User: Foma-Fomitch

Eva Suskova - soprano

Alessandra Marc, soprano
Staatskapelle Dresden
cond. Giuseppe Sinopoli

John Alley, Harmonium
Tim Carey, Celeste

Well, `Accompaniment to a Film Scene`, really. From 1930. Premièred by Otto Klemperer in Berlin, during the Kroll Oper years.

Schoenberg wrote it in 1929 already, for a kind of expressionist movie. When in the 30`s, during the diaspora caused by the German fascists, living in LA near the heart of Hollywood, the composer was given the chance of coöperating with a cinematographic music contribution, he took exactly this same music out of the drawer. He asked a substantial prize. Then

Richard Salter Mann
Christine Whittlesey Frau
Claudia Barainsky Freundin
Ryszard Karczykowski Sänger
Annabelle Hahn Kind
Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt
Michael Gielen, dirigent

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951): Prelude, per coro e orchestra op.44 (1945) - Orchestra e coro della RAI di Roma, dir. Bruno Maderna (prima esecuzione italiana, Venezia 19 aprile 1962)

Karol Szymanowski ze zbioru Pieśni kurpiowskie op. 58 - Uwoz, mamo nr 3, słowa ludowe
Anna Niemiec-Mościcka (sopran)
Marek Kamola (fortepian)
Akademia Muzyczna w Bydgoszczy

Karol Szymanowski ze zbioru Pieśni kurpiowskie op. 58 - Leciały zórazie nr 1, słowa ludowe
Anna Niemiec-Mościcka (sopran)
Marek Kamola (fortepian)
Akademia Muzyczna w Bydgoszczy

Recorded at the Concert Hall of the Polish State
Philharmonic December 1988 to June 1989
Barbara Zagorzanka Soprano
Polish State Philharmonic Chorus