Gál: Das Lied Der Nacht, Op. 23 / Hotz, Osnabrucker Symphonieorchester

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CPO
Release Date
April 12, 2019
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    Featuring
    • COMPOSER
      GAL, HANS
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Osnabrucker Symphonieorchester
    • PERFORMER
      Opernchor Des Theaters Osnabruck, Hotz
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 12, 2019
    • UPC
      761203518623
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      555186-2
    • LABEL
      CPO
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
    Works
    1. Act I: Es ist unerhört! (Folgedamen, Galwine, Hämone)

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Ensemble: Osnabrück Theatre Chorus, Osnabrück Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Miyuki Sanli, Susann Vent-Wunderlich

      Conductor: Andreas Hotz

    2. Act I: Verehrte Damen, wisst ihr Neues? (Kanzler, Folgedamen, Hämone)

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Ensemble: Osnabrück Theatre Chorus, Osnabrück Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Oliver Weidinger, Susann Vent-Wunderlich

      Conductor: Andreas Hotz

    3. Act I: Tancred! Herr Tancred! Seid uns gegrüßt! (Folgedamen, Tancred, Hämone, Galwine)

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Ensemble: Osnabrück Theatre Chorus, Osnabrück Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Rhys Jenkins, Susann Vent-Wunderlich, Miyuki Sanli

      Conductor: Andreas Hotz

    4. Act I: Herr Tancred! (Lianora, Tancred)

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Ensemble: Osnabrück Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Lina Liu, Rhys Jenkins

      Conductor: Andreas Hotz

    5. Act I: Lianora, die Stunde drängt (Tancred, Folgedamen, Lianora, Kanzler, Hämone)

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Ensemble: Osnabrück Theatre Chorus, Osnabrück Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Rhys Jenkins, Lina Liu, Oliver Weidinger, Susann Vent-Wunderlich

      Conductor: Andreas Hotz

    6. Act I: Sie selbst, die steinerne Äbtissin! (Folgedamen, Äbtissin, Nonnen, Lianora)

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Ensemble: Osnabrück Theatre Chorus, Osnabrück Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Gritt Gnauck, Kathrin Brauer, Heike Hollenberg, Radoslava Yordanova, Lina Liu

      Conductor: Andreas Hotz

    7. Act I: Jahrelang hielt ich das heimliche Zepter (Äbtissin, Lianora, Nonnen)

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Ensemble: Osnabrück Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Gritt Gnauck, Lina Liu, Kathrin Brauer, Heike Hollenberg, Radoslava Yordanova

      Conductor: Andreas Hotz

    8. Act I: Was ist gewesen? (Lianora, Ciullo, Folgedamen, Kanzler, Männer)

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Ensemble: Osnabrück Theatre Chorus, Osnabrück Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Lina Liu, Ralph Ertel, Oliver Weidinger

      Conductor: Andreas Hotz

    9. Act I: Nachen, mein Nachen gegen die Wellen! (Namenloser Sänger, Lianora)

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Ensemble: Osnabrück Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Ralph Ertel, Lina Liu

      Conductor: Andreas Hotz

    10. Act II: Prelude

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Ensemble: Osnabrück Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Andreas Hotz

    11. Act II: Noch immer ist die Prinzessin traurig? (Hämone, Lianora)

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Ensemble: Osnabrück Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Susann Vent-Wunderlich, Lina Liu

      Conductor: Andreas Hotz

    12. Act II: Ich gehe, Lianora (Hämone, Lianora)

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Ensemble: Osnabrück Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Susann Vent-Wunderlich, Lina Liu

      Conductor: Andreas Hotz

    13. Act II: Die Sommernacht nur summt (Lianora, Namenloser Sänger)

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Ensemble: Osnabrück Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Lina Liu, Ralph Ertel

      Conductor: Andreas Hotz

    14. Act II: Mit wem spricht die Prinzessin bei Nacht? (Tancred, Lianora, Namenloser Sänger)

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Ensemble: Osnabrück Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Rhys Jenkins, Lina Liu, Ralph Ertel

      Conductor: Andreas Hotz

    15. Act II: Was ist gewesen? (Lianora, Namenloser Sänger)

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Ensemble: Osnabrück Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Lina Liu, Ralph Ertel

      Conductor: Andreas Hotz

    16. Act II: Lass … lass mich jetzt (Lianora, Namenloser Sänger)

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Ensemble: Osnabrück Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Lina Liu, Ralph Ertel

      Conductor: Andreas Hotz

    17. Act III: Introduction

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Ensemble: Osnabrück Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Andreas Hotz

    18. Act III: Mit Myrthenblüten (Folgedamen, Männer, Hämone, Galwine, Tancred)

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Ensemble: Osnabrück Theatre Chorus, Osnabrück Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Susann Vent-Wunderlich, Miyuki Sanli, Rhys Jenkins

      Conductor: Andreas Hotz

    19. Act III: Genug, Herr Tancred! (Lianora, Hämone, Kanzler, Tancred)

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Ensemble: Osnabrück Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Lina Liu, Susann Vent-Wunderlich, Oliver Weidinger, Rhys Jenkins

      Conductor: Andreas Hotz

    20. Act III: Interlude

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Ensemble: Osnabrück Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Andreas Hotz

    21. Act III: Heil, Lianora! Heil! (Volk, Lianora, Kanzler, Tancred)

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Ensemble: Osnabrück Theatre Chorus, Osnabrück Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Lina Liu, Oliver Weidinger, Rhys Jenkins

      Conductor: Andreas Hotz

    22. Act III: Nachen, mein Nachen, wohin verschlagen? (Namenloser Sänger, Volk, Lianora)

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Ensemble: Osnabrück Theatre Chorus, Osnabrück Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Ralph Ertel, Lina Liu

      Conductor: Andreas Hotz

    23. Act III: Ah, Schmach! (Lianora, Tancred, Volk, Kanzler, Ciullo, Chorus)

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Ensemble: Osnabrück Theatre Chorus, Osnabrück Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Lina Liu, Rhys Jenkins, Oliver Weidinger, Ralph Ertel

      Conductor: Andreas Hotz

    24. Act III: Komm, Schwester Lianora! (Äbtissin, Nonnen)

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Ensemble: Osnabrück Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Gritt Gnauck, Kathrin Brauer, Heike Hollenberg, Radoslava Yordanova

      Conductor: Andreas Hotz


After 1933 nobody had the opportunity to hear this opera. Then the Osnabrück Music Theater rediscovered Das Lied der Nacht by Hans Gál and performed it in 2017. This late-romantic opera to a text by Karl Michael von Levetzow premiered in 1926, but since its composer was of Jewish origin, the Nazis prohibited stage productions of it. During his later years Hans Gál was doubly forgotten: as one of the many Jewish artists who were forced into exile by the Fascists and as a conservative "very-latest romanticist" pursuing paths laid out by Brahms and Richard Strauss. He himself described Das Lied der Nacht as a "dramatic ballad" symbolically representing the emotional world of a Sicilian hereditary princess destined for sovereignty. The text set in twelfth-century Palermo evokes a magical, romantic world in which Antiquity and Byzantine and Moorish elements combine to form a synthesis of rare fascination and a lyrical blend of European and Oriental culture. After the premiere at the end of May 2017, the NOZ wrote, "Fantastic music, a good libretto, a marvelous performance, an all-around successful rediscovery that the premiere audience in the Osnabrück Theater celebrated with abundant applause." Now on cpo and an absolute listening must!