Christopher Maltman, Rachael Wilson, Benjamin Bruns, Münchner Rundfunkorchester & Patrick Hahn – Zemlinsky: A Florentine Tragedy (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 57:12 minutes | 581 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BR-Klassik
Guido Bardi, the son of the Duke of Florence, kneels before Bianca, the wife of the rich merchant Simone, and holds her hands. Simone enters the room, having returned early from a business trip. – The very beginning of Alexander Zemlinsky’s one-act opera based on Oscar Wilde’s “A Florentine Tragedy” in the German translation by Max Meyerfeld shows the conflict from which the tragedy arises. The stage work by the Austrian composer, who was forgotten for many decades, had its world premiere on 30 January 1917 in Stuttgart and was not performed again until 1977.
This BR-KLASSIK album documents the Munich premiere with the Munich Radio Orchestra conducted by Patrick Hahn, which was recorded live in the Prinzregententheater on 27 November 2022.
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John Nelson, Joyce DiDonato, Cyrille Dubois, Christopher Maltman, Orchestre Philharmonique De Strasbourg – Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette, H. 79 – Cléopâtre, H. 36 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:51:56 minutes | 1,86 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics
John Nelson at the head of the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra continues the Berlioz adventure with the dramatic symphony Romeo and Juliet (with Joyce DiDonato, Cyrille Dubois and Christopher Maltman) as well as the lyric scene Cleopatra (with Joyce DiDonato).
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