Clemens Schuldt, conductor
Anna Stéphany, mezzo-soprano

Wennäkoski: Verdigris
Zemlinsky: 7 Lieder von Nacht und Traum, arr. Dünser
Brahms: Symphony no. 2

Alexander von Zemlinsky’s late Romantic songs represent the dying breaths of the German Lied. Zemlinsky orchestrated some of his solo songs himself, but here we are given a selection adapted by Zemlinsky specialist Richard Dünser under the title ‘Night and Dream’. Lotta Wennäkoski wrote Verdigris in 2015 as a homage to Sibelius. The title refers to the patina that accumulates on the layers of the history of music, but also to the green colour that the composer hoped would lend freshness to her recollections of Sibelius’s En saga. Brahms was something of a pessimist, but his Symphony no. 2 is his happiest work in this genre. He asked his publisher to print it with ‘a black mourning border’.

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