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

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Composer
WAGNER, SIEGFRIED
Artist
Nur, Soloists
Format
CD
Label
Marco Polo
Released
May 29, 2007
Catalog #
8225329-31
UPC
636943532928

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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

Tracklist 22 tracks

  1. Disc 1
  2. 1 Act I: Introduction 02:41
    Track
    1
    Title
    Act I: Introduction
    Duration
    02:41
    Composer
    Siegfried Wagner
    Ensemble
    Nürnberger Symphoniker
    Conductor
    Frank Strobel
  3. 2 Act I Scene 1: Fort von hier! mussige Schaar! (Seelchen, Verena, Ekhart) 05:43
    Track
    2
    Title
    Act I Scene 1: Fort von hier! mussige Schaar! (Seelchen, Verena, Ekhart)
    Duration
    05:43
    Composer
    Siegfried Wagner
    Performer
    Rebecca Broberg, Andreas Mitschke, Young Jae Park
    Ensemble
    Nürnberger Symphoniker
    Conductor
    Frank Strobel
  4. 3 Act I Scene 2: Madchen! Wach auf! Ist das Dein Bett? (Ekhart, Verena) 09:53
    Track
    3
    Title
    Act I Scene 2: Madchen! Wach auf! Ist das Dein Bett? (Ekhart, Verena)
    Duration
    09:53
    Composer
    Siegfried Wagner
    Performer
    Rebecca Broberg, Andreas Mitschke
    Ensemble
    Nürnberger Symphoniker
    Conductor
    Frank Strobel
  5. 4 Act I Scene 3: Ei, ei! Das lob' ich mal mir! (Gertrud, Ekhart, Verena) 02:33
    Track
    4
    Title
    Act I Scene 3: Ei, ei! Das lob' ich mal mir! (Gertrud, Ekhart, Verena)
    Duration
    02:33
    Composer
    Siegfried Wagner
    Performer
    Rebecca Broberg, Regina Mauel, Andreas Mitschke
    Ensemble
    Nürnberger Symphoniker
    Conductor
    Frank Strobel
  6. 5 Act I Scene 4: Bist auch mal wieder da? (Gertrud, Ekhart) 05:16
    Track
    5
    Title
    Act I Scene 4: Bist auch mal wieder da? (Gertrud, Ekhart)
    Duration
    05:16
    Composer
    Siegfried Wagner
    Performer
    Regina Mauel, Andreas Mitschke
    Ensemble
    Nürnberger Symphoniker
    Conductor
    Frank Strobel
  7. 6 Act I Scene 5: Weh', Luftchen, weh' (Friedrich, Gertrud, Verena) 10:16
    Track
    6
    Title
    Act I Scene 5: Weh', Luftchen, weh' (Friedrich, Gertrud, Verena)
    Duration
    10:16
    Composer
    Siegfried Wagner
    Performer
    Rebecca Broberg, Volker Horn, Regina Mauel
    Ensemble
    Nürnberger Symphoniker
    Conductor
    Frank Strobel
  8. 7 Act I Scene 6: Ja! Munter und froh auf die Lebensleiter Zes! (Fink, Trutz, Kummel, Friedrich, Gertrud, Dorfleute, Ein Madchen, Verena) 18:20
    Track
    7
    Title
    Act I Scene 6: Ja! Munter und froh auf die Lebensleiter Zes! (Fink, Trutz, Kummel, Friedrich, Gertrud, Dorfleute, Ein Madchen, Verena)
    Duration
    18:20
    Composer
    Siegfried Wagner
    Performer
    Johannes Fottinger, Achim Hoffmann, Philipp Meierhofer
    Ensemble
    Munich PPP Music Theatre Chorus, Nürnberger Symphoniker
    Conductor
    Frank Strobel
