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Lapland CO, John Storgards, Jenny Carlstedt - Alexander von Zemlinsky: Seven Songs; Chamber Symphony (2016)

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Lapland CO, John Storgards, Jenny Carlstedt - Alexander von Zemlinsky: Seven Songs; Chamber Symphony (2016)

Alexander von Zemlinsky: Seven Songs of Night and Dream; Chamber Symphony (2016)
Lapland Chamber Orchestra; John Storgårds, conductor; Jenny Carlstedt, mezzo-soprano

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Genre: Classical | Label: Ondine | # ODE 1272-2 | Time: 01:01:22

Ondine is proud to release these world premiere recordings of two new Zemlinsky arrangements by Richard Dünser (b. 1959) with Lapland Chamber Orchestra conducted by John Storgårds.

The works of Austrian composer Alexander Zemlinsky (1871-1942) - much admired by composers such as Mahler, Schoenberg and Berg - have gained more attention during the last decades. He wrote only 27 works with an opus number, but several of them can be considered among 20th century masterpieces.

In 2013 composer Richard Dünser (b. 1959), pupil of Francis Burt and Hans Werner Henze, made two new rich arrangements of works by Zemlinsky. Seven Songs of Night and Dream (Sieben Lieder von Nacht und Traum) is an orchestration of songs from opp. 2, 5, 6, 8 and 10 based on the themes of night and dream. In this recording the songs are sung by mezzo-soprano Jenny Carlstedt. Chamber Symphony is a 40-minute orchestration of Zemlinsky's String Quartet No. 2. In this orchestration the limitations of a string quartet is set free by using a larger ensemble. Zemlinsky's String Quartet contains references to the works of his most famous pupil, Arnold Schoenberg.

This release is a second Zemlinsky recording by John Storgårds on Ondine. John Storgårds, one of Finland's exceptional artists, has taken the classical music world by storm in recent decades. Since 2008, Storgårds has been Chief Conductor of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor of BBC Philharmonic Orchestra since 2012. The latest releases by Storgårds on Ondine include the complete symphonies of Leevi Madetoja (ODE 1211-2, ODE 1212-2), the Shostakovich Violin Concertos together with Christian Tetzlaff (ODE 1239-2), discs of works by Zemlinsky (ODE 1237-5) and Rolf Wallin (ODE 1267-2D) and two recordings with soprano Soile Isokoski (ODE 1252-2, ODE 1261-2).

In contrast to his colleague Schoenberg, Alexander Zemlinsky was not attracted to writing works for large-scale chamber ensembles, preferring instead the rich sonorities of the late-Romantic symphony orchestra. Yet there’s little doubt that some of his music for more intimate forces works particularly well in orchestral guise. This is certainly the case with many of his early songs which are steeped in the tradition of Brahms but contain some exotic harmonies that seem closer to Mahler.

Austrian composer Richard Dünser has orchestrated seven of these miniatures to form a very convincing song cycle exploring the themes of night and dreams. Mezzo-soprano Jenny Carlstedt delivers Zemlinsky’s highly expressive vocal lines with great warmth and sensitivity, and the Lapland Chamber Orchestra under John Storgårds provides suitably intimate accompaniments. Dünser’s recasting of the epic Second String Quartet for the same instrumental forces as Schoenberg’s First Chamber Symphony is also effectively managed through some skilful doubling between the wind and string parts. Occasionally I wondered whether he could have created textures with a bit more contrapuntal transparency in the manner of Schoenberg, but this would probably have necessitated adding supplementary part-writing that is not in Zemlinsky’s original score. Nevertheless, the arrangement certainly conveys the Quartet’s fraught emotional intensity, and the Lapland Chamber Orchestra negotiates its technical challenges very convincingly, though some of the faster sections could have been projected with a greater sense of reckless abandon.

Review by Erik Levi, BBC Music Magazine

Zemlinsky wrote neither a Chamber Symphony nor a song-cycle entitled Sieben Lieder von Nacht und Traum, and the works recorded here are arrangements of his music by the Austrian composer Richard Dünser (b1959). The Chamber Symphony is a version of the Second String Quartet using the same orchestration as Schoenberg’s First Chamber Symphony. Sieben Lieder von Nacht und Traum, meanwhile, reworks seven of Zemlinsky’s early songs with piano accompaniment into a meditation on night, sex and death for a ‘middle voice’ capable of encompassing Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder and scored for comparable forces.

The Chamber Symphony proves problematic. The booklet-notes argue that the dimensions of the Second String Quartet ‘urge beyond the limits of the instrumental medium’, an ambiguous statement, since its arching single-movement structure and tortured chromaticism, together with the immense challenges it presents its players, constitute a deliberate engagement with extremes of form, harmony and technique. Any attempt at instrumental expansion consequently runs the risk of dissipating the tensions on which it depends, which proves to be the case here, despite Dünser’s skilful adaptation. Zemlinsky himself wrote nothing for chamber orchestra, though Dünser offers a fair approximation of how things might have sounded if he had. But the emotional tone changes in the process. Brass and woodwind alternately console and energise, where the original is bleak, sparse and enervated. John Storgårds’s performance with his Lapland Chamber Orchestra is finely shaped and beautifully played, but still leaves you with mixed feelings.

Sieben Lieder however, really impresses. The original songs date from 1896 to 1901 and Dünser’s orchestrations reflect their debts to Mahler and Schoenberg. ‘Der Traum’ finds Zemlinsky imitating Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, and Dünser’s instrumetation happily follows suit. ‘Und hat der Tag all seine Qual’, to a text by Jens Peter Jacobsen, glows like one of Tove’s songs from Gurrelieder, which also takes Jacobsen as its source. Dünser sometimes plays down the influence of Brahms on Zemlinsky’s original piano-writing, but even so, it proves a remarkably effective cycle which deserves repeated hearings. It’s beautifully sung here by dark-voiced mezzo Jenny Carlstedt, while Storgårds mines the lapidary accompaniments for all they are worth.

Review by Tim Ashley, Gramophone

Lapland CO, John Storgards, Jenny Carlstedt - Alexander von Zemlinsky: Seven Songs; Chamber Symphony (2016)



Lapland CO, John Storgards, Jenny Carlstedt - Alexander von Zemlinsky: Seven Songs; Chamber Symphony (2016)



rec. Korundi House of Culture, Rovaniemi, Finland, 23-24 January 2015

Tracklist:

Alexander von ZEMLINSKY (1871-1942)

Seven Songs of Night and Dream (1895-1901)
(arr. 2013, Richard Dünser)
01. 1. Der Traum (1:57)
02. 2. Das verlassene Mädchen (2:25)
03. 3. Um Mitternacht (3:48)
04. 4. Schlaf nur ein (2:46)
05. 5. Und hat der Tag all seine Qual (3:47)
06. 6. Ich geh' des Nachts (0:51)
07. 7. Vöglein Schwermut (3:03)

Chamber Symphony (1913-1915)
(arr. of String Quartet No. 2 in 2013 by Richard Dünser)

08. I. Sehr mässig (quasi andante) - Heftig und leidenschaftlich (11:33)
09. II. Adagio (9:02)
10. III. Schnell (die Achtel) (5:59)
11. IV. Andante (10:34)
12. V. Langsam (5:37)


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Lapland CO, John Storgards, Jenny Carlstedt - Alexander von Zemlinsky: Seven Songs; Chamber Symphony (2016)

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