Stuttgarter Kammerorchester Performs Mendelssohn, Widmann & Korngold – String Symphony No. 10, Ikarische Klage & Symphonic Serenade on CD

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Title: Mendelssohn: String Symphony No. 10; Widmann: Ikarische Klage; Korngold: Symphonic Serenade
Artist: Stuttgarter Kammerorchester
Label: Channel Classics
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 723385492252
Genre: Classical Artists
Release Date: 2025-11-14
Number of Discs: 1
Conductor and composer Jorg Widmann leads the Stuttgarter Kammerochester in this album of masterpieces for string orchestra. The precocious Mendelssohn is represented with his String Symphony No.10 in B minor. It consists of a single movement, in which a sweeping slow introduction is followed by an allegro and coda. Widmann’s own Ikarische Klage takes it’s subject matter from a poem by Baudelaire: “Burnt by the love of beauty / I will not have the sublime honour / of giving my name to the abyss / that will serve as my grave”. On Korngold’s Symphonic Serenade, Widmann says “What a piece, full of glittering magic!”. In this work we hear dreams of a real or imaginary Vienna in the time of Mahler or Berg: a vision that looks to the future, is heart-rending but never sentimental.
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