Franz Schreker

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A very welcome imminent (13th June) two-disc release from Brilliant Classics will restore important recordings of Schreker rarities to the catalogue:



Brilliant Classics 94237

This is an amalgamation of two Capriccio discs (10850 and 67063, the latter still possibly available, but the former long deleted and hard to track down) and thus contains several fascinating scores, including the Symphony in A minor (1899), Psalm 116 (1900) for female chorus and orchestra, Schwanengesang (1902) for mixed chorus and orchestra, and the gripping melodrama Das Weib des Intaphernes (1932-3). Unfortunately when the autograph score of the Symphony was rediscovered the final movement was found to be missing, but the work plays convincingly enough in it's three surviving movements and it is given an assured performance here.

A very economical way to acquire these otherwise-unavailable Schreker works, the lowest pre-release price for the new set is possibly the £6.95 advertised at MDT.