  9. 8 Act I Scene 7: Lausch'! Wie? Waren Sie's? (Kummel, Fink, Trutz, Dorfleute, Grafin, Geck, Jeanette, Graf, Verena, Gertrud) 11:47
    Track
    8
    Title
    Act I Scene 7: Lausch'! Wie? Waren Sie's? (Kummel, Fink, Trutz, Dorfleute, Grafin, Geck, Jeanette, Graf, Verena, Gertrud)
    Duration
    11:47
    Composer
    Siegfried Wagner
    Performer
    Johannes Fottinger, Achim Hoffmann, Philipp Meierhofer
    Ensemble
    Munich PPP Music Theatre Chorus, Nürnberger Symphoniker
    Conductor
    Frank Strobel
  10. 9 Act I Scene 8: Hort! Jetzt geht's los! Passt auf! (Dorfleute, Trutz, Fink, Kummel, Verena) 05:28
    Track
    9
    Title
    Act I Scene 8: Hort! Jetzt geht's los! Passt auf! (Dorfleute, Trutz, Fink, Kummel, Verena)
    Duration
    05:28
    Composer
    Siegfried Wagner
    Performer
    Johannes Fottinger, Achim Hoffmann, Philipp Meierhofer
    Ensemble
    Munich PPP Music Theatre Chorus, Nürnberger Symphoniker
    Conductor
    Frank Strobel
  11. Disc 2
  12. 1 Act II: Introduction 02:53
    Track
    1
    Title
    Act II: Introduction
    Duration
    02:53
    Composer
    Siegfried Wagner
    Ensemble
    Nürnberger Symphoniker
    Conductor
    Frank Strobel
  13. 2 Act II Scene 1: Schnell doch! Hier fehlt's noch! (Jeanette, Jean, Fink, Kummel, Trutz, Friedrich) 04:54
    Track
    2
    Title
    Act II Scene 1: Schnell doch! Hier fehlt's noch! (Jeanette, Jean, Fink, Kummel, Trutz, Friedrich)
    Duration
    04:54
    Composer
    Siegfried Wagner
    Performer
    Marco Bappert, Johannes Fottinger, Ksenija Lukic, Philipp Meierhofer
    Ensemble
    Nürnberger Symphoniker
    Conductor
    Frank Strobel
  14. 3 Act II Scene 2: Still! Vielbesung'nes Sonnen Erwachen! (Jeanette, Graf, Grafin) 05:08
    Track
    3
    Title
    Act II Scene 2: Still! Vielbesung'nes Sonnen Erwachen! (Jeanette, Graf, Grafin)
    Duration
    05:08
    Composer
    Siegfried Wagner
    Performer
    Martina Borst, Nicholas Isherwood, Ksenija Lukic
    Ensemble
    Nürnberger Symphoniker
    Conductor
    Frank Strobel
  15. 4 Act II Scene 3: Die Gaste! Um Nachsicht lasst die Grafin bitten (Jeanette, Graf, Trutz, Eukaleia, Satyros, Faun, Eros, Heliodoros,…) 17:12
    Track
    4
    Title
    Act II Scene 3: Die Gaste! Um Nachsicht lasst die Grafin bitten (Jeanette, Graf, Trutz, Eukaleia, Satyros, Faun, Eros, Heliodoros,…)
    Duration
    17:12
    Composer
    Siegfried Wagner
    Performer
    Martina Borst, Achim Hoffmann, Nicholas Isherwood, Ksenija Lukic
    Ensemble
    Nürnberger Symphoniker
    Conductor
    Frank Strobel
  16. 5 Act II Scene 4: Traum' ich wieder? Ist alles nur Trug? (Verena) 04:11
    Track
    5
    Title
    Act II Scene 4: Traum' ich wieder? Ist alles nur Trug? (Verena)
    Duration
    04:11
    Composer
    Siegfried Wagner
    Performer
    Rebecca Broberg
    Ensemble
    Nürnberger Symphoniker
    Conductor
    Frank Strobel
  17. 6 Act II Scene 5: Nun? Mein Veilchen? Noch immer allein? (Graf, Verena) 11:23
    Track
    6
    Title
    Act II Scene 5: Nun? Mein Veilchen? Noch immer allein? (Graf, Verena)
