Siegfried Wagner: Der Kobold / Strobel, Broberg, Horn, Et Al

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Label
Marco Polo
Release Date
May 29, 2007
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      WAGNER, SIEGFRIED
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Children'S Chorus Heinrich Schliemann-Gymnasium Fuerth
    • PERFORMER
      Nur, Soloists
    Product Details ⌄
    Works ⌄

    1. Act I: Introduction

      Composer: Siegfried Wagner

      Ensemble: Nürnberger Symphoniker

      Conductor: Frank Strobel

    2. Act I Scene 1: Fort von hier! mussige Schaar! (Seelchen, Verena, Ekhart)

      Composer: Siegfried Wagner

      Ensemble: Nürnberger Symphoniker

      Performer: Rebecca Broberg, Andreas Mitschke, Young Jae Park

      Conductor: Frank Strobel

    3. Act I Scene 2: Madchen! Wach auf! Ist das Dein Bett? (Ekhart, Verena)

      Composer: Siegfried Wagner

      Ensemble: Nürnberger Symphoniker

      Performer: Rebecca Broberg, Andreas Mitschke

      Conductor: Frank Strobel

    4. Act I Scene 3: Ei, ei! Das lob' ich mal mir! (Gertrud, Ekhart, Verena)

      Composer: Siegfried Wagner

      Ensemble: Nürnberger Symphoniker

      Performer: Rebecca Broberg, Regina Mauel, Andreas Mitschke

      Conductor: Frank Strobel

    5. Act I Scene 4: Bist auch mal wieder da? (Gertrud, Ekhart)

      Composer: Siegfried Wagner

      Ensemble: Nürnberger Symphoniker

      Performer: Regina Mauel, Andreas Mitschke

      Conductor: Frank Strobel

    6. Act I Scene 5: Weh', Luftchen, weh' (Friedrich, Gertrud, Verena)

      Composer: Siegfried Wagner

      Ensemble: Nürnberger Symphoniker

      Performer: Rebecca Broberg, Volker Horn, Regina Mauel

      Conductor: Frank Strobel

    7. Act I Scene 6: Ja! Munter und froh auf die Lebensleiter Zes! (Fink, Trutz, Kummel, Friedrich, Gertrud, Dorfleute, Ein Madchen, Verena)

      Composer: Siegfried Wagner

      Ensemble: Munich PPP Music Theatre Chorus, Nürnberger Symphoniker

      Performer: Johannes Fottinger, Achim Hoffmann, Philipp Meierhofer

      Conductor: Frank Strobel

    8. Act I Scene 7: Lausch'! Wie? Waren Sie's? (Kummel, Fink, Trutz, Dorfleute, Grafin, Geck, Jeanette, Graf, Verena, Gertrud)

      Composer: Siegfried Wagner

      Ensemble: Munich PPP Music Theatre Chorus, Nürnberger Symphoniker

      Performer: Johannes Fottinger, Achim Hoffmann, Philipp Meierhofer

      Conductor: Frank Strobel

    9. Act I Scene 8: Hort! Jetzt geht's los! Passt auf! (Dorfleute, Trutz, Fink, Kummel, Verena)

      Composer: Siegfried Wagner

      Ensemble: Munich PPP Music Theatre Chorus, Nürnberger Symphoniker

      Performer: Johannes Fottinger, Achim Hoffmann, Philipp Meierhofer

      Conductor: Frank Strobel

    10. Act II: Introduction

      Composer: Siegfried Wagner

      Ensemble: Nürnberger Symphoniker

      Conductor: Frank Strobel

    11. Act II Scene 1: Schnell doch! Hier fehlt's noch! (Jeanette, Jean, Fink, Kummel, Trutz, Friedrich)

      Composer: Siegfried Wagner

      Ensemble: Nürnberger Symphoniker

      Performer: Marco Bappert, Johannes Fottinger, Ksenija Lukic, Philipp Meierhofer

      Conductor: Frank Strobel

    12. Act II Scene 2: Still! Vielbesung'nes Sonnen Erwachen! (Jeanette, Graf, Grafin)

      Composer: Siegfried Wagner

      Ensemble: Nürnberger Symphoniker

      Performer: Martina Borst, Nicholas Isherwood, Ksenija Lukic

      Conductor: Frank Strobel

    13. Act II Scene 3: Die Gaste! Um Nachsicht lasst die Grafin bitten (Jeanette, Graf, Trutz, Eukaleia, Satyros, Faun, Eros, Heliodoros,…)

      Composer: Siegfried Wagner

      Ensemble: Nürnberger Symphoniker

      Performer: Martina Borst, Achim Hoffmann, Nicholas Isherwood, Ksenija Lukic

      Conductor: Frank Strobel

    14. Act II Scene 4: Traum' ich wieder? Ist alles nur Trug? (Verena)

      Composer: Siegfried Wagner

      Ensemble: Nürnberger Symphoniker

      Performer: Rebecca Broberg

      Conductor: Frank Strobel

    15. Act II Scene 5: Nun? Mein Veilchen? Noch immer allein? (Graf, Verena)

      Composer: Siegfried Wagner

      Ensemble: Nürnberger Symphoniker

      Performer: Rebecca Broberg, Nicholas Isherwood

      Conductor: Frank Strobel

    16. Act II Scene 6: Mir war's doch so, als hort' ich Stimmen! (Trutz, Verena)

      Composer: Siegfried Wagner

      Ensemble: Nürnberger Symphoniker

      Performer: Rebecca Broberg, Achim Hoffmann

      Conductor: Frank Strobel

    17. Act II Scene 7: Aha! Laubdunkelparchen! Liebestraummarchen! (Jeanette, Grafin, Friedrich)

      Composer: Siegfried Wagner

      Ensemble: Nürnberger Symphoniker

      Performer: Martina Borst, Volker Horn, Ksenija Lukic

      Conductor: Frank Strobel

    18. Act II Scene 8: Helft! Lasst ihn nicht enteilen! (Grafin, Dorfleute, Trutz, Friedrich, Jeanette, Graf, Fink, Kummel, Die Kobolde,…)

