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By CHENDY BLOG Thursday, February 13, 2014 Mahler Schreker

Soundworld

This morning at City Lit, one of the students in my Franz Schreker class asked about my use of the word 'soundworld'. Truth be told ...

Opportunities to hear Schreker 's music are rare in Britain. Even scarcer, non-existent even, are performances of his operas. In the 192...

1. Mahler's Sixth Symphony by the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and Riccardo Chailly (Accentus Music) This film of Chailly's 2012 perf...

By CHENDY BLOG Thursday, December 5, 2013 Schreker

Last night the BBC Symphony Orchestra did something rather rare. It programmed music by Franz Schreker, his Vorspiel zu einem Drama , the mo...

Nigel Simeone's edition of The Leonard Bernstein Letters is a veritable treasure trove. Bernstein may not be the greatest composer of t...

A sale at Sotheby's went ahead on Wednesday in which a number of items from the Estate of Franz Schreker were sold for relatively unass...

On 27 November, an extraordinary hoard of fin de siècle music goes on sale at Sotheby's in London. The Music, Continental Books & M...

Today, my former flatmate, one of my closest friends and strongest allies celebrates a landmark birthday. It's important to pay tribute,...