"Egon Wellesz was born into an affluent Jewish family and had every expectation of a brilliant musical career in his home city of Vienna. Like many another he had reckoned without the malign intervention of Hitler's Third Reich. He fled to England where he remained after the war. The first five symphonies proclaim their roots in the great Germanic symphonic tradition with links to Schubert, Bruckner and Mahler but all increasingly viewed through Schoenberg's 12-tone 'glass'. The present set is the only way to hear the Wellesz symphonies. The conductor's notes about the recording process tells us that Wellesz's printed scores and mss were littered with errors. Fortunately Rabl was able to examine sketches and galley proofs at the National Library in Vienna and has made all the necessary corrections. The recordings of these deeply serious and sometimes unsettling symphonies are uniformly superb – lively, three dimensional and natural." (MusicWeb International)
"Egon Joseph Wellesz, CBE, FBA (21 October 1885 – 9 November 1974) was an Austrian, later British composer, teacher and musicologist, notable particularly in the field of Byzantine music. (...) Wellesz composed at least 112 works with opus numbers as well as some 20 without numbers. His large scale dramatic works (including six operas) were mostly completed during his Vienna period (the main exception being the comic opera Incognita, written with the Oxford poet Elizabeth Mackenzie and first staged there in 1952). Robert Layton said Alkestis was "probably his most remarkable achievement for the stage. Its invention is marvellously sustained and organically conceived"." (Wikipedia)
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