Lacrimosa - Lichtjahre - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Vinyl LP pressing. Midnight Room is a record inspired by the unanchored sense of loss that follows deep heartbreak. It was produced by Chris Coady (Beach House, Future Islands), and features Morgan on vocals, guitar, synthesizers, piano, and percussion as well as La Sera's Katy Goodman on background vocals, Alex Greenwald (Phases, Phantom Planet) on bass, and Jason Boesel (Rilo Kiley, Bright Eyes) on percussion.

The Cappella musicale di Santa Maria in Campitelli, conducted by Maestro Vincenzo Di Betta, who has already been responsible for significant recording revivals such as Orazio Benevoli's InchMissa in angustia pestilentiæInch (TC600201), Bonaventura Rubino's InchMessa de' MortiInch (TC601803), and Francesco Giovannini's InchMessa à QuattroInch (TC700703), is now engaged in this new and notably interesting musical production. This rediscovery focuses on two sacred oratorios from the seventeenth century by two authors active in the Neapolitan orbit Francesco Nicolò de Rossi, a priest of Apulian origin, and Cristoforo Caresana, of Venetian origin and formerly the organist of St. Mark's Basilica. The two works - performed with the ensemble's customary expertise - are interspersed with an instrumental battle piece by Andrea Falconieri, composed in the spirit of that Baroque theatricality which is the main ingredient of these works and of the sacred musical masterpieces of the seventeenth century.

At a time when the majority of German composers turned from the opera to the singspiel and it's considerably smaller dimensions, Franz Lachner continued the tradition of the grand historical opera with Catharina Cornaro. Lachner's once so very successful opera, last performed in Munich in 1903, was forgotten for many decades, but a few years ago the editor Volker Tosta of Stuttgart prepared a new edition of this work, it's first published version, especially for the concert performance by the Munich Radio Orchestra. The action of the tragic opera is based on the true-life story of the Queen of Cyprus. Political intrigues and great passions distinguish the plot. It is difficult to believe that this musically so very appealing work, which captivated the audience at Munich's Prince Regent Theater already with it's highly atmospheric overture during the performance on which this album is based, ever could be forgotten. InchWith this opera the German school has been enriched with a dramatic work that has to be counted as one of the most genial and magnificent of the works belonging to it.Inch This is what the Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung wrote after the premiere, and Max Zenger's Geschichte der Münchner Oper of 1923 documents the pathbreaking effect of this opera when it states that Catharina Cornaro had Inchquite literally become Munich's hallmark, like the two towers of the Cathedral of Our Lady.Inch