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Orchestral Music
BURGER, Julius

Catalogue Number: TOCC0001
EAN: 5060113440013
Release Date: 26 June 2007
Duration: 78:22

Legende, for baritone and orchestra
Stille der Nacht
Variations on a Theme of C. P. E. Bach
Cello Concerto
Scherzo for Strings

Michael Kraus, baritone
Maya Beiser, cello
Radio Symphonie Orchester, Berlin
Simone Young, conductor

Julius Burger, born in Vienna in 1897, studied with Franz Schreker in Berlin in the 1920s, establishing a successful career as conductor and accompanist before the advent of Hitler sent him into US exile in 1938; he died in New York in 1995. His music – in which one can hear something of Schreker and Korngold, his exact contemporary, as well as echoes of Mahler and Zemlinsky – shows a mastery of the late-Romantic orchestra. The two songs on this CD display an exquisite sense of melody, and his Cello Concerto – the slow movement of which was dedicated to his mother, who was murdered on her way to Auschwitz – shares with Bloch’s Schelomo a concern with Jewish melisma.

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Track Listing, MP3 Downloads & Streaming Samples

Track No. Track Title/Details Duration Sample Download Track
1 Stille der Nacht, for baritone and orchestra (1919)
Julius Burger, composer
Michael Kraus, baritone
Radio Symphonie Orchester, Berlin
Simone Young, conductor

(first recording)
10:55
2 Scherzo for Strings (1939)
Julius Burger, composer
Radio Symphonie Orchester, Berlin
Simone Young, conductor

(first recording)
5:03
  Cello Concerto (1938)
Julius Burger, composer
Maya Beiser, cello
Radio Symphonie Orchester, Berlin
Simone Young, conductor

(first recording)
31:15
3 I. Allegro 9:48
4 II. Adagio 10:07
5 III. Allegro vivace 11:20
  Variations on a Theme of Karl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1945)
Julius Burger, composer
Radio Symphonie Orchester, Berlin
Simone Young, conductor

(first recording)
18:25
6 Theme, Andante grazioso 1:16
7 Variation I, Energico 1:28
8 Variation II, Allegro moderato 0:51
9 Variation III, Lento 0:48
10 Variation IV, Presto alla breve 1:08
11 Variation V, Giusto tempo 2:02
12 Variation VI, Vivace 0:43
13 Variation VII, Andante sostenuto 2:25
14 Variation VIII, Allegretto, grazioso 0:40
15 Variation IX, Allegro 0:50
16 Variation X, Adagio 2:27
17 Variation XI, Scherzo (Presto) 1:11
18 Coda, Solenne 2:36
19 Legende, for baritone and orchestra (1919)
Julius Burger, composer
Michael Kraus, baritone
Radio Symphonie Orchester, Berlin
Simone Young, conductor

(first recording)
12:44

Artists

Julius Burger

Julius Burger, composer

Michael Kraus

Michael Kraus, baritone

Maya Beiser

Maya Beiser, cello

Radio Symphonie Orchester Berlin

Radio Symphonie Orchester, Berlin, orchestra
[credit: Franz Schlechter]

Simone Young

Simone Young, conductor

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