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Release of a new CD- Ebony Band: Weill, Toch, Schulhoff

06 06, 2009

We have received news from our friend Claude Torres in regard to the release of a new CD in July- Ebony Band: Weill, Toch, Schulhoff.

http://www.canadacd.ca/en/browse/?productNumber=CCS25109&browse=1&page=1

Channel Classics CCS25109
Ebony Band, conducted by Werner Herbers
Cappella Amsterdam; Elena Vink, soprano; Chaim Levano, speaker (Toch)
Daniel Reuss, speaker; Bernard Loonen, tenor; Åsa Olsson, soprano (Schulhoff)

1. Kurt Weill (1900-1950) : Kleine Dreigroschenmusik (Suite aus der Dreigroschenoper) (1929)
2. Ernst Toch (1887-1964) : Egon und Emilie Op. 46 (kein Familiendrama) (1928)
Text: Christian Morgenstern (1871-1914)

Was partly recorded on CD Musik Festival Davos / Young Artists in Concert
Ursula Fiedler, Stefano Wenk, Jurg henneberger, Christian Jauslin
Sony Masterworks S2K 68353 (2 CD set, 1995)

and on CD Rodrigo Blumenstock - Portrait
Ursula Fiedler, Sopran
Deutschen Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
Rodrigo Blumenstock, Dirigent

3. Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942) : H.M.S.Royal Oak (1930)
Jazzoratorium nach Worten von Otto Rombach (1904-1984)

Only 3 numbers (out of 15) released in 1970 on SUPRAPHON LP 0 10 0693
Prague Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Frantisek Vajnar