Krenek’s Orpheus und Eurydike: strikingly effective

Posted by Johannes Feigl on 05 December 2016

Ernst Krenek: Orpheus and Eurydike, Orfeo

“It’s a bit of a patchy, self-indulgent work, but fascinating; the best of Krenek’s angular, expressionist score, mostly atonal though harking back to romantic tonality, is strikingly effective.” (Andrew Clements, The Guardian, 30 November 2016)

Andrew Clements of The Guardian has reviewed Ernst Krenek’s opera Orpheus und Eurydike, recorded at the Salzburg Festival in 1990 under Pinchas Steinberg and now released on Orfeo.

Read the full review on The Guardian

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