Keiser: Ulysses - Musicalisches Schauspiel in drei Akten / Adamske, Göttingen Baroque Orchestra

$32.99
Label
Coviello
Release Date
May 20, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Reinhard Keiser
    • PERFORMER
      Bogna Bernagiewicz, Francisca Prudencio, Gerald Thompson, Goetz Philipp Korner, Janno Scheller, Jurg
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 20, 2022
    • UPC
      4039956922032
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      COV92203
    • LABEL
      Coviello
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical

His colleague Georg Philipp Telemann, who was only a few years older, described him as "the greatest mind of his time". Reinhard Keiser is a striking example of a musician who was held in the highest esteem in his time, but is hardly present today. He wrote numerous stage works for the Hamburg Opera at the Gänsemarkt. A special position in Keiser's oeuvre is occupied by the opera Ulysses from 1722: it is based on the work of another. Jean-Féry Rebel had already presented an opera of the same name in Paris in 1703; librettist Friedrich Maximilian von Lersner translated the literary model into German. Keiser made a virtue out of the necessity of adaptation and created a highly virtuosic combination of German text, French splendor and the Italian passion that was already common in the opera business at the time and which he mastered to perfection. The Göttingen Baroque Orchestra and an illustrious group of soloists present this ingenious and highly enjoyable mix of styles with passionate enthusiasm.