Schreker Complete Orchestral Works vol.1

[Kevin]

Ah.  So, if it's not worth *your* time, surely it's not worth ours.

Maybe for me it's combination of poor eyesight, bad translation, and being dumb is the reason I find it frustrating.

[Alan Howe]

Just click on 'Vorschau'! How hard can it be?

And with that, back to the Schreker release.

[brendangcarroll]

Thank you Alan for this splendid news. A new Schreker series is very welcome indeed.

[Alan Howe]

Indeed it is.

[adriano]

https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/cpo/detail/-/art/franz-schreker-saemtliche-orchesterwerke-vol-1/hnum/3552125

The CD comes up with some rarities.
The very elaborate liner notes are by Eckhardt van den Hoogen - who also adds an introductory "personal note", making up 2 of 9 pages of a microscopically set text.
(I shouldn't criticise, since some of my Fritz Brun notes are also quite long - but this is the case of a totally unknown composer, not a quite well-known one like Schreker - on which already many books and tons of essays have been written).

Incidentally, it took 6 years for this cpo CD to be issued!

[Alan Howe]

Hi Adriano: you'll see that I've merged your post with the existing thread on this subject.

I have the new CD. It's not all that special, in my view - especially that dreary torso of a symphony. The orchestra's OK, but you really need a top-notch band to do this music justice.

[adriano]

Thanks, Alan, sorry I did not find this older thread at first
I am quite disappointed by this rather uninspired CD too.
The performances are well done, but everything has no real athmosphere... In the "Birthday of the Infanta" Suite I miss the necessary Jugendstil, magic and transparence. It all sounds rather rough and in various places the sound balance of some instrumental groups sounds very odd...

[Alan Howe]

I don't think the Sloane/Bochum combination is up to the job. A rather uninspiring release.

[der79sebas]

I am also rather disappointed by the CD. Technically, everything sounds ok, but there is a COMPLETE lack of atmosphere. E.g. the great "Festwalzer" does not at all sound like (the ironic version of) an opulent Viennese waltz, but more like a quite reserved English waltz.