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AAAC 25th April: Zemlinksy - Lyric Symphony (Eschenbach, Goerne, Schafer)

[image] So it is time to introduce a little culture into the AAAC. And what better place to start off the journey into the wide world of classical music than… Zemlinksy. Always last in the CD racks now, he was also in the shadows during his life and more famous for the people he was connected to than for himself. He went after Alma Schindler (who later married Mahler), then wrote Ein Florentische Tragedie as a barely disguised portrayal of the time she slapped it up wi…