Ballad for bass solo and ten wind instruments.
Text by Bertolt Brecht.
Performance Information
Recordings
English title: Death in the Forest
Orchestra: 2 cl, bn, cbn (bn), 2 hn, 2 tpt, tbn, bass tbn.
Duration: 9 minutes
Performance Materials: USA, UK, BREV: EAMC
All other territories: UE
First performance: November 23, 1927, Berlin, Heinrich Hermanns, vocalist, members of the Berlin Philharmonic, Eugen Lang, cond.
Guide to orchestration, territory abbreviations, and publishers' symbols.
| DGG CD 289 459 442-2 | Michael Rippon, bass, The London Sinfonietta, David Atherton, cond. |
| Harmonia Mundi CD HMC 901422; reissued as HMA 1951422 | Peter Kooy, Ensemble Musique Oblique, Philippe Herreweghe, cond. |
| Ondine CD ODE 771-2 | Tomas Möwes, Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Max Pommer, cond. |
| Glossa CD GCDSA 922207 |
Jacob Bloch Jespersen, I Solisti del Vento, Paul Hillier, cond. |