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Krenek: Orpheus und Eurydike / Steinberg, Vienna Radio Symphony

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Composer
KRENEK, ERNST
Artist
Steinberg, Hamilton, Vejzovic
Format
CD
Label
Orfeo
Released
Jan 13, 2017
Catalog #
ORF-C923162I
UPC
4011790923222

About

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.

Tracklist 18 tracks

  1. Disc 1
  2. 1 Act I Scene 1: Du bist zurück (Eurydike, Orpheus) 04:29
    Track
    1
    Title
    Act I Scene 1: Du bist zurück (Eurydike, Orpheus)
    Duration
    04:29
    Composer
    Ernst Krenek
    Performer
    Ronald Hamilton, Dunja Vejzovic
    Ensemble
    Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
    Conductor
    Pinchas Steinberg
  3. 2 Act I Scene 1: So - Du mein Kind? (Eurydike, Psyche, Orpheus) 03:28
    Track
    2
    Title
    Act I Scene 1: So - Du mein Kind? (Eurydike, Psyche, Orpheus)
    Duration
    03:28
    Composer
    Ernst Krenek
    Performer
    Celina Lindsley, Dunja Vejzovic, Ronald Hamilton
    Ensemble
    Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
    Conductor
    Pinchas Steinberg
  4. 3 Act I Scene 1: Laß' mich zu Deinen Füßen dulden (Orpheus, Eurydike) 05:30
    Track
    3
    Title
    Act I Scene 1: Laß' mich zu Deinen Füßen dulden (Orpheus, Eurydike)
    Duration
    05:30
    Composer
    Ernst Krenek
    Performer
    Dunja Vejzovic, Ronald Hamilton
    Ensemble
    Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
    Conductor
    Pinchas Steinberg
  5. 4 Act I Scene 2: Etwas Böses hockt auf der Schwelle (Psyche, Drei Furien) 07:32
    Track
    4
    Title
    Act I Scene 2: Etwas Böses hockt auf der Schwelle (Psyche, Drei Furien)
    Duration
    07:32
    Composer
    Ernst Krenek
    Performer
    Celina Lindsley, Jutta Geister
    Ensemble
    Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
    Conductor
    Pinchas Steinberg
  6. 5 Act I Scene 3: Sendung ist, Du sollst zu Hades hinabsteigen (Alle Drei Furien, Eurydike) 03:51
    Track
    5
    Title
    Act I Scene 3: Sendung ist, Du sollst zu Hades hinabsteigen (Alle Drei Furien, Eurydike)
    Duration
    03:51
    Composer
    Ernst Krenek
    Performer
    Dunja Vejzovic, Cornelia Kallisch, Gabriele Schreckenbach, Jutta Geister
    Ensemble
    Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
    Conductor
    Pinchas Steinberg
  7. 6 Act I Scene 3: Du verläßt mich (Orpheus, Eurydike, Drei Furien) 05:04
    Track
    6
    Title
    Act I Scene 3: Du verläßt mich (Orpheus, Eurydike, Drei Furien)
    Duration
    05:04
    Composer
    Ernst Krenek
    Performer
    Dunja Vejzovic, Jutta Geister, Ronald Hamilton
    Ensemble
    Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
    Conductor
    Pinchas Steinberg
  8. 7 Act I Scene 3: Sag', bist Du jetzt mit mir zufrieden? (Eurydike, Orpheus, Drei Furien) 04:05
    Track
    7
    Title
    Act I Scene 3: Sag', bist Du jetzt mit mir zufrieden? (Eurydike, Orpheus, Drei Furien)
    Duration
    04:05
    Composer
    Ernst Krenek
    Performer
    Dunja Vejzovic, Jutta Geister, Ronald Hamilton
    Ensemble
    Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
    Conductor
    Pinchas Steinberg
  9. 8 Act II Scene 1: Welche Harmonien, welche Hoffnung (Eurydike, Psyche, Orpheus) 07:41
    Track
    8
    Title
    Act II Scene 1: Welche Harmonien, welche Hoffnung (Eurydike, Psyche, Orpheus)
    Duration
    07:41
    Composer
    Ernst Krenek
    Performer
    Celina Lindsley, Dunja Vejzovic, Ronald Hamilton
    Ensemble
    Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
    Conductor
    Pinchas Steinberg
  10. 9 Act II Scene 2: Schwebende Wesen (Orpheus, Eurydike) 06:58
    Track
    9
    Title
    Act II Scene 2: Schwebende Wesen (Orpheus, Eurydike)
    Duration
    06:58
    Composer
    Ernst Krenek
    Performer
    Dunja Vejzovic, Ronald Hamilton
    Ensemble
    Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
    Conductor
    Pinchas Steinberg
  11. 10 Act II Scene 3: Amor! Wir falten die Hände (Alle Matrosen, Erste Furie, Dritte Furie, Zweite Furie, Narr) 08:06
    Track
    10
    Title
    Act II Scene 3: Amor! Wir falten die Hände (Alle Matrosen, Erste Furie, Dritte Furie, Zweite Furie, Narr)
    Duration
    08:06
    Composer
    Ernst Krenek
    Performer
    Cornelia Kallisch, Jutta Geister, Gabriele Schreckenbach, Wilfried Gahmlich, Bo Skovhus
    Ensemble
    Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
    Conductor
    Pinchas Steinberg
  12. 11 Act II Scene 4: Mir träumte, Du wolltest mich verstoßen (Eurydike, Orpheus) 04:27
    Track
    11
    Title
    Act II Scene 4: Mir träumte, Du wolltest mich verstoßen (Eurydike, Orpheus)
    Duration
    04:27
    Composer
    Ernst Krenek
    Performer
    Dunja Vejzovic, Ronald Hamilton
    Ensemble
    Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
    Conductor
    Pinchas Steinberg
  13. 12 Act II Scene 4: Als mein Gedächtnis an das obere Leben (Eurydike, Orpheus, Alle Matrosen) 10:25
    Track
    12
    Title
    Act II Scene 4: Als mein Gedächtnis an das obere Leben (Eurydike, Orpheus, Alle Matrosen)
    Duration
    10:25
    Composer
    Ernst Krenek
    Performer
    Dunja Vejzovic, Wilfried Gahmlich, Ronald Hamilton
    Ensemble
    Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
    Conductor
    Pinchas Steinberg
  14. Disc 2
  15. 1 Act III Scene 1: Also Bettler, so betrogen bin ich nun selbst (Orpheus, Landleute, Betrunkener, Weiber, Ein Krieger) 07:47
    Track
    1
    Title
    Act III Scene 1: Also Bettler, so betrogen bin ich nun selbst (Orpheus, Landleute, Betrunkener, Weiber, Ein Krieger)
    Duration
    07:47
    Composer
    Ernst Krenek
    Performer
    Bo Skovhus, Hans Franzen, Ronald Hamilton
    Ensemble
    Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
    Conductor
    Pinchas Steinberg
  16. 2 Act III Scene 2: Eurydikes Glück über dem meinigen vergaß ich (Psyche) 02:34
    Track
    2
    Title
    Act III Scene 2: Eurydikes Glück über dem meinigen vergaß ich (Psyche)
    Duration
    02:34
    Composer
    Ernst Krenek
    Performer
    Celina Lindsley
    Ensemble
    Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
    Conductor
    Pinchas Steinberg
  17. 3 Act III Scene 3: Tanzen! Tanzen! (Orpheus) 01:03
    Track
    3
    Title
    Act III Scene 3: Tanzen! Tanzen! (Orpheus)
    Duration
    01:03
    Composer
    Ernst Krenek
    Performer
    Ronald Hamilton
    Ensemble
    Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
    Conductor
    Pinchas Steinberg
  18. 4 Act III Scene 3: Es muss einen Weg geben (Geist der Eurydike, Orpheus) 08:26
    Track
    4
    Title
    Act III Scene 3: Es muss einen Weg geben (Geist der Eurydike, Orpheus)
    Duration
    08:26
    Composer
    Ernst Krenek
    Performer
    Dunja Vejzovic, Ronald Hamilton
    Ensemble
    Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
    Conductor
    Pinchas Steinberg
  19. 5 Act III Scene 3: Oh, im Feuer schwelend, versteckt sich das Gesicht? (Orpheus, Geist der Eurydike) 04:29
    Track
    5
    Title
    Act III Scene 3: Oh, im Feuer schwelend, versteckt sich das Gesicht? (Orpheus, Geist der Eurydike)
    Duration
    04:29
    Composer
    Ernst Krenek
    Performer
    Ronald Hamilton, Dunja Vejzovic
    Ensemble
    Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
    Conductor
    Pinchas Steinberg
  20. 6 Act III Scene 3: Nachspiel: Niemand hier? (Psyche, Chor der Mädchen, Chor der Burschen) 09:19
    Track
    6
    Title
    Act III Scene 3: Nachspiel: Niemand hier? (Psyche, Chor der Mädchen, Chor der Burschen)
    Duration
    09:19
    Composer
    Ernst Krenek
    Performer
    Celina Lindsley
    Ensemble
    ORF Vienna Radio Choir, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
    Conductor
    Pinchas Steinberg