Berlin was reverberating in 1928 with the drama that was to come still, from the war to the wall. drjacquescoulardeau.blogspot.fr/ KURT WEILL – VOM TOD IM WALD – VIOLIN KONZERT – BERLINER REQUIEM – HARMONIA MUNDI – PHILIPPE HERREWEGHE Kurt Weill in the first piece, “Vom Tod im Wald” composed in 1927 is in line with what we know about him, though his style has been associated with Bertold Brecht too much. In this piece we have a style that is more symphonic, more in phase with what European and German musicians were doing at the time. We can hear now and then his way to break the melody represented by the voice with some isolated notes that create a perspective, a death that is very dramatic but modern in his time. This deepening force comes from the wind instruments whereas the strings create some soft background. These two levels of this music try to create a vision of Death that is also double. The big disturber who is going to take you away more or less violently and at the same time the great charmer who is going to mesmerize you into coming with her or him beyond this life, like a liberation. […]
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