The first audiobook CD to explore the highly influential Bauhaus school of art and architecture, which operated in Germany between 1919 and 1933.
The spoken word element centres on a revealing talk by Walter Gropius, the architect and theoretician who founded the Bauhaus in 1919. The CD also includes contributions from the school's third and final director, architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and teacher Josef Albers. All interviews are in the English language. The music content of the CD features piano pieces written between 1919 and 1925 by six composers associated with the Bauhaus: Arnold Schoenberg, Josef Matthias Hauer, George Antheil, Stefan Wolpe and H.H. Stuckenschmidt. Several of these pieces reflect serialism and 12-tone technique; most are performed by Steffen Schleiermacher on piano. With a generous running time of 72 minutes, the CD also features a deluxe booklet featuring archive Bauhaus images and detailed historical notes by James Hayward.

 tracklist

01 JOSEF MATTHIAS HAUER Phantasie Op. 17 (1919)
02 WALTER GROPIUS On The Origins Of The Bauhaus
03 STEFAN WOLPE Variation (1923)
04 WALTER GROPIUS On Form And Totality
05 GEORGE ANTHEIL Shimmy (1923)
06 WALTER GROPIUS On Klee, Itten, Kandinsky, Feininger And Moholy-Nagy
07 STEFAN WOLPE Stehende Musik (1925)
08 JOSEF ALBERS On Handling And Texture
09 WALTER GROPIUS On Albers And Functionalism
10 H. H. STUCKENSCHMIDT Marsch Alexander des Grossen über die Brücken von Hamburg (1923)
11 WALTER GROPIUS On Selection And Students
12 ARNOLD SCHOENBERG Piano Piece Number 1 Op. 23
13 WALTER GROPIUS On Meyer And Mies Van Der Rohe
14 JOSEF ALBERS On Politics And Meyer
15 WALTER GROPIUS On Industrial Contracts
16 ARNOLD SCHOENBERG Suite for Piano Op. 25
17 WALTER GROPIUS On Utopianism
18 LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE On Architecture As Language
19 WALTER GROPIUS On The Future Of Architecture