Conductor and composer Jorg Widmann leads the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra on this album of masterpieces for string orchestra. Felix Mendelssohn is represented with the String Symphony No. 10 in B minor, which he wrote at the age of 14. It consists of a single movement in which a lively slow introduction is followed by an allegro and a coda. Widmann's own "Ikarische Klage" takes its theme from a poem by Baudelaire: "Burned by the love of beauty / I will not have the sublime honor / to give my name to the abyss / which will serve as my grave". Widmann says of Korngold's Symphonic Serenade: "What a piece, full of glittering magic". In this work we hear dreams of a real or imaginary Vienna at the time of Mahler or Berg: a vision that looks to the future, is heart-rending but never sentimental.
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