"Would the GDR have wanted us to hear something quintessentially East German across all these pieces? If there’s any common characteristic, it’s that they’re all somber and angular, hovering between Romantic free atonality and chapter-and-verse serialism."
(source: La Folia)CD 1:
Hanns Eisler (1898-1962):
Fünf Orchesterstücke
Kammersinfonie, Op. 69
Paul Dessau (1894-1979):
In memoriam Bertold Brecht
Orchestermusik no 2 "Meer der Stürme"
Leipziger Kammermusikvereinigung des Gewandhausorchester
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester Leipzig
Max Pommer - conductor
Paul Dessau - conductor
Herbert Kegel - conductor
CD 2:
Rudolf Wagner-Régeny (1903-1969):
Drei Orchestersätze
Einleitung und Ode für symphonisches Orchester
Max Butting (1888-1976):
Sinfonie Nr.9 op.94
Berliner Sinfonie-Orchester
Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin
Hans-Peter Frank - conductor
Kurt Sanderling - conductor
Franz Konwitschny - conductor
CD 3:
Johann Cilenšek 1913-1998):
Sinfonie Nr.4
Fritz Geissler (1921-1984):
Sinfonie Nr.2
Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester Leipzig
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Herbert Kegel - conductor
Václav Neumann - conductor
CD 4:
Siegfried Matthus (b.1934):
Sinfonie Nr.2
Friedrich Goldmann (1941-2009):
Sinfonie Nr.1
Georg Katzer (b.1935):
Konzert für Orchester Nr.1
Orchester der Komischen Oper Berlin
Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester Leipzig
Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin
Siegfried Matthus - conductor
Herbert Kegel - conductor
Wolf-Dieter Hauschild - conductor
CD 5:
Manfred Schubert (b.1937):
Sinfonie Nr.1
Manfred Weiss (b.1935):
Sinfonie Nr.3
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Staatskapelle Dresden
Kurt Masur - conductor
Herbert Blomstedt - conductor
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