Hanns Eisler: Orchestral Works

Hanns Eisler (Composer), Mathias Husmann (Conductor), Magdeburgische Philharmonie (Orchestra)

Product Details

• Orchestra: Magdeburgische Philharmonie
• Conductor: Mathias Husmann
• Composer: Hanns Eisler
• Audio CD (January 25, 1995)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Cpo Records
• ASIN: B000001RT0
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Track Listings

1. I. Thema Mit 23 Variationen

2. II. Allegro Assai

3. III. Invention

4. IV. Allegro

5. I. Andante Con Moto

6. II. Molto Allegro

7. III. Thema Mit Variationen

8. I. Andante

9. II. Allegro

10. III. Kleine Passacaglia

11. IV. Presto

12. V. Finale. Improvisation

13. I. Invention

14. II. Choral-Bearbeitung

15. III. Scherzo

16. IV. Etude

17. V. Finale

18. Ov Zu Einem Lustspiel

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Twelve-tone music you can listen to, September 13, 2002

By	Andrew G. Lang (Cleveland, OH USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.