Kalman: Die Bajadere / Daumm, Bonynge, WDR Funkhausorchester

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CPO
Release Date
February 24, 2017
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    Featuring
    • COMPOSER
      KALMAN, EMMERICH
    • PERFORMER
      Daum, Trost, Vondung, Genz, Turk, Sturm, Schmitz, Hielscher, Wdr Rundfunkchor Koeln, Wdr Fundkhausor
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      February 24, 2017
    • UPC
      761203798223
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      777982-2
    • LABEL
      CPO
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
    Works
    1. Act I: No. 1. Introduction: Reizend war der erste Akt (Féfé, Armand, Chorus)

      Composer: Emmerich Kálmán

      Ensemble: WDR Rundfunkchor Köln, Cologne Radio Orchestra

      Performer: Christian Sturm

      Conductor: Richard Bonynge

    2. Act I: No. 2. Duet: Treu zu sein (Marietta, Napoleon)

      Composer: Emmerich Kálmán

      Ensemble: Cologne Radio Orchestra

      Performer: Anke Vondung, Stephan Genz

      Conductor: Richard Bonynge

    3. Act I: No. 2. Musikalischer Auftritt - Melodram: Merci bien (Odette, Radjami, Chorus)

      Composer: Emmerich Kálmán

      Ensemble: WDR Rundfunkchor Köln, Cologne Radio Orchestra

      Performer: Heike Susanne Daum, Rainer Trost

      Conductor: Richard Bonynge

    4. Act I: No. 3. Ensemble und Lied: Dein will auf ewig ich sein (Odette, Radjami, Chorus)

      Composer: Emmerich Kálmán

      Ensemble: WDR Rundfunkchor Köln, Cologne Radio Orchestra

      Performer: Heike Susanne Daum, Rainer Trost

      Conductor: Richard Bonynge

    5. Act I: No. 4. Ensemble und Entree Odette: Reizend war der zweite Akt (Odette, Pimprinette, Direktor, Dr. Cohen, Chorus)

      Composer: Emmerich Kálmán

      Ensemble: WDR Rundfunkchor Köln, Cologne Radio Orchestra

      Performer: Heike Susanne Daum, Ulrich Hielscher

      Conductor: Richard Bonynge

    6. Act I: No. 5 Duet: Lotosblume, ich liebe dich (Odette, Radjami)

      Composer: Emmerich Kálmán

      Ensemble: Cologne Radio Orchestra

      Performer: Heike Susanne Daum, Rainer Trost

      Conductor: Richard Bonynge

    7. Act I: No. 6. Duet: Reizend ist's nach Müh' und Plag (Marietta, Napoleon)

      Composer: Emmerich Kálmán

      Ensemble: Cologne Radio Orchestra

      Performer: Anke Vondung, Stephan Genz

      Conductor: Richard Bonynge

    8. Act I: No. 7. Finale: Das wird' ich nicht! (Odette, Marietta, Radjami, Napoleon, Louis-Philipp, Parker, Chorus)

      Composer: Emmerich Kálmán

      Ensemble: Cologne Radio Orchestra

      Performer: Heike Susanne Daum, Anke Vondung

      Conductor: Richard Bonynge

    9. Act II: No. 8. Introduction, Tanz und Liedfoxtrott: Oh, Champagner, sperrst uns auf das Himmelreich (Marietta, Chorus)

