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KJELL FLEM

Piano Concerto (1992) · Cello Concerto (2005)
Oliver Triendl, piano · Benedict Kloeckner, cello · Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin · Markus L. Frank

C5565 [06/2026] PC: 21 UPC: 845221055657

A student of Einar Englund and Einojuhani Rautavaara, Kjell Flem has been active in the Norwegian music community as a composer, organist, pianist, music teacher and critic for many years. His relatively small number of compositions is founded on traditional forms, creating an atmospheric ambience deeply rooted in the natural landscape of his homeland. Flem's creative process extends over a long period of time as, in his own words, truly magical moments of inspiration are rare.

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Kurt Weill: Street Scene

A Broadway Opera in two acts (1947)
Giselle Allen · Robert Hayward · Chorus and Orchestra of Opera North · James Holmes

2CD-Set · C5560 [10/2026] PC: 22 UPC: 845221055602

Today Street Scene is Kurt Weill’s most frequently revived American stage work.
A polystylistic blending of operatic arias and ensembles, musical comedy songs and dances, dramatic dialogue both unaccompanied and underscored, and extraordinary emotional drama, Street Scene is arguably Weill’s breakthrough. Though Elmer Rice’s play was set in the 1920s, the popular music references are pure 1940s style (Glenn Miller, Rodgers and Hammerstein). After the successful release of "Love Life" (Capriccio C5550) this recording fills up the meanwhile large Kurt-Weill-Catalogue of Capriccio, again with a powerful cast from Opera North.

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HANS WINTERBERG

Piano Concerto No. 2 (1949-51) · Symphony No. 2 (1943-46)
Jonathan Powell, piano · Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz · Roland Kluttig

C5557 [10/2026] PC: 21 UPC: 845221055572

Hans Winterberg (1901-1991) grew up in Prague where he was one of a whole cadre of composers in the new Czech musical tradition. He claimed to have been inspired by Schoenberg, but in reality, he cultivated a Central European Impressionism which he skillfully blended with complex rhythms. The two works presented on this CD mark high points in Winterberg's oeuvre. The circumstances in which they were composed could not have been more different. While the Second Symphony was written during the darkest moments of his existence, he composed the Second Piano Concerto less than ten years later, in what was probably the brightest moment of his life, the early 1950s, when his breakthrough as a composer, which he had been unable to achieve in Czechoslovakia, now seemed certain in the young Federal Republic of Germany.

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ERNST VON DOHNÁNYI

Symphony No. 2 in E major, Op. 40 · Ruralia Hungarica, Op. 32b
Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz · Michael Francis

C5502 [09/2026] PC: 21 UPC: 845221055022

Ernst von Dohnanyi was one of the most versatile and influential musicians of his time but his works are now seldom played. A gap which Capriccio want to fill now with this already eight recording of his late romantical, sensual music, deeply rooted in the Austro-German classical tradition.  His Symphony No. 2 is a colossal work, lasting around an hour and calling for an extraordinarily large orchestra. The composition coincided with his departure from war-torn Hungary during World War II. Ruralia Hungarica, written in 1923 and arranged for orchestra in the following year, makes use of familiar Hungarian folk-melodies, some of them known abroad through their appearance in the work of other Hungarian composers.

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MILOSLAV KABELÁČ

Children's Choruses
Kinderchor der Deutschen Oper Berlin · Kammersymphonie Berlin · Christian Lindhorst · Jürgen Bruns

2CD-Set · C5566 [09/2026] PC: 22 UPC: 845221055664

Music for children plays an important role in Miloslav Kabeláč's artistic oeuvre. Especially in the early days after the communist coup in 1948, the composer devoted himself to this genre: “I regard composing for children as a ‘touchstone’ not only for all creative abilities, but also for the human qualities of the composer. That is why I take this work as seriously and as importantly as any other". In his music, Kabeláč creates powerful atmospheric images with a playful sensitivity for language, some of which is highly onomatopoeic. His serious engagement with children's works is once again evident in the fact that Kabeláč repeatedly quoted motifs and melodies from children's works in larger symphonic works.
Sung in Original Czech Language · Booklet contains articles, complete Lyrics and translations

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