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Alexander Zemlinsky

ES WAR EINMAL (ONCE UPON A TIME) · Opera Complete Recording (Remastered Edition)
EVA JOHANSSON · KURT WESTI · PER ARNE WAHLGREN · THE DANISH RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA · HANS GRAF

2CD-Set · C5440 PC: 21 (Special Price) UPC: 845221054407

A Fairy-tale Opera in a Prologue and three Acts

Text: Maximilian Singer nach / after: Holger Drachmann „Der var engang“
Prinzessin / Princess: EVA JOHANSSON
Prinz / Prince: KURT WESTI
Kaspar: PER ARNE WAHLGREN
König / King: AAGE HAUGLAND
Ein Freier / A Suitor: OLE HEDEGAARD
Ein Schweizer / A Commissionaire: GUIDO PAEVATALU
Kommandant / Commander – 
Herold / Herald: CHRISTIAN CHRISTIANSEN
Erste Hofdame / First Lady In Waiting: SUSSE LILLESOE
THE DANISH NATIONAL RADIO CHORUS
(Choreinstudierung / Chorus Master: Kaare Hansen)
THE DANISH RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
HANS GRAF, Dirigent / conductor

 
By the 1890's Zemlinsky had already acquired a reputation as a promising young composer and pianist. In October 1897 Gustav Mahler had become director of the Vienna Hofoper and was determined to do what he could to help Zemlinsky. With characteristic energy Mahler worked his way through the opera with Zemlinsky, advising on and making changes in the music and the libretto. The resulting score provides a fascinating and little-explored document for both Zemlinsky and Mahler studies. Es war einmal received its first performance under Mahler on the 22 January 1900. For the Zemlinsky 150th Birthday Anniversary, Capriccio presents a new remastered edition of this legendary first recording from 1987. 

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