Walter Arlen

Walter Arlen was an Austrian-born composer and music critic who fled Vienna after the 1938 Anschluss and established his career in the United States, working primarily in art song and contemporary classical music. His musical style combined late Romantic lyricism with 20th-century harmonic language, and his work—often reflective on exile and Jewish identity—evolved to include songs, chamber pieces and piano works that gained renewed attention late in his life.

Releases

The Song of Songs / The Poet in Exile

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