Schreker: Orchestral Music from the Operas Royal Swedish Orchestra & Lawrence Renes

• 1 Der Schatzgräber: Symphonic Interlude (arr. W. Steinmetz for orchestra) 13:25
• 2 Die Gezeichneten: Vorspiel zu einem Drama (Prelude to a Drama), Prelude to Die Gezeichneten 09:24
• 3 Das Spielwerk: Prelude 06:46
• 4 Vorspiel zu einer grossen Oper Memnon 22:02
• 5 Der ferne Klang: Nachtstück 15:19
• Total Runtime 01:06:56

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After the première of the opera Der ferne Klang in Frankfurt in 1912, Franz Schreker was regarded as one of the most eminent composers of his time. His operas with their symbolist, erotic subjects and their sumptuous sonorities were widely and triumphantly successful. For a while Schreker was seen as one of the most prominent representatives of New Music (to use Paul Bekker’s term); even Arnold Schoenberg called him ‘one of the foremost among us’. The extent of his popularity was, however, matched by the totality of the oblivion that descended like cobweb over Schreker’s music from the 1930s onwards. As with so many other unconventional composers of this period, the Nazi persecution of him personally (Schreker’s father was of Jewish descent) and of his so-called ‘degenerate’ music is primarily responsible for this. During the Nazi period Schreker’s music was removed from concert programmes. In 1932 he himself had to step aside from the position as director of the Berliner Musikhochschule that he had held since 1920, and in 1933 he had to give up his masterclass at the Prussian Academy of Arts. The following year he died, two days short of his 56th birthday.

Royal Swedish Orchestra
Lawrence Renes, conductor

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