Product Review

Walter Braunfels, who died in 1954, was one of the great twentieth-century German composers who were temporarily eclipsed by the Nazi era and the 1950s avant-garde. This second volume in Dutton's survey of Braunfels's memorable orchestral music, featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Johannes Wildner, spans from his luxuriant early Symphonic Variations on a French Children's Song to the utterly delightful orchestral suite The Glass Mountain (Der Glaserne Berg) to the powerfully satisfying Sinfonia Brevis. All are world premere recordings.