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11 KURZOPERN The Original Electrola One-Act Operas 1975 - 1980
Brilliant operatic gems – 11 short-operas with all-star casts in a complete edition
When great masters compose miniature operas, the result is – well, masterly. Mozart, Weber, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Gluck, Lortzing and D' Albert: one-act operas from these famous pens are true gems of music history – and of the EMI archives. The Electrola recordings of these 11 short operas (mostly in Singspiel form) were made in the 1970's, but thanks to their all-star casts, which are nothing short of legendary, they seem as fresh as ever. Now EMI is releasing them in a complete edition for the first time.
"I was regularly surprised to find that there are still some undiscovered little jewels among the minor works of major composers" – thus Ekkehard Pluta in the magazine Klassik heute, reporting on these small but entirely fine works when they first appeared on CD in 1998: We hear the brilliant young Mendelssohn as composer of two Singspiele that were performed in the family circle, we hear Schubert's still little-known contributions to the musical repertoire of the Vienna Volkstheater, Weber's Abu Hassan and – especially delightful – works where the composer made fun of the music scene of his day, such as Lortzing's Opernprobe or Mozart's Schauspieldirektor. In addition to the commendable rediscovery of this repertoire, the recordings derive special appeal from outstanding singers, who wittily recreate the generally light-hearted spirit of these works: singers like Nicolai Gedda, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Edda Moser, Anneliese Rothenberger, Helen Donath, Hermann Prey and Kurt Moll.
CD 1 Mozart: Bastien und Bastienne
Brigitte Lindner, Kurt Moll, Adolf Dallapozza
Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Eberhard Schoener
CD 2 Mozart: Der Schauspieldirektor
Prosa von und mit Peter Ustinov
Maddy Mesplé, Edda Moser, Nicolai Gedda, Klaus Hirte
Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Eberhard Schoener
CD 3 Gluck: Der betrogene Kadi
Anneliese Rothenberger, Helen Donath, Walter Berry,
Nicolai Gedda, Klaus Hirte
Chor und Orchester der Bayerischen Staatsoper München, Otmar Suitner
CD 4 Schubert: Der vierjährige Posten
Helen Donath, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Peter Schreier, Willi Brokmeier
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Heinz Wallberg
CD 5 Schubert: Die Zwillingsbrüder
Helen Donath, Nicolai Gedda, Kurt Moll, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Chor und Orchester der Bayerischen Staatsoper München, Wolfgang Sawallisch
CD 6 Schubert: Die Verschworenen
Edda Moser, Gabriele Fuchs, Elke Schary, Kurt Moll, Adolf Dallpozza
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Heinz Wallberg
CD 7 Carl Maria von Weber: Abu Hassan
Edda Moser, Nicolai Gedda, Kurt Moll
Chor und Orchester der Bayerischen Staatsoper München, Wolfgang Sawallisch
CD 8 Lortzing: Die Opernprobe
Regina Marheineke, Nicolai Gedda, Klaus Hirte, Walter Berry
Chor und Orchester der Bayerischen Staatsoper München, Otmar Suitner
CD 9 Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Die beiden Pädagogen
Gabriele Fuchs, Krisztina Laki, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Klaus Hirte, Adolf Dallapozza
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Heinz Wallberg
CD 10 Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Die Heimkehr aus der Fremde
Helen Donath, Hanna Schwarz, Peter Schreier, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Heinz Wallberg
CD 11 d’Albert: Die Abreise
Hermann Prey, Edda Moser, Peter Schreier
Philharmonia Hungarica, Janos Kulka
EMI 11cds 4643142
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