Weigl/ Klussmann/ Soloists of the German Sym - Selected SongsBy the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Lied genre had arguably reached a peak with such late Romantic masters as Mahler, Strauss and Wolf in their song writing prime. Composers of a younger generation such as Zemlinsky, Schoenberg, Schreker and Joseph Marx cultivated the medium no less enthusiastically. This was the musical environment into which Karl Ignaz Weigl was born in Vienna in February 1881. Already at the age of 15 he had composition

Previous recordings have used large choirs

Charlie Shavers

but also and above all cylindrical transverse flutes

which is undoubtedly a highlight of the recording

Spirit Adrift - 20 Centuries Gone

"Sunny Road"

devoted songwriting

racking up an astonishing succession of hits through into the rock 'n' roll era and defying the cataclysmic changes in the pop landscape that the new music wrought

The associations' aims included re-establishing a national musical life at the highest level back in Poland (after more than a century of joint occupation by Russia

Most of his extant music was preserved in the Vercelli Chapter Archive

L'italiana in Algeri

Slovenia and Serbia