Frank Wildhorn’s The Symphonic Suites - Favorite Musical Theatre Scores Reimagined on Orchestral Album Out On 27 February
Original Symphonic Interpretations of
Dracula, Jekyll & Hyde, Einstein: A Matter Of TIme & XCalibur
Performed By The Vienna Independent Orchestra, All-Star Ensemble Featuring Musicians From
The Vienna Philharmonic and The Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Vienna – February 27, 2026 – Composer Frank Wildhorn’s The Symphonic Suites, comprised of new symphonic interpretations of four of his celebrated musical theatre scores—including Dracula, Jekyll & Hyde, Einstein: A Matter of Time, and Artus Excalibur (aka XCalibur)--will be released worldwide on Friday, February 27 on CD and major digital platforms via Prestige Classics/Hit Squad Records. The Vienna Independent Orchestra, an all-star ensemble featuring handpicked musicians from the Vienna Philharmonic and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, was brought together specially to record this music. Acclaimed composer Frank Wildhorn (Jekyll & Hyde, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Death Note, Bonnie & Clyde) continues to bridge the worlds of musical theatre and classical music having also recently written the full length symphonies, the Donau Symphonie and the Odessa Symphonie, both recorded and live premiered by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. A third symphony titled, Vienna has been announced.
Speaking on The Symphonic Suites, Wildhorn says, “It's a much more impressionistic, atmospheric, process and journey that we're taking. We're defining characters solely in musical vocabularies. These are stories that everybody kind of knows in their own mind and that's the point. You hear each suite and the music opens up your imagination and takes you where it does in a way that only a symphonic adaptation can do.”
The Tony, Grammy and Emmy Award nominated Composer of pop, rock, jazz, r&b and country as well as musical theatre and classical continues, “This is a really cool opportunity to offer a new experience of the music to the people who have been supportive of my work for so many years in the theatre world and for them to hear familiar pieces in different ways. And if I can bring some people who are now aware of my classical work and introduce them through that musical vocabulary into my theatre world, that's cool too.”
Continuously propelled to push the boundaries of the depth and reach of his music, Wildhorn shares, “I feel like we're at the very beginning of another chapter of my musical life. I want to write a ballet within the new symphony that I'm working on right now,” Wildhorn says of “Vienna, his third Symphony which is scheduled to be recorded with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra this Spring. Whether that's gonna work or not, I have no idea, but I'm taking the shot, and I'm doing it.”
Frank Wildhorn’s The Symphonic Suites is composed by Frank Wildhorn and conducted by Koen Schoots. The individual suites feature arrangements and orchestrations by Koen Schoots for Dracula, Einstein - A Matter of Time, and Artus-XCalibur and by Kim Scharnberg for Jekyll & Hyde. Walter Feucht is credited with Idea and Realization and co-producer on the project with Martin Böhm & Ludwig Coss for Hitsquad Records
You can find Frank Wildhorn’s Symphonic Suites here:
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https://smartlinks.artistcamp.com/9120006685009/
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/5tgQ88T1Z5ZWbnuZYRJF5R
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Tidal:
https://tidal.com/album/494039106
Deezer:
https://www.deezer.com/us/album/907330782
Credits: Frank Wildhorn’s The Symphonic Suites
Idea & Realization: WALTER FEUCHT
Produced by MARTIN BÖHM & LUDWIG COSS for Hitsquad Records & WALTER FEUCHT
Music: FRANK WILDHORN
Conductor: KOEN SCHOOTS
Dracula:
Composer: FRANK WILDHORN
Arrangements & Orchestration: KOEN SCHOOTS
Jekyll & Hyde:
Composer: FRANK WILDHORN
Arrangements & Orchestration: KIM SCHARNBERG
Einstein - A Matter of Time:
Composer: FRANK WILDHORN
Arrangements & Orchestration: KOEN SCHOOTS
Artus- XCalibur
Composer: FRANK WILDHORN
Arrangement & Orchestration: KOEN SCHOOTS
Executive Producer: WALTER FEUCHT, MARTIN BÖHM, MICHAEL STARINGER
VIENNA INDEPENDENT ORCHESTRA
Recorded on the 12th and 13th of May 2025 @ Wiener Musikverein / Brahmssaal
Mixed by; MARTIN BÖHM @ MG-SOUND Studios Vienna
Assistant Mixer: NINA BÖHM
Recorded by: MARTIN BÖHM, NINA BÖHM, WERNER WEITSCHACHER, DANIEL BUCHER, ALBERT PAUSER, MIKE MLANGO
Edit by: WERNER WEITSCHACHER , NINA BÖHM, DANIEL SILVEIRA
Mastering by: WERNER WEITSCHACHER @ MG-SOUND Studios Vienna
Musician Coordination: DOMINIK SCHNAITT, DANIEL OTT
Production Coordination, Contracting: ALBERT PAUSER
Distribution: MG-SOUND Music Supply – order@mg-sound.com
Prestige Classics Vienna is a member of HitSquad Records Group
Catalogue Nr. 668500 • www.mg-sound.com • © + ® Prestige Classics Vienna 2026
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