Honeck & Frang

Thundering energy, sharp contrasts: Julia Perry’s ›A Short Piece for Orchestra‹ from 1952 is one of the few works whose publication she lived to see. The composer leads the opening theme through the piece’s five sections, making its intense colours shine again and again. Gustav Mahler’s First Symphony is another emotional roller coaster: unhappy in love, but full of vitality and hope. Robert Schumann’s Violin Concerto lived in the shadows for much too long: Eighty years after it was written, the conductor Karl Böhm premiered a work in which the soloist not only shines as a virt, but above a