Category: Church and Culture Radio Interviews 2018
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Music critic Jens F. Laurson plays and discusses excerpts from the music of Walter Braunfels
Walter Braunfels (b Frankfurt, 19 Dec 1882; d Cologne, 19 March 1954) was an important composer in Germany in the 1920’s and 30’s until his music was banned as “degenerate” and he was branded a half–Jew. Most famous as a composer of opera and oratorio, he also wrote several significant orchestral and chamber pieces. Largely…
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Music critic Jens F. Laurson plays and discusses the music of Othmar Schoeck
Othmar Schoeck was an important Swiss composer during the first half of the twentieth century. In contrast to the more dissonant style pursued by contemporaries, Schoeck is known for his essentially tonal music and his attention to melodic values, rather than dissonant effects. As to his many works, Schoeck made major contributions to lieder with…
Deal W. Hudson 