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Johanna Senfter (1879-1961)
Symphony No. 1 in F major Op. 22 (1914) · Symphony No. 9 in E flat minor, Op. 117 (1949)
Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz · Chelsea Gallo
C5555 PC: 21 UPC: 845221055558
The German composer Johanna Senfter was a student of Max Reger, who recognized her musical talent and encouraged her to pursue advanced studies in his composition class in Leipzig, which she completed with distinction in 1909. In 1910, she was awarded the Arthur Nikisch Prize for the best student composition of the year. Born into a well-to-do industrial family, she was financially independent and able to devote herself entirely to her creative work throughout her life. In addition to numerous chamber music pieces, she left behind nine symphonies. From the youthful "Sturm und Drang" of her first symphony (1914) to the thoughtfully moving ninth (1949), composed after two world wars, the development of her musical language can be discovered here with this world premiere recordings.
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PAUL BÜTTNER
Symphony No. 3 (1915) Symphony No. 4 (1917-19)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin · Christopher Ward
C5554 [04/26 release] PC: 21 UPC: 845221055541
Paul Büttner was born in Dresden in 1870 and studied violin and oboe there at the Conservatory. Over the years Büttner could increasingly establish as a fantastic musician in Dresden. But he stayed virtually completely unknown before 1915, when famous Arthur Nikisch premiered his Symphony No. 3. Since that, Büttner was named one of the greatest and most important contemporary symphonists in succession to Brahms and Bruckner. His Symphony No. 4 from 1917 continued the success and was performed by many different orchestras. In 1933 his music was marked as "unwanted" and the regime deleted him completely from the public music culture.
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Max Meyer-Olbersleben
The Pupils of Franz Liszt - 3
Nina Karmon · Roland Glassl · Benedict Kloeckner · Oliver Triendl
C5424 PC: 21 UPC: 845221054247
Max Meyer-Olbersleben, born in 1850 in Olbersleben, Thuringia, studied at the Weimar Orchestral School under Franz Liszt, and later at the Royal Music School in Munich under Gabriel Josef Rheinberger and Peter Cornelius. He settled in Würzburg as a professor of counterpoint and composition and served as director of the Royal Conservatory of Music until his retirement in 1920. During his lifetime, 114 works were published, primarily smaller forms such as choral works, songs, and piano pieces. Through his studies in Weimar and Munich, Meyer-Olbersleben was familiar with both the traditionalist and the new German musical language of that era, and thus the chamber music gems recorded here for the first time bear witness to profound Romantic sensibility and the spirit of a new musical awakening.
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L. Kashperova
Leokadiya Kashperova (1872-1940) · Piano Concerto Op. 2 Symphony Op. 4
Oliver Triendl Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin · Anna Skryleva
C5549 [03/2026] PC: 21 845221055497
She was Igor Stravinsky's piano teacher and studied herself with Anton Rubinstein. But to this day, her compositions have remained in the shadow of the great male masters. A fate that many women of this era share with her. Although her oeuvre is nowhere near as comprehensive as that of her composing colleagues, these few works still demonstrate incredible talent, mature skill and a deeply romantic Russian sound language that is so typical of this time.
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Hindemith: Cardillac
Tomasz Konieczny · Vera-Lotte Boecker · Wolfgang Bankl · Herbert Lippert
Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper · Cornelius Meister
2CD · C5530 · [02/2026] PC: 22 UPC: 845221055305
Paris is gripped by fear. A series of murders is leaving a bloody trail through the city. We are talking about E.T.A. Hoffmann's story "Das Fräulein von Scuderi," published in 1819 and often cited as one of the earliest German crime stories. And even though the story is set in the Paris of the time of Louis XIV, the work has a deeply romantic quality, driven by a fascination with genius, coupled with dark passions and terrible crimes. In 1925, Hindemith came into contact with the publicist and poet Ferdinand Lion. To Lion's libretto, influenced by New Objectivity, Paul Hindemith set music that, for all its modernity, consciously takes up historical forms and brings them into play in a neo-baroque manner. The highly acclaimed, star-studded series of performances by the Vienna State Opera is hereby released for the first time as a gripping live recording.
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HK GRUBER
Piano Concerto · Short Stories from the Vienna Woods
Frank Dupree · ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra · HK Gruber
C5536 [02/2026] PC: 21 8452210555367
At over 80 years old, the ever agile and energetic HK Gruber has become an integral part of the
music scene – not only in Austria. As a composer, chansonnier and music educator with constructive depth and his distinctive, ironical jokes, he reliably amazes, moves, and evokes laughter in his audiences, far removed from the contrived, mathematical, contemporary musical art. His genre-spanning works are audible, vibrant journeys through the incredible diversity of music history, thus shaping his own, entirely unmistakable style. In Frank Dupree and the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, he finds his ideal partners, who skillfully realize this distinctive musical language.
