tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1128626999798771742005-10-06T20:29:00.000+01:002005-10-06T20:29:00.000+01:002005-10-06T20:29:00.000+01:00I also have in my collection Walter Braunfels's sacred-drama/oratorio "Verkündigung" (The Annunciation), based upon Paul Claudel, which, as you know Pliable, Dennis Russell Davies recorded with the Cologne Symphony and Chorus in 1992, for EMI. However, I recall the text was only in German so one must first find the Claudel play in French or English, if one's German is limited. Also, this work was from 1945, following twelve years of "internal exile" by the composer (similar to Karl Amadeus Hartmann and others), and not from the "pre-War" period.<BR/><BR/>And I recall that composer-conductor Paul Kletzki's Symphony #2 (1928) received a world premiere recording in 1998 on the Musica Helvetica label under Dmitri Kitaenko. The final movement sets the resigned poem by Karl Stamm which translates as "Sleep, Sleep, O World".Garth Trinklhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00952837886402774649noreply@blogger.com