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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

MATHIS, Hofmaler des Erzbischofs: Wolfgang Koch
ALBRECHT VON BRANDENBURG, 
Kardinal und Erzbischof von Mainz: Kurt Streit
LORENZ VON POMMERSFELDEN, Domdechant: Martin Snell
WOLFGANG CAPITO, Rat des Kardinals: Charles Reid
RIEDINGER, Ein reicher Mainzer Bürger: Franz Grundheber
URSULA, seine Tochter: Manuela Uhl
HANS SCHWALB, ein Bauernführer: Raymond Very
REGINA, seine Tochter: Katerina Tretyakova
SYLVESTER VON SCHAUMBURG, Offizier: Oliver Ringelhahn
TRUCHSESS VON WALDBURG, Heeresbefehlshaber: Ben Connor
GRÄFIN HELFENSTEIN: Magdalena Anna Hofmann 
DER PFEIFER DES GRAFEN: Andrew 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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NIKOLAI KAPUSTIN

Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 4 · Concerto for violin, piano and strings · Chamber Symphony
Frank Dupree · Rosanne Philippens · Meinhard Jenne · Württembergisches Kammerorchester · Case Scaglione

C5437 PC: 21 845221054377

‘……our life is like jazz improvisation, it should always be spontaneous, always in the moment, and always free.’ Nikolai Kapustin
Drawing parallels to another famous composer of symphonic jazz, Kapustin is occasionally considered a ‘Russian in Gershwin’s clothing’. Most of his compositions are influenced by jazz and expertly combine jazz elements with those of the tradition from Bach to Prokofiev and Stravinsky. The aesthetic diversity with which classical garb and the stylistic devices of jazz are amalgamated in Kapustin’s output could be taken as the byword for all three compositions included on this recording. Only late – perhaps too late for Kapustin – did his catalogue of works reach greater international recognition. People who knew him, describe him as a man who never desired the limelight. Apparently, he was happiest when he was able to compose work after work in his apartment, far away from the public eye.

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