{"product_id":"2306365","title":"The Orchestra Now; Botstein - The Lost Generation: Apostel \/ Kauder \/ Busch [CD]","description":"Brand New From Reputable UK Company With 30 Years Experience In Retail, Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.\u003cbr\u003eAll items shipped within 3 working days of payment.\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that all our DVDs are Region 2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that not all audio CDs are shrink-wrapped fom the factory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you've seen the Leonard Bernstein biopic 'Maestro', you've seen and heard The Orchestra Now, the exceptional ensemble that appears in the movie's Tanglewood Music Festival scene. The Orchestra Now (TON), a New York-based graduate-level training orchestra comprised of the most vibrant young musicians from around the globe, was founded by conductor, educator and music historian Leon Botstein, whose insatiable curiosity has resulted in rescuing countless musical works from oblivion. Their first recording for AVIE, 'The Lost Generation', brings together three German-speaking composers who were contemporaries of Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg, but whose music became supressed by historical events of the 20th century.\\r\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn November 2022, Botstein and TON gave the US premiere of Hugo Kauder's Symphony No. 1, a 'splendid' work that 'made a splash' (New York Classical Review). The largely self-taught Moravian-born composer had a distinguished career in Vienna until he was forced to flee the Nazis and arrived in New York in 1938. The first of Kauder's five symphonies was dedicated to Alma Mahler. Whilst his musical language is rooted in the tradition of Johannes Brahms and Gustav Mahler, he forged an individual voice with his ease and flexibility of harmonic and metrical shifts.\\r\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGerman-born, Austrian composer Hans Erich Apostel studied with Schoenberg and Berg. His works incorporated his mentors' expressionism and 12-tone methods in equal measure. The Nazis deemed Apostel's music 'degenerate', but he lived out his life in Vienna until his death in 1972. His Variations on a theme by Haydn, performed frequently in the mid-20th century, is an homage to the second movement of Haydn's Symphony No. 103, the 'Drum Roll, which itself comprises variations on a theme.\\r\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdolf Busch, one of the most celebrated violinists and chamber musicians of the 20th century, was also a prolific composer. A staunch opponent of Nazism, he left his native Germany, arriving first in Switzerland and eventually the United States in 1939. A late Romantic compositional style imbues his Variations on an Original Theme, originally for piano four hands and presented to his wife as a Christmas present in 1944. Busch's longtime chamber music partner and son-in-law, the pianist Rudolf Serkin, frequently performed the work with his son Peter, who made this orchestration of his grandfather's composition, in a familial labor of love.\u003c\/p\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A major rediscovery' \\x96 BBC Music Magazine ****\u003c\/p\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'There is so much beautiful music that is just waiting to be performed, recorded and listened to, and the works on this disc are good examples.' \\x96 Classical Music Daily\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHugo Kauder: Symphony No. 1: I. Bewegt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eII. Sehr mabig bewegt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIII. Sehr breit und betragen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIV. Ruhig, streng gemessen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHans Erich Apostel: Variations on a Theme by Haydn: Theme: Andante piu tosto Allegretto\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVariation I: Allegretto\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVariation II: Andante cantabile\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVariation III: Tagstuck, Pastorale\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVariation IV: Vivace\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVariation V: Adagio\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVariation VI: Vivace\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVariation VII: Nachtstuck, in Kubins Manier\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVariation VIII: Andante cantabile\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVariation IX: Allegretto\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdolf Busch: Variations on an Original Theme\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chalkys.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54420731494785,"sku":"2306365","price":16.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0056\/8043\/1219\/files\/0822252268423.jpg?v=1750621098","url":"https:\/\/chalkys.com\/products\/2306365","provider":"Chalkys.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}