Music from the Bauhaus City of Dessau
An exciting combination of two great orchestral works - Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Feininger's Fractals
backMarkus L. Frank Conductor
Tonmeister: Holger Busse
Recording: Katharina-Saal, Stadthalle Zerbst, 2025
GEN 25942 EAN 4260036259421
Release 10.10.2025EUR 18,90
One of Saxony-Anhalt’s oldest and most tradition-rich orchestras presents a compelling combination of two major orchestral works on GENUIN, marking the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus’s relocation from Weimar to Dessau: the Anhaltische Philharmonie of the Bauhaus city Dessau, under its general music director Markus L. Frank, pairs Mussorgsky’s „Pictures at an Exhibition“ (in Ravel’s orchestration) with „Feininger Fractals“ by Eisenach-born composer Thomas Buchholz (b. 1961) – two orchestral works closely connected to visual art. The finely spun textures of Buchholz, who in this work engages with Bauhaus master Lyonel Feininger, and the endless colors of Mussorgsky/Ravel are in the best hands with this Dessau ensemble. Magnificent but not pompous, virtuosic yet full of meaning, the orchestra plays with intelligence and nuance under its chief conductor.
Pizzicato
"The finely composed music makes use of the orchestra in a variety of ways, sometimes giving an important role to instruments that would otherwise be lost in the ensemble. The 12 movements are all very different and consistently exciting, with the greatest coloristic refinement and tonality." Review by Remy Franck, October 14, 2025
Markus L. Frank Conductor
Tonmeister: Holger Busse
Recording: Katharina-Saal, Stadthalle Zerbst, 2025
One of Saxony-Anhalt’s oldest and most tradition-rich orchestras presents a compelling combination of two major orchestral works on GENUIN, marking the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus’s relocation from Weimar to Dessau: the Anhaltische Philharmonie of the Bauhaus city Dessau, under its general music director Markus L. Frank, pairs Mussorgsky’s „Pictures at an Exhibition“ (in Ravel’s orchestration) with „Feininger Fractals“ by Eisenach-born composer Thomas Buchholz (b. 1961) – two orchestral works closely connected to visual art. The finely spun textures of Buchholz, who in this work engages with Bauhaus master Lyonel Feininger, and the endless colors of Mussorgsky/Ravel are in the best hands with this Dessau ensemble. Magnificent but not pompous, virtuosic yet full of meaning, the orchestra plays with intelligence and nuance under its chief conductor.
Pizzicato
"The finely composed music makes use of the orchestra in a variety of ways, sometimes giving an important role to instruments that would otherwise be lost in the ensemble. The 12 movements are all very different and consistently exciting, with the greatest coloristic refinement and tonality." Review by Remy Franck, October 14, 2025
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Tracklist
- Thomas Buchholz (*1961)
Feininger-Fraktale für großes Orchester
EINS – Fraktale - ZWEI – Fuga
- DREI – Lento
- VIER – Kontrapunkt
- FÜNF – Presto
- SECHS – Largo
- SIEBEN – Giga
- ACHT – Marsch
- NEUN – Walzer
- ZEHN – Air
- ELF – Scherzo
- ZWÖLF – Choral
- Modest Mussorgski (1839–1881)
Bilder einer Ausstellung
Promenade I - I. Gnomus
- Promenade II
- II. Das alte Schloss
- Promenade III
- III. Tuilerien
- IV. Bydło
- Promenade IV
- V. Ballett der Küchlein in ihren Eierschalen
- VI. Samuel Goldenberg und Schmuyle
- VII. Der Marktplatz von Limoges
- VIII. Katakomben (Sepulcrum Romanum)
- Con mortuis in lingua mortua
- IX. Die Hütte der Baba-Jaga
- X. Das große Tor von Kiew
One of Saxony-Anhalt’s oldest and most tradition-rich orchestras presents a compelling combination of two major orchestral works on GENUIN, marking the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus’s relocation from Weimar to Dessau: the Anhaltische Philharmonie of the Bauhaus city Dessau, under its general music director Markus L. Frank, pairs Mussorgsky’s „Pictures at an Exhibition“ (in Ravel’s orchestration) with „Feininger Fractals“ by Eisenach-born composer Thomas Buchholz (b. 1961) – two orchestral works closely connected to visual art. The finely spun textures of Buchholz, who in this work engages with Bauhaus master Lyonel Feininger, and the endless colors of Mussorgsky/Ravel are in the best hands with this Dessau ensemble. Magnificent but not pompous, virtuosic yet full of meaning, the orchestra plays with intelligence and nuance under its chief conductor.
Pizzicato
"The finely composed music makes use of the orchestra in a variety of ways, sometimes giving an important role to instruments that would otherwise be lost in the ensemble. The 12 movements are all very different and consistently exciting, with the greatest coloristic refinement and tonality." Review by Remy Franck, October 14, 2025