Schwarz-Schilling: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1

Featuring

José Serebrier
Staatskapelle Weimar
Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling

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Recording & Production

The Sinfonia diatonica on this album is a world première recording.

Performer Biography

José Serebrier, the conductor, is a GRAMMY-winner and one of the most recorded classical artists, with over 250 titles.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Schwarz-Schilling, the composer, never adopted the twelve-tone ideology, instead drawing on traditional forms like canon, fugue, and chorale in a personal way.

Composer Biography

Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling, the composer, received piano lessons at an early age from a pupil of Franz Liszt.

Performer Biography

Leopold Stokowski hailed José Serebrier, the conductor, as 'the greatest master of orchestral balance' when Serebrier was 21.

Historical Context

During the Nazi regime, an official falsified documents for Schwarz-Schilling's wife, Dusza von Hakrid, to conceal her Jewish ancestry and give her an 'Aryan' identity.

Composition History

The Introduction and Fugue for String Orchestra is a rearrangement of the first movement of Schwarz-Schilling's String Quartet in F minor, completed in 1932.