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MIECZYSŁAW WEINBERG: DIE PASSAGIERIN

(Opera Complete Recording) · DSHAMILJA KAISER · NADJA STEFANOFF
Chor der Oper Graz · Grazer Philharmoniker · Roland Kluttig

2CD · C5455 PC: 22 UPC: 845221054551

Opera in two acts, eight scenes and one epilogue Op. 97 (1968)
Libretto: Alexander Medvedev after the novel by Zofia Posmysz
Lisa: DSHAMILJA KAISER
Marta: NADJA STEFANOFF
Walter: WILL HARTMANN
Tadeusz: MARKUS BUTTER
CHOR DER OPER GRAZ 
(Einstudierung / Chorus Master: Bernhard Schneider)
GRAZER PHILHARMONIKER  · ROLAND KLUTTIG Dirigent/conductor

‘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 Mieczysław Weinberg’s powerful Holocaust drama continues to gain international recognition.  

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HENZE: DAS VERRATENE MEER

Opera Complete Recording
Bo Skovhus · Vera-Lotte Boecker · Josh Lovell · Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper · Simone Young

2CD · C5460 PC: 22 UPC: 845221054605

‘I find myself increasingly occupied with matters of the human soul, its sublimation and spiritual abyss. Certainly my opera The Ocean Betrayed betrays this preoccupation. This music has been to Hades and back, with Monteverdi and myself.’ Hans-Werner Henze based the story for Das verratene Meer (‘The Sea Betrayed’) on Japanese writer Yuko Mishima’s 1963 novel, Gogo no Eiko (‘The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea’). The book offers an unsettling scenario ‘in which the struggle for normality is doomed to failure’. A young widow, Fusako, falls for a merchant navy officer, Ryuji, creating tension with her son, Noboru, who belongs to a violent gang that will exact revenge on the widow’s lover. Through symphonic interludes, the ‘angry, betrayed sea’ becomes the drama’s witness and its narrative voice in Henze’s painfully dark and brutal opera. 

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Premiere Portraits: Franziska Lee

MICHAEL TIPPETT · BENJAMIN BRITTEN · FRANK BRIDGE · JOHN IRELAND · ARNOLD BAX
Franziska Lee, piano

C3010 PC: 01 UPC: 845221030104

Franziska Lee has made a name for herself as an exceptional pianist capable of eliciting an orchestral palette of colours from the piano. Following her debut CD featuring an exclusively 20th-century French programme (Capriccio C3006), Lee has devoted her second recording to British composers of the same period. Together they tell a story of their time, from Britten’s exuberant Holiday Diary, a joyful interlude between the wars, to Tippett’s escapist Piano Sonata No. 1, written on the eve of the Second World War. With effortless virtuosity and musical insight Lee shines a light on a lesser-known corner of the piano repertoire.
 

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#bruckner24 Symphony #8 (1890)

(Complete Versions Edition)
Bruckner Orchester Linz - Markus Poschner

C8081 PC: 21 UPC: 845221080819

This Complete Versions Edition includes all versions published or to be published under the auspices of the
Austrian National Library in the Neue Anton Bruckner Gesamtausgabe
(New Anton Bruckner Collected Works 
Edition).


Anton Bruckner burst out of the confines of the cathedral using that most secular of musical forms, the symphony. The creator of some of the 19th century’s greatest orchestral music, Bruckner cut a singular figure among his contemporaries. This new complete Bruckner Symphonies edition from Capriccio reassesses these enduringly enigmatic and complex works. Presented by the Bruckner Orchestra Linz and the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, and featuring all 19 available versions, the cycle is scheduled for completion in 2024, Bruckner’s 200th birthday. The second release, of Symphony No. 8 (1890 version) is performed by Bruckner Orchestra Linz conducted by Markus Poschner.

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HINDEMITH: MATHIS DER MALER

Wolfgang Koch · Kurt Streit · Charles Reid · Manuela Uhl · Franz Grundheber
Slowakischer Philharmonischer Chor · Wiener Symphoniker · Bertrand de Billy

3CD-Set · C5450 PC: 22 UPC: 845221054506

PAUL HINDEMITH (1895-1963)
MATHIS DER MALER
Oper in sieben Bildern / Opera in seven scenes (1938)

Libretto: Paul Hindemith

MATHISHofmaler des Erzbischofs: Wolfgang Koch
ALBRECHT VON BRANDENBURG
Kardinal und Erzbischof von Mainz: Kurt Streit
LORENZ VON POMMERSFELDENDomdechant: Martin Snell
WOLFGANG CAPITORat des Kardinals: Charles Reid
RIEDINGEREin reicher Mainzer Bürger: Franz Grundheber
URSULAseine Tochter: Manuela Uhl
HANS SCHWALBein Bauernführer: Raymond Very
REGINAseine Tochter: Katerina Tretyakova
SYLVESTER VON SCHAUMBURGOffizier: Oliver Ringelhahn
TRUCHSESS VON WALDBURGHeeresbefehlshaber: Ben Connor
GRÄFIN HELFENSTEINMagdalena Anna Hofmann 
DER PFEIFER DES GRAFENAndrew Owens

Slowakischer Philharmonischer Chor
WIENER SYMPHONIKER · BERTRAND DE BILLY
 
Mathis der Maler is the central composition of Paul Hindemith’s output for music theater. The reception began with its successful premiere of a symphony of three orchestral parts from the opera, in March of 1934 in Berlin. That was still before the composer was attacked in the National-Socialist press which prompted a defense of Furtwängler’s in a newspaper article titled “The Hindemith Case”. The opera wasn’t premiered until May 1938, in Zurich, where the Hindemith’s had emigrated to, before moving on to the United States. Much as Mathis, who found his political engagement in the Peasant’s War and his calling to paint solely for the glory of God to collide with the expectation to positions himself on religious matters during the Reformation, Hindemith found himself torn between his refusal to propagate for the Nazis, his urge to follow his inner voice, and the demand that he position himself against the regime. These highly acclaimed performances from 2012 at Theater an der Wien with Opera Star Roland Koch in the title role is finally now available as CD-Release.

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