      Composer: Siegfried Wagner

      Ensemble: Furth Heinrich-Schliemann-Gymnasiums Children's Chorus, Munich PPP Music Theatre Chorus, Nürnberger Symphoniker

      Performer: Martina Borst, Achim Hoffmann

      Conductor: Frank Strobel

    19. Act III: Introduction

      Composer: Siegfried Wagner

      Ensemble: Nürnberger Symphoniker

      Conductor: Frank Strobel

    20. Act III Scene 1: Dort ruh' ein Weilchen! (Ekhart, Verena)

      Composer: Siegfried Wagner

      Ensemble: Nürnberger Symphoniker

      Performer: Rebecca Broberg, Andreas Mitschke

      Conductor: Frank Strobel

    21. Act III Scene 2: Potz Wetter, Blitz und Donner! Wir sind verirrt! (Knorz, Ekhart, Verena)

      Composer: Siegfried Wagner

      Ensemble: Nürnberger Symphoniker

      Performer: Rebecca Broberg, Joachim Höchbauer, Andreas Mitschke

      Conductor: Frank Strobel

    22. Act III Scene 3: Saladin hat siebzehn Sohne (Fink, Trutz, Kummel, Kathe, Friedrich, Verena, Knorz, Die Kobolde)

      Composer: Siegfried Wagner

      Ensemble: Nürnberger Symphoniker

      Performer: Johannes Fottinger, Achim Hoffmann, Heike Kohler, Philipp Meierhofer

      Conductor: Frank Strobel




S. WAGNER Der Kobold • Frank Strobel, cond; Rebecca Broberg ( Verena ); Regina Mauel ( Gertrud ); Andreas Mitschke ( Ekhart ); Achim Hoffmann ( Trutz ); Johannes Föttinger ( Fink ); Philipp Meierhöfer ( Kümmel ); Volker Horn ( Friedrich ); Nicholas Isherwood ( Der Graf ); Martina Borst ( Die Gräfin ); Ksenija Lukic ( Jeannette ); Marco Bappert ( Jean ); Joachim Höchbauer ( Knorz ); Heike Kohler ( Käthe ); Young Jae Park ( Seelchen ); PPP Music Theatre Ens; Nuremberg SO • Marco Polo 8.225329 (3 CDs: 195:27)


Each time I listen to this recording of The Goblin , I am utterly unnerved—do not be fooled by the descending flute figures that cue the overture, like Pan himself coming down to bless the land. Obviously, there is no shortage of warped and twisted librettos, which tend to serve as jumping off points for music yet more warped and twisted, but my goodness, our man Siegfried was exorcising some personal demons with this work—ironically, by enlivening some.


The first “sung” note, once the gentle, autumnal instrumental opening has concluded, is a scream, one that comes through on the recording like a spike—no reverb, no vibrato, just fear, hammered home. We are dealing with a dramatis personae of goblins (including one whose entrance into the world comes courtesy of a mixture of a hanged man’s seed and the yellow grass below), a wizard, some assassins, night phantoms, a few satyrs, a circus collective, a rapist, and such cheery pursuits as infanticide, abortion, flesh trading, and prestidigitation for, shall we say, less than salubrious ends. Good luck sorting out the plot, which is about as close to postmodernism as Siegfried ever got, and features an opera within the opera, and a climax not dissimilar to F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu , which had the subtitle, intriguingly enough, of “A Symphony of Horrors.”


The quality of the recording itself will jar you, but that’s part of its effectiveness—weapons crash to the ground as though they’ve landed on microphones, or like something is kicking inside the speakers and trying to get out. It’s a fascinating, weird kind of audio-vérité, that further unsettles the nerves; but distortion was Siegfried’s ally in the creation of this work, and some passages even appear, at first, to be atonal. Rebecca Broberg as Verena, the opera’s heroine—a default designation, really, in this case, given her successive and ultimately defeating tragedies—is really stretched on the rack in her exceedingly taxing role, and it is through her vocal lines that we experience whatever empathy—which often takes the forms of anxiety and fear—the opera has to offer. It’s been remarked that for all of its fantastical elements, Der Kobold is something of a gangster story, but the noir -ish element becomes almost hallucinatory in the constant churn of crises, a vortex of demonism, you might say—of both the supernatural and human variety, the latter, of course, always being worse. Cpo has a Siegfried Wagner sampler disc with the West German Radio Symphony Orchestra and Roman Trekel handling an excerpt, but for the whole, vivid nightmare, you’ll need this set to be properly shocked and disturbed. And for those who cherish their illusions of childhood, there is perhaps no 20th-century opera that poses such a menacing threat to any and all forms of latency.


FANFARE: Colin Fleming