Following the first volume in this series, which charted Franz Schreker's developmental path up to the success of his dance-pantomime Der Geburtstag der Infantin (The Birthday of the Infanta; 777... more

After George Antheil had earned his reputation in Europe as the self-proclaimed "Bad Boy of Music" and caused plenty of scandals with his avant-garde experiments, he made a dramatic shift upon... more

Bach's four-part chorale movements were "a musical experience of the first order," said Mauricio Kagel - who would want to contradict him? Of course, something entirely new emerges from Kagel's... more

Throughout his lifetime, Gustav Mahler's musical imagination got sparked by the Wunderhorn anthology of folk poetry compiled by Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano. Whether autonomous lieder or... more

From an artistic point of view, Dvorak reacted with this work to the Stabat Mater by the German church musician and priest Franz Xaver Witt, the founder of the Cecilia Society, which was performed in... more

The singer Christoph Pregardien has documented an important part of his repertoire on more than 130 discs released on various labels. His numerous recordings of German romantic lieder have been... more