Schmidt - Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln
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Label: Chandos
Cat No: CHSA50612
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 3rd March 2008
Contents
Artists
Johannes Chum (tenor)Robert Holl (bass baritone)
Sandra Trattnigg (soprano)
Michelle Breedt (mezzo-soprano)
Nikolai Schukoff (tenor)
Manfred Hemm (bass)
Robert Kovacs (organ)
Wiener Singverein
Tonkunstler Orchester Niederosterreich
Conductor
Kristjan JarviWorks
Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln (The Book of Seven Seals)Artists
Johannes Chum (tenor)Robert Holl (bass baritone)
Sandra Trattnigg (soprano)
Michelle Breedt (mezzo-soprano)
Nikolai Schukoff (tenor)
Manfred Hemm (bass)
Robert Kovacs (organ)
Wiener Singverein
Tonkunstler Orchester Niederosterreich
Conductor
Kristjan JarviAbout
Schmidt composed his oratorio Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln in 1935-7, when Schmidt’s health was quickly failing and with a particularly keen sense of his own mortality. The composition wittingly or unwittingly seems to tap into the feelings of the time, and his apocalyptic visions soon became realities.
It was written at a time when the opposite poles of contemporary music were represented by the internationally renowned music of Schoenberg and Stravinsky. Their pioneering styles seemed at the time to be mutually exclusive and left little room for those who did not obviously adhere to one camp or the other.
Sadly, Schmidt’s music seemed a highly conservative continuation of an outmoded romanticism, greatly influenced by his teachers Bruckner and Fuchs and his Hungarian origins. Today, with the benefit of hindsight, it is precisely Schmidt’s refusal to pander to modernistic trends that endows his distinctive contribution to twentieth-century music with a refreshing integrity and individuality and Das Buch is now, justifiably, seen as one of the greatest epic works of the Twentieth Century.
The Tonkünstler Orchestra is one of the most important institutions of Austrian musical culture, exploring not only repertoire based on almost a hundred years of history, but also exploring new or unfamiliar works from the past three centuries under its principal conductor, Kristjan Järvi.
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