      Composer: Emmerich Kálmán

      Ensemble: WDR Rundfunkchor Köln, Cologne Radio Orchestra

      Performer: Anke Vondung

      Conductor: Richard Bonynge

    10. Act II: No. 8a. Lied: Tanz mit mir (Marietta, Chorus)

      Composer: Emmerich Kálmán

      Ensemble: WDR Rundfunkchor Köln, Cologne Radio Orchestra

      Performer: Anke Vondung

      Conductor: Richard Bonynge

    11. Act II: No. 9. Musikalische Szene und Duett: Du, du, du sollst das Glück meiner Seele nun sein (Odette, Radjami)

      Composer: Emmerich Kálmán

      Ensemble: Cologne Radio Orchestra

      Performer: Heike Susanne Daum, Rainer Trost

      Conductor: Richard Bonynge

    12. Act II: No. 10. Duet: Bogenlampen glitzern durch den Winternachmittag (Marietta, Napoleon)

      Composer: Emmerich Kálmán

      Ensemble: Cologne Radio Orchestra

      Performer: Anke Vondung, Stephan Genz

      Conductor: Richard Bonynge

    13. Act. II: No. 11. Terzett: Na, ist sie nicht ein süßer Schatz (Marietta, Napoleon, Louis-Philipp)

      Composer: Emmerich Kálmán

      Ensemble: Cologne Radio Orchestra

      Performer: Anke Vondung, Stephan Genz, Miljenko Turk

      Conductor: Richard Bonynge

    14. Act II: No. 12. Duet: Weil wir oft lieben den Mann (Odette, Radjami)

      Composer: Emmerich Kálmán

      Ensemble: Cologne Radio Orchestra

      Performer: Heike Susanne Daum, Rainer Trost

      Conductor: Richard Bonynge

    15. Act II: No. 13. Finale 2: Wie, der Prinz will wirklich sich heute noch vermählen (Odette, Radjami, Parker, Dewa Singh, Chorus)

      Composer: Emmerich Kálmán

      Ensemble: WDR Rundfunkchor Köln, Cologne Radio Orchestra

      Performer: Heike Susanne Daum, Rainer Trost, Dirk Schmitz

      Conductor: Richard Bonynge

    16. Act III: No. 14. Einleitung und Melodram: Die kleine Bar (Marietta, Napoleon, Chorus)

      Composer: Emmerich Kálmán

      Ensemble: WDR Rundfunkchor Köln, Cologne Radio Orchestra

      Performer: Anke Vondung, Stephan Genz

      Conductor: Richard Bonynge

    17. Act III: No. 15. Duet: Will man heutzutage schick und modern sein (Marietta, Louis-Philipp)

      Composer: Emmerich Kálmán

      Ensemble: Cologne Radio Orchestra

      Performer: Anke Vondung, Miljenko Turk

      Conductor: Richard Bonynge

    18. Act III: No. 15. Musikalische Szene: Lotosblume, ich liebe dich (Radjami)

      Composer: Emmerich Kálmán

      Ensemble: Cologne Radio Orchestra

      Performer: Rainer Trost

      Conductor: Richard Bonynge

    19. Act III: No. 16. Lied: Als ich unlängst stand (Napoleon)

      Composer: Emmerich Kálmán

      Ensemble: Cologne Radio Orchestra

      Performer: Stephan Genz

      Conductor: Richard Bonynge

    20. Act III: No. 16. Reminiszenz: Na, ist sie nicht ein süsser Schatz (Marietta, Napoleon, Louis-Philipp)

      Composer: Emmerich Kálmán

      Ensemble: Cologne Radio Orchestra

      Performer: Anke Vondung, Stephan Genz, Miljenko Turk

      Conductor: Richard Bonynge

    21. Act III: No. 17. Schlussgesang: Oh! Bajadere, komm, sei mein (Radjami)

      Composer: Emmerich Kálmán

      Ensemble: Cologne Radio Orchestra

      Performer: Rainer Trost

      Conductor: Richard Bonynge


The Bayadere celebrated its premiere in Vienna in December, 1921. A few months later, in February, 1922, the Metropoltheater in Berlin staged this operetta by Emmerich Kalman. His music brings together Hungarian folk melodies and the Viennese waltz, displays operatic and melodramatic elements, and illustrates the American dance rhythms of its times. In addition, it offers exotic tone colors like those of the tarogato and specific rhythms designed to satisfy the longing for the faraway, foreign India. These ingredients came with the guarantee of musical success. This work numbers among the genuine highlights in the Hungarian composer Kalman's oepretta oeuvre. In 2014, the WDR presented a concert performance of The Bayadere and then went on to produce this work in the studio. The great Richard Bonynge opened the operetta's vibrant introduction with plenty of energy and stormy drive, astonishing for this world-renowned Australian conductor who is now in his seventies. The elegant, slender gentleman with a full head of white hair who has always loved the operetta and whose discography includes many recordings in this field led the WDR Orchestra and the WDR Chorus with precisely trimmed conductor's gestures, so that here Emmerich Kalman's famous Bayadere experienced the right interpretation.