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Alexander Zemlinsky
DER KÖNIG KANDAULES (Opera Complete Recording) · Remastered Edition
JAMES O’NEAL · MONTE PEDERSON · NINA WARREN · PHILHARMONISCHES STAATSORCHESTER HAMBURG GERD ALBRECHT
JAMES O’NEAL · MONTE PEDERSON · NINA WARREN · PHILHARMONISCHES STAATSORCHESTER HAMBURG GERD ALBRECHT
2CD-Set C5443
PC: 21 (Special Price)
UPC: 845221054438
König Kandaules: JAMES O’NEAL
Gyges: MONTE PEDERSON
Nyssia: NINA WARREN
Phedros: KLAUS HÄGER
Syphax: PETER GALLIARD
Nicomedes: MARIUSZ KWIECIEN
Pharnaces: KURT GYSEN
Philebos: SIMON YANG
PHILHARMONISCHES STAATSORCHESTER HAMBURG
GERD ALBRECHT, Dirigent / conductor
When the German troops occupied Austria in 1938, he fled with his wife Louise via Prague to New York, with the short score of Canduales in his luggage. Zemlinsky attached great hopes of producing the piece at the Met but on account of the somewhat delicate bed scene in the 2nd act they dismissed the production. Building a new existence once more remained denied to Zemlinsky. Only half a year after his arrival he suffered a stroke from which he was never fully to recover. For Zemlinsky’s 150th Birthday Anniversary, Capriccio presents a new remastered edition of this legendary first recording from 1996.
