Bruch: Die Loreley / Blunier, Munich Radio Orchestra

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Label
CPO
Release Date
January 4, 2019
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BRUCH, MAX
    • PERFORMER
      Various
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 04, 2019
    • UPC
      761203700523
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      777005-2
    • LABEL
      CPO
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      3
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Act I: Introduction

      Composer: Max Bruch

      Ensemble: Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Conductor: Stefan Blunier

    2. Act I: Recitative and Aria: Wir sind am Ort (Otto, Leupold)

      Composer: Max Bruch

      Ensemble: Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Performer: Thomas Mohr, Benedikt Eder

      Conductor: Stefan Blunier

    3. Act I: Seit ich von mir geschieden (Lenore, Otto)

      Composer: Max Bruch

      Ensemble: Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Performer: Michaela Kaune, Thomas Mohr

      Conductor: Stefan Blunier

    4. Act I: Recitative and Duet: Lenore! (Otto, Lenore)

      Composer: Max Bruch

      Ensemble: Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Performer: Thomas Mohr, Michaela Kaune

      Conductor: Stefan Blunier

    5. Act I: Ave-Maria! (Lenore, Chorus)

      Composer: Max Bruch

      Ensemble: Philharmonischer Chor Prag, Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Performer: Michaela Kaune

      Conductor: Stefan Blunier

    6. Act I: Rührt euch frisch (Hubert, Chorus)

      Composer: Max Bruch

      Ensemble: Philharmonischer Chor Prag, Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Performer: Sebastian Campione

      Conductor: Stefan Blunier

    7. Act I: Recitative: Doch sprich, Vater Hubert (Winzerin, Hubert)

      Composer: Max Bruch

      Ensemble: Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Performer: Danae Kontora, Sebastian Campione

      Conductor: Stefan Blunier

    8. Act I: Wir grüßen dich fein (Winzerin, Lenore, Chorus)

      Composer: Max Bruch

      Ensemble: Philharmonischer Chor Prag, Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Performer: Danae Kontora, Michaela Kaune

      Conductor: Stefan Blunier

    9. Act I: Lasst im Wind die Banner wallen (Hubert, Otto, Bertha, Lenore, Reinald, Chorus)

      Composer: Max Bruch

      Ensemble: Philharmonischer Chor Prag, Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Performer: Sebastian Campione, Thomas Mohr, Magdalena Hinterdobler, Michaela Kaune, Jan-Hendrik Rootering

      Conductor: Stefan Blunier

    10. Act II: Woher am dunkeln Rhein? (Lenore, Chorus)

      Composer: Max Bruch

      Ensemble: Philharmonischer Chor Prag, Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Performer: Michaela Kaune

      Conductor: Stefan Blunier

    11. Act III: Die du auf dem Regenbogen wandelst (Bertha, Otto, Chor)

      Composer: Max Bruch

      Ensemble: Philharmonischer Chor Prag, Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Performer: Magdalena Hinterdobler, Thomas Mohr

      Conductor: Stefan Blunier

    12. Act III: Recitative: Erlauchtes Paar, bereitet ist das Mahl (Leupold, Otto)

      Composer: Max Bruch

      Ensemble: Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Performer: Benedikt Eder, Thomas Mohr

      Conductor: Stefan Blunier

    13. Act III: O Heil dem Herzen (Reinald, Bertha, Otto)

      Composer: Max Bruch

      Ensemble: Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Performer: Jan-Hendrik Rootering, Magdalena Hinterdobler, Thomas Mohr

      Conductor: Stefan Blunier

    14. Act III: Halt ein! (Otto, Bertha, Reinald, Chor)

      Composer: Max Bruch

      Ensemble: Philharmonischer Chor Prag, Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Performer: Thomas Mohr, Magdalena Hinterdobler, Jan-Hendrik Rootering

      Conductor: Stefan Blunier

    15. Act III: Siehst du ihn glühen im Brautpokal? (Lenore as Loreley, Otto, Reinald, Bertha, Chorus)

      Composer: Max Bruch

      Ensemble: Philharmonischer Chor Prag, Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Performer: Michaela Kaune, Thomas Mohr, Jan-Hendrik Rootering, Magdalena Hinterdobler