    Duration
    11:23
    Composer
    Siegfried Wagner
    Performer
    Rebecca Broberg, Nicholas Isherwood
    Ensemble
    Nürnberger Symphoniker
    Conductor
    Frank Strobel
  18. 7 Act II Scene 6: Mir war's doch so, als hort' ich Stimmen! (Trutz, Verena) 04:18
    Track
    7
    Title
    Act II Scene 6: Mir war's doch so, als hort' ich Stimmen! (Trutz, Verena)
    Duration
    04:18
    Composer
    Siegfried Wagner
    Performer
    Rebecca Broberg, Achim Hoffmann
    Ensemble
    Nürnberger Symphoniker
    Conductor
    Frank Strobel
  19. 8 Act II Scene 7: Aha! Laubdunkelparchen! Liebestraummarchen! (Jeanette, Grafin, Friedrich) 12:59
    Track
    8
    Title
    Act II Scene 7: Aha! Laubdunkelparchen! Liebestraummarchen! (Jeanette, Grafin, Friedrich)
    Duration
    12:59
    Composer
    Siegfried Wagner
    Performer
    Martina Borst, Volker Horn, Ksenija Lukic
    Ensemble
    Nürnberger Symphoniker
    Conductor
    Frank Strobel
  20. 9 Act II Scene 8: Helft! Lasst ihn nicht enteilen! (Grafin, Dorfleute, Trutz, Friedrich, Jeanette, Graf, Fink, Kummel, Die Kobolde,…) 08:05
    Track
    9
    Title
    Act II Scene 8: Helft! Lasst ihn nicht enteilen! (Grafin, Dorfleute, Trutz, Friedrich, Jeanette, Graf, Fink, Kummel, Die Kobolde,…)
    Duration
    08:05
    Composer
    Siegfried Wagner
    Performer
    Martina Borst, Achim Hoffmann
    Ensemble
    Furth Heinrich-Schliemann-Gymnasiums Children's Chorus, Munich PPP Music Theatre Chorus, Nürnberger Symphoniker
    Conductor
    Frank Strobel
  21. Disc 3
  22. 1 Act III: Introduction 04:33
    Track
    1
    Title
    Act III: Introduction
    Duration
    04:33
    Composer
    Siegfried Wagner
    Ensemble
    Nürnberger Symphoniker
    Conductor
    Frank Strobel
  23. 2 Act III Scene 1: Dort ruh' ein Weilchen! (Ekhart, Verena) 19:49
    Track
    2
    Title
    Act III Scene 1: Dort ruh' ein Weilchen! (Ekhart, Verena)
    Duration
    19:49
    Composer
    Siegfried Wagner
    Performer
    Rebecca Broberg, Andreas Mitschke
    Ensemble
    Nürnberger Symphoniker
    Conductor
    Frank Strobel
  24. 3 Act III Scene 2: Potz Wetter, Blitz und Donner! Wir sind verirrt! (Knorz, Ekhart, Verena) 10:35
    Track
    3
    Title
    Act III Scene 2: Potz Wetter, Blitz und Donner! Wir sind verirrt! (Knorz, Ekhart, Verena)
    Duration
    10:35
    Composer
    Siegfried Wagner
    Performer
    Rebecca Broberg, Joachim Höchbauer, Andreas Mitschke
    Ensemble
    Nürnberger Symphoniker
    Conductor
    Frank Strobel
  25. 4 Act III Scene 3: Saladin hat siebzehn Sohne (Fink, Trutz, Kummel, Kathe, Friedrich, Verena, Knorz, Die Kobolde) 17:30
    Track
    4
    Title
    Act III Scene 3: Saladin hat siebzehn Sohne (Fink, Trutz, Kummel, Kathe, Friedrich, Verena, Knorz, Die Kobolde)
    Duration
    17:30
    Composer
    Siegfried Wagner
    Performer
    Johannes Fottinger, Achim Hoffmann, Heike Kohler, Philipp Meierhofer
    Ensemble
    Nürnberger Symphoniker
    Conductor
    Frank Strobel