Lachner/ Evergreen Symphony Orchestra - Symphony 3 / FestouvertureFranz Lachner was a very productive composer. His work catalogue registers almost two hundred opus numbers representing practically all the important musical genres. Stylistically, Lachner was influenced by Beethoven and Spohr, by Meyerbeer, and above all by Franz Schubert. His music is distinguished by a sovereign command of form and above all by counterpoint. This month cpo is releasing the world premiere recordings of two of his symphonic works.

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conducted by Semyon Bychkov

completing the collection is Iqbal Khan's astonishing and ground-breaking production of Othello

and composer in New York and Boston

Franz Xaver Murschhauser was born in the summer of 1663

and he really struck a chord with numberless kids in reactionary postwar Germany

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Porpora wrote a great deal of music for religious purposes and opened a singing school which Farinelli also attended

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despite his close personal relationship to Schönberg" - This brief characterization of Zemlinsky's compositional style shows that the composer 'feil between two stools' even while he was alive