Hear music from Zemlinsky's two one-act operas based on works by Oscar Wilde. The American Symphony Orchestra, Leon Botstein, cond. It's been 65 years since the death of Viennese composer Alexander ...
If Alexander Zemlinsky’s music ever is to gain the foothold in the active repertory it deserves, it needs passionate advocates. It has found one in Ravinia music director James Conlon, who is arguing ...
The Escher Quartet's performance of one of Zemlinsky's greatest and most radical pieces is a highlight of this superb disc The first instalment of the Escher Quartet's survey of Zemlinsky, including ...
The University of Oregon School of Music and Dance frequently puts on free admission performances for students, and on Nov. 4, the School of Music welcomed the Zemlinsky Quartet, a world-renowned ...
For his program with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on Wednesday night at Ravinia, James Conlon tied together several key elements from his 11 years as music director of the CSO’s festival residencies ...
ALEXANDER VON ZEMLINSKY: Lyric Symphony, op. 18. Roman Trekel, baritone and Twyla Robinson, soprano; Houston Symphony conducted by Hans Graf. ALBAN BERG: Three Pieces from Lyric Suite (arranged for ...
Vladimir Jurowski has long been an advocate of Alexander Zemlinsky (1871-1942), regularly programming his music alongside that of Gustav Mahler, whom Zemlinsky idolised, and with whose wife Alma he ...
Brahms is the dominant spirit behind four early chamber works from the 1890s by Alexander Zemlinsky. Zemlinsky was criticised, praised and helped by Brahms, and seems to have had elements of the older ...
David Kuebler, Patricia Racette, Iride Martinez, Andreas Schmidt; Chorus of the Cologne Conservatory, Gurzenich-Orchester Kolner conducted by James Conlon EMI Classics, $33.99 (two discs) . Alexander ...
Zemlinsky wrote to Schoenberg that “a great artist…must respect the boundaries of beauty, even if he extends them far further than hitherto”. That seems an apt description for his own string quartets.