(Twelfth Season)
To be given before an audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House
Ernst Krenek (pianoforte)
The BBC Orchestra
(Section D)
Led by Marie Wilson
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
(Solo pianoforte, ERNST KRENEK)
(First performance)
Though born at Vienna in 1900 of Czech family, Ernst Krenek is considered one of the leading composers of the younger German School. He studied composition under Franz Schreker in Vienna and in Berlin, where he now lives.
* He appears to be swayed ', says
Edwin Evans , ' by strictly musical, not to say even technical, impulses, and rarely, if ever, allows his course to be deflected by emotional or temperamental considerations. He takes the " linear" view of polyphony which prevails in so much recent German music, and is in fact one of its most uncompromising adherents.' (First performance in England)
Berg's 'Three Orchestral Pieces', Op. 6, were completed in August, 1914. Willi Reich sees in them an affinity with Mahler, and considers them to be an outstanding example of the style and tendencies of the Schonberg school of that period.
The work, which is dedicated to
' my teacher and friend, Arnold Schönberg', is divided into three parts: ' Prasludium ' Reigen ' (' ronde ' or ' branle ') and March, and is scored for a large orchestra with quadruple wood-wind, six horns, bells xylophone, harp, celesta, and full percussion, including a large hammer.