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Hanns Eisler: Orchestral Works
Hanns Eisler, Mathias Husmann, Magdeburg Philharmonic
Hanns Eisler: Orchestral Works
Genre: Classical
 
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All Artists: Hanns Eisler, Mathias Husmann, Magdeburg Philharmonic
Title: Hanns Eisler: Orchestral Works
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Cpo Records
Release Date: 1/25/1995
Genre: Classical
Styles: Historical Periods, Modern, 20th, & 21st Century, Symphonies
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 761203907120
 

CD Reviews

Twelve-tone music you can listen to
Andrew G. Lang | Cleveland, OH USA | 09/13/2002
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Hanns Eisler's great passion in life was music that could communicate. His experiments in the twelve-tone method he learned from his teacher, Schoenberg, show that this style--which is still opaque to many concert goers even after nearly eighty years as a musical idiom--can reach the listener on more than an intellectual plane.The brief "Chamber Symphony" is identical in orchestration to Eisler's film score for "White Flood"--a 1941 documentary on the Arctic Ocean. Using electronic instruments (which in the early 40s was an unusual move for a classical composer)in combination with a small chamber orchestra, the music communicates the slow but powerful forces that shaped the Arctic ice sheet. The equally brief "Small Symphony" was composed during a break during a time when Eisler was otherwise occupied with revolutionary politics in Weimar-Republic Berlin. Combining avant-garde with traditional tonality, it is one of the composer's most engaging works."