Release Date: 19 November 2021
Label: Capriccio - Cd / Capriccio
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 845221054551
Composer/Series: Mieczys?aw Weinberg
Description
‘I simply cannot stop enthusing about Weinberg’s The Passenger. I’ve heard it three times now, studied the score, and every time I understand more of the beauty and greatness of this music. It is a work of consummate form and style and its subject extremely relevant.’ – Dmitri Shostakovich. In 1960, Lisa – formerly a guard at Auschwitz and now the wife of a West German diplomat – is on an ocean liner bound to Brazil. She thinks she recognises in another passenger a woman named Martha, a Polish prisoner under her direct jurisdiction. Through a series of flashbacks across two acts, eight scenes and one epilogue, the audience witnesses the final reckoning between two women as they attempt to escape their pasts. The Passenger premiered in 2010 at the Bregenz Festival. With this new production by Oper Graz composer Mieczys?aw Weinberg’s powerful Holocaust drama continues to gain international recognition.
Tolzer Knabenchoir:Wiener
Timpe:Accademia Per Musica
St Martin Itf/Marriner
Stefan Vladar
Stancul/Dsp Rheinland/Rumpf
Stagg/Brass Quintet Dsob
Staatskapelle Dresden/Kuhn
Spivakov Vladimir:Conlon
