Ulf Wallin, Werner Andreas Albert, Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz - Richard Wetz: Violin Concerto (2004)
Ulf Wallin, Werner Andreas Albert, Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz - Richard Wetz: Violin Concerto, Traumsommernacht, Hyperion (2004)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 232 Mb | Total time: 52:11 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 999 933-2 | Recorded: 2003
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 232 Mb | Total time: 52:11 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 999 933-2 | Recorded: 2003
Violin Concerto was Wetz’s final large-scale work, and is one of, if not the best work in this collection. Cast in one movement but divided into four tracks on the CD, it sounds fantastic in the capable hands of Ulf Wallin, who relishes this work’s eloquence. There isn’t a huge amount of virtuoso writing for the soloist, and soaring lyrical shapes are more of a feature. Even the cadenza moments are more like ‘monologue’ passages with the orchestra never entirely receding, but with Wetz’s harmonic richness there is a great deal to get your teeth stuck into with this concerto, and indeed few passages where you have the feeling things could move along a bit quicker. As with the symphony you won’t come away with particularly memorable themes stuck in your head, but with this concerto there is a freedom of expression that is quite compelling throughout, and the section at track 4 is sublime. This comes before a rousing penultimate section with cadenza and a final coda – not the strongest of endings, but you’ll want to hear it all again quite soon.
Traumsommernacht for female choir and orchestra sets a poem by Otto Julius Bierbaum, and summed up in the booklet as “enchanting, feathery floating along as if on musical waterlilies between Beardsley’s slender lady vines and Franz Schrecker’s almost exactly contemporaneous Schwanensang…” Hyperion on a text by Friedrich Hölderlin for baritone solo, chorus and orchestra, is more substantial, with a mildly Wagnerian air at its background but by no means as filled with tension and heightened stresses. Wetz’s creative process followed a pattern of inactivity, and then an upwelling of inspiration in which he be came compelled to write whatever the muse dictated. Hyperion is one of those works that defies easy categorisation perhaps for that reason, being neither a cantata not a typical orchestral song – the easiest comparison might be to a vocal movement by Mahler, but even here the parallels are tenuous. There is no difficulty with the actual music however, which has passages of impressionistic beauty and moments of dramatic climax which are capably carried by all performers, Markus Köhler’s solo being admirably restrained and clear.–Dominy Clements
Performer:
Ulf Wallin, violin
Markus Köhler, baritone
Kammerchor der Musikhochule Augsburg
Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz
Werner Andreas Albert, conductor
Tracklist:
Richard Wetz (1875-1935)
Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. 57
01. I. Etwas gehalten
02. II. Ruhig und ausdrucksvoll
03. III. Straff und entschieden
04. IV. Im ersten Zeitmass
05. Traumsommernacht, Op.14
06. Hyperion, Op. 32
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Ulf Wallin, Werner Andreas Albert, Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz - Richard Wetz: Violin Concerto (2004)
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