A wonderful, sadly neglected composer who had his 50th death anniversary a few days ago.
Lost Music: Eric(h) Zeisl (1905-1959) (http://www.weta.org/fmblog/?p=499)
[my Zeisl-tribute on WETA 90.9]
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Shouldn't this be in the "Arrrr.....the hotpants" thread? ;D
I've his Piano trio suite op.8, the "Arrowhead"trio for viola, flute and harp, and his beautiful second string quartet, on HM CD. Recommended. Great neo-romantic chamber music.
latest on ionarts:
Ionarts-at-Large: Involuntary Exclusivity
At Mozart's Home
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Violist Julia Rebekka Adler and pianist Axel Gremmelspacher presented a program—
and their latest CD—in the sub-basement of the Mozart House in Vienna, just in
the shadow of St. Stephen's Cathedral. The program and disc are titled "Viola in
Exile", concocted of composers, threatened, prosecuted, and eventually forgotten,
that they all huddled at the very back of the alphabet: Leo Weiner, Karl Weigl,
Mieczysław Weinberg, and Erich Zeisl.
I've followed the projects of Mme. Adler (assistant principal viola of the Munich
Philharmonic, in her day job) with keen interest ever since writing a feature interview
about her and her Weinberg solo viola project for the pages of Fanfare, some years
ago. As part of that project, she had found and arranged Weinberg's Sonata for
Clarinet and Piano for the viola, one of the catchiest piece of this often thorny
composer and the opening work of this evening's proceedings.
Viola in Exile:
It was an unusual concert in that it took place before an audience of seven or—deducting the record producer, his wife, the music critic, friends of the performers and the page turner...
http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2015/09/ionarts-at-large-involuntary.html (http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2015/09/ionarts-at-large-involuntary.html)