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Hans Gal: Das Lied Der Nacht

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Format: 2CD

Cat No: 555186-2

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Release Date:  01 March 2019

Label:  Cpo - Full Price / CPO

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  2

Barcode:  761203518623

Genres:  Classical  Opera  

Composer/Series:  Hans Gal

  • Description

    fter 1933 nobody had the opportunity to hear this opera. Then the Osnabrück Music Theater rediscovered Das Lied der Nacht by Hans Gál and performed it in 2017. This late-romantic opera to a text by Karl Michael von Levetzow premiered in 1926, but since its composer was of Jewish origin, the Nazis prohibited stage productions of it. During his later years Hans Gál was doubly forgotten: as one of the many Jewish artists who were forced into exile by the Fascists and as a conservative very-latest romanticist pursuing paths laid out by Brahms and Richard Strauss. He himself described Das Lied der Nacht as a dramatic ballad symbolically representing the emotional world of a Sicilian hereditary princess destined for sovereignty. The text set in twelfth-century Palermo evokes a magical, romantic world in which Antiquity and Byzantine and Moorish elements combine to form a synthesis of rare fascination and a lyrical blend of European and Oriental culture.