Orf Vienna Rso/Buhl - Walter Braunfels: Don Gil. Prelude Op. 35, Divertimento Op. 42, Ariel's Song Op. 18, Serenade Op. 20

�The audience might remember that � as a descendant of writing tonal music � I am still alive and continue composing.� � Walter Braunfels, 1946. Walter Braunfels� music died twice: first, when the Nazis declared his music �degenerate art�; and again when postwar Germany largely rejected tonal music, with arbiters of taste declaring any form of romantic music (almost the whole pre-war aesthetic) to be tainted. This ninth volume in Capriccio�s Braunfels Edition also shows us an open-minded composer who experimented with Jazz elements in his Divertimento for radio-orchestra in 1929. The programme also includes the prelude to his comic opera Don Gil of the Green Breeches, Ariel�s Song and the Serenade in E-flat major.