The three composers featured on this recording, remarkable for expressiveness and virtuosity, were all deeply rooted in fin-de-siècle Vienna. They were banned by the dictatorships of the 1930s, then blacklisted in the aftermath of the Second World War by the young European avant-garde. Only in recent years has the beauty of their works been newly appreciated. Vienna-born conductor Sascha Goetzel writes: “With Korngold, Schreker and Krenek, we’re not just hearing music – we’re entering a dialogue between past and present, tradition and rebellion, myth and modernity […] Korngold embodies the emotional sincerity and creative ambition of the late Romantic tradition. Schreker immerses us in the subconscious – mythical, unstable, and rich in feeling. Krenek breaks through the façade, injecting irony, jazz and fragmentation into the orchestral form […] In their own ways, each composer pushes back against inherited conventions to discover new languages of sound.”