- Audio CD (1 Oct 1999)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Chandos
- ASIN: B000007MY3
- Other Editions: MP3 Download
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 279,696 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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The last two decades have seen a healthy resurgence of interest in the music of Vienna-born Alexander Zemlinsky (1981-1942). Like Mahler, Zemlinsky was a brilliant conductor, but in 1939 the Nazi regime finally forced him to flee Europe for the US, where he died, an impoverished and forgotten figure. When it was first heard in 1905, Zemlinsky's gorgeous three-movement orchestral fantasy The Mermaid shared the bill with his good friend Schoenberg's no less opulent tone-poem Pelleas und Melisande. The critics greatly preferred the latter piece, and, for nearly 80 years, The Mermaid disappeared without trace until revived by Riccardo Chailly, who went on to make a memorable Decca recording. It is some measure of Thomas Dausgaard's achievement that his Chandos version all but matches Chailly's in orchestral and sonic splendour, and this talented young Danish conductor reveals similar perceptive gifts in his performance of the Sinfonietta (1934). This was Zemlinsky's final orchestral work and its centrepiece is the broodingly atmospheric "Ballad", which looks wistfully back to the decadent world of the last of his superb Six Maeterlinck Songs (1910-1913). The sweetly lyrical curtain-raiser to Sarema (Zemlinsky's first opera, from 1897) forms a toothsome postscript to a valuable issue. --Andrew Achenbach
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