Hear music from Zemlinsky's two one-act operas based on works by Oscar Wilde. The American Symphony Orchestra, Leon Botstein, cond. It's been 65 years since the death of Viennese composer Alexander ...

Hans Christian Andersen's music has been inspiring composers for the better part of two centuries. Alexander Zemlinsky is one of many in that long line. Before we hear the first and fourth movements ...

Vladimir Jurowski has long been an advocate of Alexander Zemlinsky (1871-1942), regularly programming his music alongside that of Gustav Mahler, whom Zemlinsky idolised, and with whose wife Alma he ...

Alexander Zemlinsky's four quartets seem underrated. They are among the finest composed in Europe in the first half of the 20th century, but are rarely mentioned in the same breath as those by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rodrick Dixon as the Dwarf in Los Angeles Opera's production of the Alexander Zemlinsky work. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times) ...

Donald Macleod introduces the ugly, beautiful, hyper-expressive musical world of Alexander Zemlinsky and his turbulent early life in pre-war Vienna. Many people famously considered Zemlinsky ...

Brahms is the dominant spirit behind four early chamber works from the 1890s by Alexander Zemlinsky. Zemlinsky was criticised, praised and helped by Brahms, and seems to have had elements of the older ...

There hasn’t been much written about it, but a fairly amazing little project has been unfolding at EMI. The American conductor James Conlon, now primarily associated with the Paris Opera, has been ...

Zemlinsky wrote to Schoenberg that “a great artist…must respect the boundaries of beauty, even if he extends them far further than hitherto”. That seems an apt description for his own string quartets.