Michael Sanderling, the Principal Conductor of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, has a long-standing successful collaboration with the orchestra, aiming to explore Late Romantic repertoire.
Composer Biography
Maurice Ravel, a composer on this album, drew inspiration from a wide variety of folk melodies throughout his life, including those from France, the Basque country, and Greece.
Compositional Technique
In Ernest Bloch's Schelomo, the solo cello represents a preacher, while the orchestra represents his people, engaging in a dialogue that includes agitated and aggressive passages.
Cultural Impact
Max Bruch's Kol Nidrei became so popular across Europe that many mistakenly assumed the Protestant composer was Jewish, and his works were banned during the Nazi period because of it.
Compositional Technique
Bloch's Schelomo uses unfamiliar tonal colors, accentuated by harps, celesta, and strings playing col legno, to create an exotic, oriental character, and features the call of the shofar.
Composer Biography
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, a composer on this album, was a former Viennese child prodigy and successful opera composer who fled Austria after the 1938 Anschluss and became a prominent Hollywood film composer.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Ernest Bloch, a composer featured on this album, stated in 1917 that he aspired to write Jewish music, believing it was the only way to produce vital and significant music.
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