Krenek: Orpheus und Eurydike / Steinberg, Vienna Radio Symphony

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Orfeo
Release Date
January 13, 2017
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      KRENEK, ERNST
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Orf-Choir, Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna
    • PERFORMER
      Steinberg, Hamilton, Vejzovic
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 13, 2017
    • UPC
      4011790923222
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ORF-C923162I
    • LABEL
      Orfeo
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. Act I Scene 1: Du bist zurück (Eurydike, Orpheus)

      Composer: Ernst Krenek

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

      Performer: Ronald Hamilton, Dunja Vejzovic

      Conductor: Pinchas Steinberg

    2. Act I Scene 1: So - Du mein Kind? (Eurydike, Psyche, Orpheus)

      Composer: Ernst Krenek

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

      Performer: Celina Lindsley, Dunja Vejzovic, Ronald Hamilton

      Conductor: Pinchas Steinberg

    3. Act I Scene 1: Laß' mich zu Deinen Füßen dulden (Orpheus, Eurydike)

      Composer: Ernst Krenek

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

      Performer: Dunja Vejzovic, Ronald Hamilton

      Conductor: Pinchas Steinberg

    4. Act I Scene 2: Etwas Böses hockt auf der Schwelle (Psyche, Drei Furien)

      Composer: Ernst Krenek

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

      Performer: Celina Lindsley, Jutta Geister

      Conductor: Pinchas Steinberg

    5. Act I Scene 3: Sendung ist, Du sollst zu Hades hinabsteigen (Alle Drei Furien, Eurydike)

      Composer: Ernst Krenek

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

      Performer: Dunja Vejzovic, Cornelia Kallisch, Gabriele Schreckenbach, Jutta Geister

      Conductor: Pinchas Steinberg

    6. Act I Scene 3: Du verläßt mich (Orpheus, Eurydike, Drei Furien)

      Composer: Ernst Krenek

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

      Performer: Dunja Vejzovic, Jutta Geister, Ronald Hamilton

      Conductor: Pinchas Steinberg

    7. Act I Scene 3: Sag', bist Du jetzt mit mir zufrieden? (Eurydike, Orpheus, Drei Furien)

      Composer: Ernst Krenek

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

      Performer: Dunja Vejzovic, Jutta Geister, Ronald Hamilton

      Conductor: Pinchas Steinberg

    8. Act II Scene 1: Welche Harmonien, welche Hoffnung (Eurydike, Psyche, Orpheus)

      Composer: Ernst Krenek

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

      Performer: Celina Lindsley, Dunja Vejzovic, Ronald Hamilton

      Conductor: Pinchas Steinberg

    9. Act II Scene 2: Schwebende Wesen (Orpheus, Eurydike)

      Composer: Ernst Krenek

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

      Performer: Dunja Vejzovic, Ronald Hamilton

      Conductor: Pinchas Steinberg

    10. Act II Scene 3: Amor! Wir falten die Hände (Alle Matrosen, Erste Furie, Dritte Furie, Zweite Furie, Narr)

      Composer: Ernst Krenek

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

      Performer: Cornelia Kallisch, Jutta Geister, Gabriele Schreckenbach, Wilfried Gahmlich, Bo Skovhus

      Conductor: Pinchas Steinberg

    11. Act II Scene 4: Mir träumte, Du wolltest mich verstoßen (Eurydike, Orpheus)

      Composer: Ernst Krenek

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

      Performer: Dunja Vejzovic, Ronald Hamilton

      Conductor: Pinchas Steinberg

    12. Act II Scene 4: Als mein Gedächtnis an das obere Leben (Eurydike, Orpheus, Alle Matrosen)

      Composer: Ernst Krenek

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

      Performer: Dunja Vejzovic, Wilfried Gahmlich, Ronald Hamilton

      Conductor: Pinchas Steinberg

    13. Act III Scene 1: Also Bettler, so betrogen bin ich nun selbst (Orpheus, Landleute, Betrunkener, Weiber, Ein Krieger)

      Composer: Ernst Krenek

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

      Performer: Bo Skovhus, Hans Franzen, Ronald Hamilton

      Conductor: Pinchas Steinberg

    14. Act III Scene 2: Eurydikes Glück über dem meinigen vergaß ich (Psyche)

      Composer: Ernst Krenek

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

      Performer: Celina Lindsley

      Conductor: Pinchas Steinberg

    15. Act III Scene 3: Tanzen! Tanzen! (Orpheus)

      Composer: Ernst Krenek

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

      Performer: Ronald Hamilton

      Conductor: Pinchas Steinberg

    16. Act III Scene 3: Es muss einen Weg geben (Geist der Eurydike, Orpheus)

      Composer: Ernst Krenek

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

      Performer: Dunja Vejzovic, Ronald Hamilton

      Conductor: Pinchas Steinberg

    17. Act III Scene 3: Oh, im Feuer schwelend, versteckt sich das Gesicht? (Orpheus, Geist der Eurydike)

      Composer: Ernst Krenek

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

      Performer: Ronald Hamilton, Dunja Vejzovic

      Conductor: Pinchas Steinberg

    18. Act III Scene 3: Nachspiel: Niemand hier? (Psyche, Chor der Mädchen, Chor der Burschen)

      Composer: Ernst Krenek

      Ensemble: ORF Vienna Radio Choir, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

      Performer: Celina Lindsley

      Conductor: Pinchas Steinberg


The festival’s co-founder Strauss was a contemporary composer in his time, still capable of writing new and original works more than two decades later, and so the performance of contemporary works remains at the heart of the Festival’s identity, not least as a commitment and a counterbalance to assiduous cultivation of the classics. At a time in which the umpteenth new recording of classical works often seems less than essential, credit is all the more due to the Festival for programming “new music” that is already over a century old. One of this year’s new releases is Krenek’s Orpheus und Eurydike, a work that is several things rolled into one: “classical” subject-matter in the sense of a further reworking – in this case, of the creation myth of opera itself, not just since Monteverdi (1607), but since the primal “big bang” of the operatic cosmos with Caccini/Peri (1600); one of the timeless tales of human existence linking love, longing for the past and their transcendence in art; a bang-up-to-date work of art that nevertheless remains a work of its time, the era in which the Festival was founded; and above all a festal tribute to honour the 90th birthday of a major 20th-century composer. Krenek himself attended the1990 Festival performance documented here. Kokoschka’s stormily Expressionist narrative was put to paper between 1915 and 1917 in the aftermath of a passionate love affair with Alma Mahler, and set to music in headstrong mixed style by Schoenberg’s highly independent pupil between then and 1923. Given the literary standing of the librettist (and of the composer), ORFEO is additionally printing the libretto (from which the title of our text is taken), also bearing in mind that this recording is the first and only one ever to be released.