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Klenau: Symphony No. 1 & 5 / Paolo Und Francesca

Paul von Klenau (Composer), Jan Wagner (Conductor), Odense Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra) Format: Audio CD
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1 Sym No.1 in f: Einleitung: Sehr Ruhig
2 Sym No.1 in f: Feierlich. Getragen
3 Sym No.1 in f: Adagio Espressivo
4 Sym No.1 in f: Allegro Moderato
5 Sym No.1 in f: Allegro Non Troppo (Alla Breve)
6 Sym No.5 'Triptikon': Martellato. Allegro
7 Sym No.5 'Triptikon': Andante Con Moto
8 Sym No.5 'Triptikon': Allegro Molto Vivace, Alla Breve
9 Paolo Und Francesca: Symphonic Fant After Dante's Inferno Canto V.

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  • Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.55 x 4.97 x 0.54 inches; 2.83 ounces
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Dacapo
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ October 19, 2006
  • Label ‏ : ‎ Dacapo
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00004TVF0
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
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Joel Kovacik
5.0 out of 5 stars The More You Listen, the More It Keeps Growing on You!
Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2015
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Strangely enough, each time I finish listening to the two symphonies by Paul von Klenau featured on this CD (and I've already heard them at least 10 times), I discover to my embarrassed dismay I can't seem to recall a single note or phrase contained in the music; yet, while I'm experiencing these little-known, late Romantic gems, I find myself irresistibly overwhelmed by their addictive sweeping drama and unable to put them aside and move contentedly on to other works waiting to be heard. This is likely to go on for another few weeks (or longer), but who cares -- the intense emotional satisfaction I continue deriving from the music makes me a willing captive prisoner for as long as it takes to finally disabuse myself of this craving fixation.

I wish I could be more helpful in persuading you to purchase this CD (assuming, of course, your interests in music are akin to my own). Hopefully, it'll suffice to simply mention that if you find yourself drawn to Felix Draeseke (his Third Symphony), the symphonies of Anton Bruckner and, especially, Richard Wetz (his Symphony No. 3 in B Major), you're more than likely to enjoy Klenau's symphonic offerings.
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Thomas F. Bertonneau
4.0 out of 5 stars Klenau's Late-Romantic Art
Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2001
Certain composers resist ready classification. Charles Martin Loeffler, for example, was born in Russia to French-speaking Belgian parents, but he emigrated to the United States in his youth and he usually ends up on lists of American composers. Paul von Klenau (1883-1946) is another such case: Danish-born but of Junker ancestry (hence the "von Klenau"), he lived from 1904-1940 in Germany and Austria, where he composed and conducted and maintained a fairly high profile among contemporary German-speaking composers. It gets even a bit more complicated, for Klenau's high-time coincided with the National Socialist regime. Klenau, who had studied with Schoenberg, divorced his Jewish wife and entered the musical Kulturkampf by attempting to pedigree an authentically German (i.e., "non-Jewish") type of twelve-tone music deriving supposedly from Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde." Klenau's opera "Michael Kohlhaas" (1933) employed this "echter serialismus" and managed to gain repeated performances even into the war. Goebbels indeed commissioned two further operas from Klenau, who composed them according to his method, without compromise. (These were "Rembrandt van Rijn" [1937] and "Elisabeth von England" [1939].) When Hitler invaded Denmark, however, Klenau returned home, and took up music-making in his native country; he faded into obscurity after his death. A program of Klenau's orchestral music possess historical curiosity at the very least. Jan Wagner and the Odense Symphony Orchestra serve up Symphony No. 1 (1908), Symphony No. 5 "Triptikon" (1939), and the Symphonic Fantasy "Paolo und Francesca" (undated but probably from the 1920s). The large-scale Symphony No. 1 shows the influence of Wagner and Bruckner. Its five movements together require some thirty-seven minutes. The first of them, a brief "Introduction," quickly reaches its Brucknerian, fanfare-dominated climax; next comes a slow movement with the German designation (used frequently by Bruckner himself) of "Feierlich," or "Solemn." The slower Adagio, which follows, uses the plan of Bruckner's slow movements in the Seventh and Eighth Symphonies. The Allegro Moderato constitutes a bucolic scherzo and the concluding Allegro non Troppo acknowledges the chorale-based Finale formula familiar from Bruckner's E-Flat Major and E-Minor symphonies. The modernist Klenau shows up in the twelve-minute Symphony No. 5, where the composer employs his terse, chromatic, quasi-serial vocabulary, without however suppressing an essentially Romantic outlook rooted in German nineteenth century music. Of the three works on the disc, the Symphonic Fantasy after Dante makes the least impression. The two symphonies exert some interest, especially the discursive, youthful First, with its obvious references. Many collectors, having become overly familiar with the standard repertory, like to explore the byways of late Romanticism. Klenau amounts to a considerable entry under the rubric. One might raise a few questions about his judgments; nut the man is dead and the art remains. Sample the music only if you cannot put aside the fact that he was a philo-Germanic Dane sympathetic, apparently, to National Socialist ideas about art, who also happened to be a Schoenberg-affiliated practitioner of twelve-note music. I suppose that if we can enjoy Orff, who ingratiated himself with the regime at least as much, then we can enjoy Klenau. (For remarks on Klenau, consult Erik Levi's "Music in the Third Reich" rather than the bland-by-omission notes that come with the CD.)
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Donald B.
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2015
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very likeable music
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Jacobite
5.0 out of 5 stars A feast of late romantic music
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 7, 2023
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Danish-born Klenau is hardly a familiar name among composers but the dacapo label has been promoting his work in recent years. This CD contains two marvellous, superbly orchestrated symphonies. The sweeping number one in particular, from 1908, is scored for huge forces. It employs 8 horns, 4 tubas, 2 harps and an organ besides extensive percussion. Influences of Bruckner, Mahler and Richard Strauss can be discerned but Klenau has his own voice; the rollicking scherzo a case in point. A glorious example of 20th century late romantic music at its finest.

The disc also has a passionate symphonic fantasy, Paolo und Francesco, after Dante's Inferno; the same text that inspired Tchaikovsky's Francesco da Rimini.

The Danish orchestra is brilliant and the recording captures all the detail of the score, admirably held together by conductor Jan Wagner.

I paid way over the odds to obtain this CD but it was worth every penny.
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Arne Sande
4.0 out of 5 stars Surprisingly good
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 29, 2022
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Little known but appealing late romantic works. Good audio.
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