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Peace and Joy: Two Illusions?

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Music by Schoenberg, who called his chorus Peace on Earth 'an illusion for mixed choir', and Beethoven, who showed no such doubts about joy.
Schoenberg Friede auf Erden STOCKHOLM RADIO CHOIR/ ERIC ERICSON. Record
Dreimal tausend Jahre; De profundis
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG CHOIR/
ERWIN ORTNER
(Austrian Radio recording)
A Survivor from Warsaw, for male chorus and orchestra with GÜNTER REICH (narrator) Beethoven Symphony No 9 in D minor (Choral) (Finale text from SCHILLER'S Ode to Joy) KARITA MATTILA (soprano) ALFREDA HODGSON (mezzo-soprano)
SIEGFRIED JERUSALEM (tenor) ROBERT LLOYD (baSS)
CLEVELAND RADIO CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA/
CHRISTOPH VON DOHNANYI (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Schoenberg Friede
Unknown:
Eric Ericson.
Unknown:
Arnold Schoenberg
Unknown:
Erwin Ortner
Mezzo-Soprano:
Alfreda Hodgson
Unknown:
Christoph von Dohnanyi
Source: Radio Times

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