“I have a very interesting compositional plan, namely I want to write a big symphony, which will be subtitled ‘Concentration Camp Symphony’. It also uses chorus in some passages, although it is quite an orchestral work.” Hanns Eisler wrote this in 1935 from exile to Bert Brecht, who wrote most of the texts set to music. Eisler worked on the German Symphony for many years – actually until the premiere in April 1959. It was probably a struggle for the form with which the composer wanted to differentiate himself from the classical symphony and turn towards a proletarian oratorio, but without using avant-garde elements – After all, Eisler was a student of Arnold Schönberg – to be renounced. This became an increasingly difficult undertaking, especially in the Stalinist GDR. The recording presented here with the Leipzig Radio Choir and Symphony Orchestra under Adolf Fritz Guhl was made in 1963, one year after Eisler’s death, in the Leipzig Congress Hall. Rosemary Phillips, mezzo-soprano Hermann Hähnel, baritone Fred Teschler, bass Achim Schmidtchen, Hans-Joachim Hegewald, speaker Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra Adolf Fritz Guhl, conductor
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