Der Ferne Klang / Jennifer Holloway, Ian Koziara

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Label
Oehms Classics
Release Date
May 14, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      SCHREKER, FRANZ
    • PERFORMER
      Various
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 14, 2021
    • UPC
      4260034869806
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      OC980
    • LABEL
      Oehms Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      3
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Act I: Prelude

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

      Conductor: Sebastian Weigle

    2. Act I Scene 1: Du willst wirklich fort, Fritz (Grete, Fritz)

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

      Performer: Jennifer Holloway, Ian Koziara

      Conductor: Sebastian Weigle

    3. Act I Scene 1: Als du tratst in mein armes Leben (Grete, Fritz)

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

      Performer: Jennifer Holloway, Ian Koziara

      Conductor: Sebastian Weigle

    4. Act I Scene 2: Frau Mama zu Hause, mein reizendes Kind? (Alte, Grete)

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

      Performer: Nadine Secunde, Jennifer Holloway

      Conductor: Sebastian Weigle

    5. Act I Scene 3: Was weinst denn? (Mutter, Grete)

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

      Performer: Barbara Zechmeister, Jennifer Holloway

      Conductor: Sebastian Weigle

    6. Act I Scene 4: Nur herein meine Herrn (Graumann, Wirt, Schauspieler, Chorus)

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Chor der Oper Frankfurt, Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

      Performer: Magnús Baldvinsson, Anthony Robin Schneider, Iurii Samoilov

      Conductor: Sebastian Weigle

    7. Act I Scene 4: Das war ein lustiges Spiel! (Vigelius, Grete, Graumann, Mutter, Chorus)

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Chor der Oper Frankfurt, Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

      Performer: Dietrich Volle, Jennifer Holloway, Magnús Baldvinsson, Barbara Zechmeister

      Conductor: Sebastian Weigle

    8. Act I Scene 5: Fräulein sollten sichs überlegen (Wirt, Grete, Mutter)

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

      Performer: Anthony Robin Schneider, Jennifer Holloway, Barbara Zechmeister

      Conductor: Sebastian Weigle

    9. Act I Scene 6: Ich kann nicht! Fritz, ich komme dir nach! (Grete)

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

      Performer: Jennifer Holloway

      Conductor: Sebastian Weigle

    10. Act I Scene 7: Fritz find' ich nicht mehr (Grete)

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

      Performer: Jennifer Holloway

      Conductor: Sebastian Weigle

    11. Act I Scene 8: Liegt ein schönes Kindchen in Moos! (Grete, Alte)

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

      Performer: Jennifer Holloway, Nadine Secunde

      Conductor: Sebastian Weigle

    12. Act II: Prelude - Wenn der Abend kommt (Chorus)

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Chor der Oper Frankfurt, Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

      Conductor: Sebastian Weigle

    13. Act II Scene 1: Meine Liebste (Graf, Milli, Mary, Mizi, Spanierin)

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

      Performer: Gordon Bintner, Bianca Andrew, Julia Moorman, Julia Dawson, Kelsey Lauritano

      Conductor: Sebastian Weigle

    14. Act II Scene 4: Nun wer wird denn da wieder verlästert? (Graf, Milli, Mizi, Mary, Spanierin, Baron, Chorus)

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Chor der Oper Frankfurt, Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

      Performer: Gordon Bintner, Bianca Andrew, Julia Dawson, Julia Moorman, Kelsey Lauritano, Iain MacNeil

      Conductor: Sebastian Weigle

    15. Act II Scene 6: Greta! Endlich! (Grete, Chorus)

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Chor der Oper Frankfurt, Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

      Performer: Jennifer Holloway

      Conductor: Sebastian Weigle

    16. Act II Scene 6: Sagen Sie mir doch, Marchesa (Grete, Mizi, Baron, Graf, Chorus)

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Chor der Oper Frankfurt, Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

      Performer: Jennifer Holloway, Julia Dawson, Iain MacNeil, Gordon Bintner

      Conductor: Sebastian Weigle

    17. Act II Scene 6: In einem Lande ein bleicher König (Graf)

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

      Performer: Gordon Bintner

      Conductor: Sebastian Weigle

    18. Act II Scene 6: Eine Schauergeschichte, Graf! (Chevalier, Chorus)

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Chor der Oper Frankfurt, Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

