Vom Tod im Wald, Op. 23
(1927)
Ballad for bass solo and ten wind instruments.
Text by Bertolt Brecht.







Performance Information

English title: Death in the Forest
Orchestra: 2 cl, 2 bn (cbn), 2 hn, 2 tpt, tbn, bass tbn.
Duration: 9 minutes
First performance: November 23, 1927, Berlin, Heinrich Hermanns, vocalist, members of the Berlin Philharmonic, Eugen Lang, cond.
 

Recordings
 
LP DG 2740 153
Polydor 429 333-2
CD DG 459 442-2
CD DG 463 529-2
Michael Rippon, bass
The London Sinfonietta
David Atherton, cond.
Harmonia Mundi HMC 901422
Peter Kooy, 
Ensemble Musique Oblique, 
Philippe Herreweghe, cond.
Ondine ODE 771-2
Tomas Möwes, 
Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra,
Max Pommer, cond.