Release Date: 01 January 2017
Label: Cpo - Full Price / CPO
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 761203796229
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Alexander von Zemlinsky
Description
Even seventy-five years after his death Alexander von Zemlinsky continues to be overshadowed by his pupil, colleague, friend, and brother-in-law Arnold Schönberg, all because he presumably was not so much a member of the avant-garde. Die Seejungfrau (The Mermaid) is an enigmatic and absolutely fabulous work based on the fairy tale of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen. First rediscovered in the mid-1970s, it has become one of Zemlinsky’s most popular works. This genuine product of the musical art nouveau – fantastic and highly unified, suggestive and lavishly pictorial, and instrumented with an extraordinary feel for colors – abounds in vivid themes and motifs that make a profound and lasting impression on each and every listener. In addition, we are presenting two little samples from Zemlinsky’s second (fairy tale) opera, Es war einmal (Once Upon a Time), one of the young composer’s first great successes at the Vienna Court Opera.
Tracklisting
Slovak Chamber Orchestra; Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss am Rhein; Salzburger Hofmusik; Bohdan Warch
Gernot Submuth; Ramon Jaffe; Monica Gutman
Yannick Debus; Ulrike Hofbauer; Anita Rosati; Nina Bernsteiner; Nils Wanderer; Seda Amir-Karayan; M
THERESIA; Vanni Moretto
Tanja Becker-Bender; Kurpfalzisches Kammerorchester Mannheim; Johannes Schlaefli
Stephanie Varnerin; L'Astree
Solomon's Knot; Les Passions de l'Ame; Jonathan Sells; Meret Luthi
Mathis Rochat; Stephen Waarts; Christine Theus; Camerata Schweiz; Howard Griffiths