      Performer: Theo Lebow

      Conductor: Sebastian Weigle

    19. Act II Scene 6: Zum Teufel, die albernen Scherze! (Graf, Chevalier, Grete, Chorus)

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Chor der Oper Frankfurt, Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

      Performer: Gordon Bintner, Theo Lebow, Jennifer Holloway

      Conductor: Sebastian Weigle

    20. Act II Scene 8: Hier? So viel Menschen (Fritz, Grete)

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

      Performer: Ian Koziara, Jennifer Holloway

      Conductor: Sebastian Weigle

    21. Act II Scene 8: Schuldbeladen und reuig (Fritz, Grete, Graf, Chorus)

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Chor der Oper Frankfurt, Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

      Performer: Ian Koziara, Jennifer Holloway, Gordon Bintner

      Conductor: Sebastian Weigle

    22. Act II Scene 8: Was ist das? Du sprichst so seltsam! (Fritz, Grete, Graf)

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

      Performer: Ian Koziara, Jennifer Holloway, Gordon Bintner

      Conductor: Sebastian Weigle

    23. Act II Scene 9: Ist der Liebste fern (Grete, Graf, Chorus)

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Chor der Oper Frankfurt, Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

      Performer: Jennifer Holloway, Gordon Bintner

      Conductor: Sebastian Weigle

    24. Act III Scene 1: Du sitzt nun wieder im Trock'nen - was? (Vigelius, Schauspieler, Kellnerin)

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

      Performer: Dietrich Volle, Iurii Samoilov, Bianca Andrew

      Conductor: Sebastian Weigle

    25. Act III Scene 2: Das Theater schon aus? (Kellnerin, First Chorist, Vigelius, Schauspieler)

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

      Performer: Bianca Andrew, Theo Lebow, Dietrich Volle, Iurii Samoilov

      Conductor: Sebastian Weigle

    26. Act III Scene 3: So, da setzen Sie sich (Polizist, Grete, Vigelius, First Chorist, Schauspieler, Kellnerin, Individuum)

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

      Performer: Anatolii Suprun, Jennifer Holloway, Dietrich Volle, Theo Lebow, Iurii Samoilov, Bianca Andrew, Hans-Jürgen Lazar

      Conductor: Sebastian Weigle

    27. Act III Scene 6: Mein Herr, Sie irren sich wohl (Grete, Individuum, Kellnerin, Second Chorist, Schauspieler, Vigelius)

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

      Performer: Jennifer Holloway, Hans-Jürgen Lazar, Bianca Andrew, Magnús Baldvinsson, Iurii Samoilov, Dietrich Volle

