Der ferne Klang by Franz Schreker (1878-1934) premiered on August 18, 1912 at the Frankfurt Opera House. Schreker had already begun composing his first full-length opera in 1901, after the text he...
I thought of myself, of the drama of growing up, of the folly of this life with it's uncertain issue, of all the tragedies that harshly befall US and now and again-often only fleetingly-involve US in...
Fifteen years after the first three discographic documentations of these unique composition classes (EDA 17, 19, 24), Kolja Lessing introduces in the present recordings the results of further years...
End of the opera. 12 November 1918 (on the day of the declaration of the German-Austrian Republic and the union with the German Reich!). This sentence was written by Schreker at the close of the...
Grosz / Fiebig / Lessing Franz Schreker'S Masterclasses In Vienna 3 CD1. Symphonic Variations on An Original Theme, for Piano, Op. 9: Thema - Variation 6 2. Symphonic Variations on An Original Theme,...