“Had Brahms never written anything but this one work, it would alone have sufficed to rank him with the best masters,” wrote one of Brahms’s biographers on the Schicksalslied, an orchestrally accompanied choral setting of a poem written by Friedrich Hölderlin. The Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir under the baton of Maestro Antoni Wit take on the work of the great German composer along with his Alto Rhapsody and Scriabin’s Symphony No. 1 with the last of the six movements featuring vocal parts for a choir and two solo voices doomed by Scriabin’s publisher as “unperformable”.
Johannes Brahms Schicksalslied Op. 54, words by F. Hölderlin
Johannes Brahms Rapsodia for alto, choir and orchestra Op. 53
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Alexander Scriabin Symphony No. 1 in E minor Op. 26
Ewa Marciniec –alto
Rafał Bartmiński – tenor
Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir
Piotr Piwko – choirmaster
Antoni Wit – conductor
