Release Date: 02 January 2012
Label: Cpo - Full Price / CPO
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 3
Barcode: 761203760220
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Telemann
Description
Cpo is proud to present the world premiere recording of Georg Philipp Telemann's opera Germanicus. Telemann had made reference to writing twenty operas during his four years in Leipzig, but sadly the scores have been lost and very few librettos and arias are extant. Michael Maul has proven that some 40 arias discovered at the Frankfurt University Library were from Telemann's Germanicus and its modern premiere took place with Gotthold Schwarz and the Saxon Baroque Orchestra. Germanicus is a tale of love, lust and political intrigue based very loosely on events during the first-century occupation of Teutonic territory by the Romans. Since only arias survive, for recitatives Maul substituted a tongue-in-cheek narrative wittily delivered by actor Dieter Bellmann.
Tracklisting
Slovak Chamber Orchestra; Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss am Rhein; Salzburger Hofmusik; Bohdan Warch
Munchner Rundfunkorchester; Valentin Egel
Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt; Howard Griffiths
L'Orfeo Barockorchester; Michi Gaigg
Kyra Steckeweh; GewandhausChor Leipzig; Gregor Meyer
Orfeo Bo:Gaigg
Elena Harsanyi; Caroline Marcot; Andre Cruz; Thomas Bonni; Kolner Akademie; Michael Alexander Wille
Gernot Submuth; Ramon Jaffe; Monica Gutman
Richard Cook, St Edmundsbury Cathedral Choir, Claudia Grinnell
Mvsica Perdvta
Iker Munduate
Gunta Smirnova, Mikayel Balyan
Young Artists of the Rome Chamber Music Festival/Flavio Emilio Scogna
Toby Carr
Tobias Tietze
The Choir of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge; Andrew Lawrence-King (psaltery & harp); David Skinne
