Julius Burger: Orchestral Music
Julius Burger, born in Vienna in 1897, studied with Franz Schreker in Berlin in the 1920s, establishing a successful career as conductor and accompanist before the advent of Hitler sent him into US exile in 1938; he died in New York in 1995. His music – in which one can hear something of Schreker and Korngold, his exact contemporary, as well as echoes of Mahler and Zemlinsky – shows a mastery of the late-Romantic orchestra. The two songs on this CD display an exquisite sense of melody, and his Cello Concerto – the slow movement of which was dedicated to his mother, who was murdered on her way to Auschwitz – shares with Bloch’s Schelomo a concern with Jewish melisma.
Michael Kraus, baritone
Maya Beiser, cello
Radio Symphonie Orchester, Berlin, orchestra
Simone Young, conductor
Listen To This Recording:
- Stille der Nacht, for baritone and orchestra
- Scherzo for Strings
- I. Allegro
- II. Adagio
- III. Allegro vivace
- Theme, Andante grazioso
- Variation I, Energico
- Variation II, Allegro moderato
- Variation III, Lento
- Variation IV, Presto alla breve
- Variation V, Giusto tempo
- Variation VI, Vivace
- Variation VII, Andante sostenuto
- Variation VIII, Allegretto, grazioso
- Variation IX, Allegro
- Variation X, Adagio
- Variation XI, Scherzo (Presto)
- Coda, Solenne
- Legende, for baritone and orchestra
Cello Concerto
Variations on a Theme of Karl Philipp Emanuel Bach
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Patric Standford :
“The booklet is informative, though timings for the Cello Concerto are oddly quite wrong. This is a composer who is well remembered by these fine recordings.” —Patric Standford, Music & Vision
Bob McQuiston :
“It is then a real coup for Toccata Classics to be issuing this notable music. The comprehensive annotation, photographs, first-class sound (capturing ideally Burger’s luminous scoring) and the wholly excellent performances further ensure that this issue gets a ‘record of the year’ status. No question!” —Bob McQuiston, Classical Lost and Found