Hanns Eisler Edition

Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin;
MDR Sinfonieorchester;
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig;
Staatskapelle Berlin;
Rundfunkchor Leipzig;
Berliner Symphoniker;
Burmeister, Annelies;
Olbertz, Walter

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Soloists:Elisabeth Breul (soprano), Ekkehard Schall (vocals), Gunter Neumann (tenor), Gunther Leib (bass), Gisela Burkhardt (soprano), Uta Priew (alto), Rosemarie Lang (mezzo-soprano), Andreas Sommerfeld (baritone), Tomas Mowes (baritone), Martin Seifert (narrator), Stefan Lisewski (narrator), Roswitha Trexler

A private pupil of Schoenberg, who described him as one of his most gifted students, Hanns Eisler stands as one of the most fascinating composers of the 20th century – a composer whose left-wing political affiliations saw him forced into exile with the rise of the Nazis, who subsequently settled in the USA and was denounced first by his sister to the FBI and then by Nixon himself as ‘the Karl Marx of communism in the musical field’ (to which Eisler retorted that he was ‘very flattered’ by the comparison), leading to deportation back to Europe in 1948. He was one of Bertolt Brecht’s chief collaborators in political songs, films and stage works (the two resumed contact in Hollywood after Eisler’s move to the US), also working with other notable types such as the singer Ernst Busch and writing politico-intellectual subject matter. After his return to Germany, where he settled in Stalinist East Berlin, he became enormously influential in re-stimulating musical life, teaching at the Berlin College of Music that now bears his name and taking the composition masterclass at the Academy of Arts.

CD x 10

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13-11-2019

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