Today’s episode features music that was composed exactly one hundred years ago. All the music this time is by the then 23-year-old Kurt Weill.
Weill was studying in Berlin at the time with composer Ferruccio Busoni, who had a major influence on the development of his musical style.
Kurt Weill
String Quartet, Op. 8
Brodsky Quartet
Orchestral Suite ‘Quodlibet’, Op. 9
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen conducted by Antony Beaumont
Frauentanz, Op. 10
Anna-Maria Palii, soprano; Benedict Hames, viola; Natalie Schwaabe, flute; Bettina Faiss, clarinet; Ursula Kepser, horn; Jesús Villa Ordóñez, bassoon
from Das Stundenbuch, Op. 13 ‘Vielleicht dass ich durch schwere Berge gehe’
Steven Kimbrough, baritone; Dalton Baldwin, piano
