Schrecker: Irrelohe / Gulke

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Label: SONY CLASSICAL
Catalog: 88985470362
Format: CD

Irrelohe, a Gothic horror story of rape, pillage and arson by the Austrian composer Franz Schreker, was premiered in 1924. The thoroughly committed (Gramophone) 1989 live Austrian Radio recording stars Luana De Vol, Monte Pederson, Heinz Zednik and Eva Randová. Wrote the BBC Music Magazine, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under Peter Gülke gives a suitably fiery reading of the score. Another essential buy for the collector of musical decadence and degeneracy . "

Price: $27.98