      Conductor: Sebastian Weigle

    28. Act III Scene 8: Ein solcher Skandal! (Grete, Vigelius)

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

      Performer: Jennifer Holloway, Dietrich Volle

      Conductor: Sebastian Weigle

    29. Act III: Zwischenspiel (Interlude)

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

      Conductor: Sebastian Weigle

    30. Act III Scene 9: Wie seltsam das ist! (Fritz)

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

      Performer: Ian Koziara

      Conductor: Sebastian Weigle

    31. Act III Scene 10: Du, so früh? (Fritz, Rudolf)

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

      Performer: Ian Koziara, Sebastian Geyer

      Conductor: Sebastian Weigle

    32. Act III Scene 10: Dirne! Ja, ja, das war es (Fritz, Rudolf)

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

      Performer: Ian Koziara, Sebastian Geyer

      Conductor: Sebastian Weigle

    33. Act III Scene 11: Mir ist so seltsam zu Mut (Fritz, Diener)

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

      Performer: Ian Koziara, Anatolii Suprun

      Conductor: Sebastian Weigle

    34. Act III Scene 13: Verzeihn Sie mir, Herr (Vigelius, Fritz, Grete)

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

      Performer: Dietrich Volle, Ian Koziara, Jennifer Holloway

      Conductor: Sebastian Weigle

    35. Act III Scene 15: Hast Du mir verziehn? (Fritz, Grete)

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

      Performer: Ian Koziara, Jennifer Holloway

      Conductor: Sebastian Weigle

    36. Act III Scene 15: Grete! Hörst du den Ton? (Fritz, Grete)

      Composer: Franz Schreker

      Ensemble: Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

      Performer: Ian Koziara, Jennifer Holloway

      Conductor: Sebastian Weigle


Der ferne Klang by Franz Schreker (1878-1934) premiered on August 18, 1912 at the Frankfurt Opera House. Schreker had already begun composing his first full-length opera in 1901, after the text he had written in just a few weeks. Now the work, which was initially considered impossible to perform, but which made Schreker suddenly famous, is returning to the location of it's premiere for the first time after 1945. Almost half of all operas by the Austrian, who with one exception was both composer and librettist for all of his stage works, performed or premiered in Frankfurt. The Choir of the Oper Frankfurt and Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester perform under the direction of Sebastian Weigle.

"Oper Frankfurt is arguably the “right” company to produce this Der ferne Klang recording, because Austrian composer Franz Schreker (1878-1934) had a special connection with this opera house. It was here that he scored his first big success with this opera, followed by the premiere of his complete version of Die Gezeichneten, two of his most definitive works. His musical idiom is decidedly Late/Post Romantic, yet uniquely his own, beguiling in its lush and translucent tone colours. His style can also extend into an intensely expressionistic and harmonically adventurous, if unsettling, musical soundscape. At the height of his fame during the early years of the Weimar Republic, Schreker was the most performed opera composer after Richard Strauss. He was also a noted pedagogue, as director of Berlin’s Hochschule für Musik, and counted Berthold Goldschmidt and Ernst Krenek as his students. But by the late 1920s, with the rise of National Socialism and its inherent antisemitism, Schreker, who was Jewish, lost his academic appointments and his compositions were banned. Sadly he descended into obscurity, suffered a stroke and died at the age of 56. It was only in the 1980s, through Decca’s “Entartete Musik” series, that Schreker reemerged from a decades-long obscurity. His revival gathered momentum both in Germany and America. Salzburg Festival’s striking 2005 Die Gezeichneten garnered critical and audience accolades, reaffirmed by the more recent Warlikowski production in Munich, which made a powerful (if nightmarish) impression on me in 2017...

Thankfully, Oper Frankfurt’s production of Der ferne Klang was revived before COVID shut everything down, and it is now commercially available on CD. It features a strong ensemble cast led by tenor Ian Koziara and soprano Jennifer Holloway as the two lovers. Both sing beautifully, with Koziara taking top vocal honours for his free, beautiful, never stentorian, ringing tone. Holloway is equally impressive, a few fleeting moments of steely sound notwithstanding.

This recording includes no less than three Canadians— bass-baritone Gordon Bintner, baritone Iain MacNeil, and mezzo Julia Dawson—all members of the Oper Frankfurt Ensemble. Bintner, as the Graf, has the most music to sing, including a very nice aria, “In einem Lande,” which he handles beautifully, particularly at the top. MacNeil and Dawson have less to sing but both offer fresh voices and vivid imagination. All supporting roles are well taken, perhaps with one painful exception. I debated whether to mention it as it involves a singer I have admired in the past. I heard soprano Nadine Secunde (Alte Frau Mama) as a marvelous Sieglinde and Elsa 30 years ago. Here she is in shockingly poor vocal estate, afflicted by a painful wobble —perhaps in character for an ‘Old Lady’, but does it have to be this way? Sebastian Weigle shows his fine understanding of Schreker, leading the Frankfurt forces with strength and eloquence— the Zwischenspiel in Act III is a highlight. This piece might not delight everybody, but if you are fond of Strauss and early Schoenberg, and have an inclination to stories with a Freudian bent, you are in for a treat.

The opera’s story has little to do with logic, yet is strangely suited to Schreker’s lush and atmospheric score. As the listener, one takes a journey of poetic imagination that’s oddly satisfying. This is a perfect opera to illustrate that one should listen not with the head but with the heart. As with a lot of Schreker, the visual element is important, if not crucial, to the total enjoyment of the work, so it’s regrettable that this isn’t a DVD release. That said, it is still very enjoyable and an important addition to the discography of a much neglected composer. Highly recommended." —— Joseph So