Release Date: 30 November 2016
Label: Cpo - Full Price / CPO
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 761203765423
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: NICOLAI
Description
A magnificent work revealing that there is more to Otto Nicolai than The Merry Wives of Windsor! The action is set during the Wars of the Roses in the fifteenth century. Many years earlier Lord Artur Norton was forced to leave his country. Since his wife Leonore, believing him dead, has become engaged to marry Count Edmund of Pembroke. However, on their wedding day her missing husband returns. The two men initially insist on the validity of their claims to Leonore, but then Edmund generously concedes that Leonore belongs to Artur and declares that he is ready to renounce his beloved bride. He even secures a pardon for his rival from the king. However, it is precisely this act of kindness that makes it impossible for Leonore to decide between the two men. Instead she takes her own life.
Tracklisting
Slovak Chamber Orchestra; Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss am Rhein; Salzburger Hofmusik; Bohdan Warch
Gernot Submuth; Ramon Jaffe; Monica Gutman
Thomas Christian Ensemble
Silke Aichhorn; Sudwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim; Douglas Bostock
ORF Radio Symphonieorchester Wien; Johannes Wildner
Mitteldeutsches Klaviertrio
Maja Mijatovic; Sieglinde Grobinger; Ensemble Klingekunst
Fanie Antonelou; Andreas Heinemeyer; Mirko Ludwig; Matthias Vieweg; Hanna Zumsande; barockwerk hamb
Schumann Phil/Beerman
