young provides superb support for both soloists, and delivers what will probably be definitive performances of this rare repertoire for some time to come.’

Bob McQuiston

Classical Lost and Found - 15 January 2008

‘...a composer who is well remembered by these fine recordings’

Patric Standford
 

Music & Vision Daily - February 2008

"...It is then a real coup for Toccata Classics to be issuing this notable music. The comprehensive annotation, photographs, first-class sound (capturing ideally Burger’s luminous scoring) and the wholly excellent performances further ensure that this issue gets a ‘record of the year’ status. No question!"

Colin Anderson
 

Classical Source

"...All the performances are outstanding. The recording is first class as well and Toccata’s documentation serves as a model for how an unknown composer should be presented in biographical and musical form. Burger’s was a keen voice, not necessarily either original or ground breaking, but one which presented a strong musical blood line, finely absorbed, excellently orchestrated, thematically interesting, dramatically convincing, and expressively controlled yet eloquent. A composer well worth getting to know, especially in performances as expert as these."

Jonathan Woolf 
 

MusicWeb International - January 2008



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