      Conductor: Stefan Blunier

    16. Act III: Unwiderstehlich lockt ihr Gesang (Lenore, Bertha, Reinald, Otto, Erzbischof, Chorus)

      Composer: Max Bruch

      Ensemble: Philharmonischer Chor Prag, Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Performer: Michaela Kaune, Magdalena Hinterdobler, Jan-Hendrik Rootering, Thomas Mohr, Thomas Hamberger

      Conductor: Stefan Blunier

    17. Act III: Zu euch ihr heil'gen Mauern (Bertha)

      Composer: Max Bruch

      Ensemble: Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Performer: Magdalena Hinterdobler

      Conductor: Stefan Blunier

    18. Act III: O Herrin, fort von hier (Reinald, Bertha)

      Composer: Max Bruch

      Ensemble: Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Performer: Jan-Hendrik Rootering, Magdalena Hinterdobler

      Conductor: Stefan Blunier

    19. Act III: Der du kannst das Herz ergründen (Reinald, Bertha, Erzbischof, Lenore, Otto, Chorus)

      Composer: Max Bruch

      Ensemble: Philharmonischer Chor Prag, Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Performer: Jan-Hendrik Rootering, Magdalena Hinterdobler, Thomas Hamberger, Michaela Kaune, Thomas Mohr

      Conductor: Stefan Blunier

    20. Act IV: Wir bringen des Herbstes köstliche Gabe (Chorus)

      Composer: Max Bruch

      Ensemble: Philharmonischer Chor Prag, Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Conductor: Stefan Blunier

    21. Act IV: Recitative: Mit euern Liedern haltet ein (Hubert, Chorus)

      Composer: Max Bruch

      Ensemble: Philharmonischer Chor Prag, Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Performer: Sebastian Campione

      Conductor: Stefan Blunier

    22. Act IV: Des Tage beim Werk (Hubert, Chorus)

      Composer: Max Bruch

      Ensemble: Philharmonischer Chor Prag, Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Performer: Sebastian Campione

      Conductor: Stefan Blunier

    23. Act IV: Recitative: Folgt mir (Hubert)

      Composer: Max Bruch

      Ensemble: Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Performer: Sebastian Campione

      Conductor: Stefan Blunier

    24. Act IV: O welche Mattigkeit! (Otto, Chorus)

      Composer: Max Bruch

      Ensemble: Philharmonischer Chor Prag, Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Performer: Thomas Mohr

      Conductor: Stefan Blunier

    25. Act IV: Ich hab' mein Herz verloren (Lenore as Loreley, Otto, Chorus)

      Composer: Max Bruch

      Ensemble: Philharmonischer Chor Prag, Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Performer: Michaela Kaune, Thomas Mohr

      Conductor: Stefan Blunier


The Loreley is one of the most famous figures of the romantic era, and even today the massive rock in the Rhine is notorious for threatening the river’s skippers with shipwreck. The legendary female figure with her seductive beauty today no longer haunts the river, but her story continues to resonate in the imagination. In 1861, when he was a mere twenty years old, Max Bruch, a Rhinelander born in Cologne, devoted an opera to the Loreley, a work based on a libretto by the great Emanuel Geibel himself. This opera in four acts is only rarely performed and until now has never been recorded on album. The Munich Radio Orchestra will now change this state of affairs: in a concert performance initiated by cpo the orchestra presented the work under the conductor Stefan Blunier, who was the General Music Director of the City of Bonn – that is, in the vicinity of the Loreley – when the recording was produced. The marvelous Michaela Kaune interpreted the title role in a top-quality performance, and Thomas Mohr was her male counterpart. Bruch set the Loreley story, in which everything, both in ambience and action, constituting a “Grand Romantic Opera” (thus the work’s subtitle) is present, in a highly romantic musical language. It is not without reason that Hans Pfitzner lent his support to this forgotten gem throughout his life.