Mendelssohn / Ukigaya / Motoi - Music for Flute & Piano - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Christoph Willibald Gluck was severely annoyed. He was now 60, and still had to deal with the same annoyances he had for decades the turbulent life at the Paris Opera, for which he was always writing new stage works, the many rehearsals with petulant divas, the orchestra musicians, with whom Gluck was rarely satisfied. According to contemporary witnesses, he had to retire to the sickbed for a while due to exhaustion. Here he dreamt up a dream world an opera radically freed of ballast, without ballet, without a large chorus, with only a few performers and a greatly reduced orchestra. Gluck himself did not live to see the realization of his dream; the Neue Nürnberger Ratsmusik has now brought it to life a few singers each have to perform several roles, a narrator replaces the omitted recitatives and even some chorus numbers. Together with the slim ensemble, a prime example of focus achieved through slimming down is created.

What Carl Orff created with the Prometheus score is neither an opera in the traditional sense nor an oratorio, but also not a play with music or even InchauthenticInch classical tragedy far more is it an extremely individual musical interpretation of Aeschylus's tragedy that concentrates primarily on the symbolic imagery of the scenes, which - as Orff himself said - Inchis accentuated and visualized by the musicInch and the spectator and hearer thereby enlightened. Sung in Ancient Greek, the booklet contains a plot synopsis in English and German language plus liner notes. Album Tracks 1. Prometheus, Nach Aischylos in Altgriechischer Sprache 2. Scene One Am Rand Der Erde Sind Wir Angelangt 3. Scene Two Heiliger Äther, Leichtbeschwingte Luft 4. Scene Three Horch, Horch! Da, Da! Welcher Ton, Welcher Hauch 5. Scene Four So Bin Ich Am Ende Des Weiten Flugs 6. Scene Five Sieh, Wie Wir Dein Unheilslos, Prometheus, Beklagen 7. Scene Six Welches Land? Welcher Stamm? 8. Scene Six Ich Weiß Nicht, Wie Ich's Euch Verweigern Soll 9. Scene Seven Weise, Ja Weise War Jener 10. Scene Eight Da Seh Ich Schon Den Läufer Dieses Zeus 11. Scene Nine Nur Wankt Sie in Warheit Und Nicht Mehr Im Wort

Album Tracks 1. Liebster Jesu, Wir Sind Hier - BWV 731 (2-7) 2. Concerto in G Major - RV 312(R) Per Flautino, Archi E Basso Continuo (1-9, 11) 3. Prelude in F Major - BWV 854 (8,9) 4. Concerto in F Major - RV 442 Per Flauto, Archi E Basso Continuo (1-9) 5. Ach, Was Soll Ich Sünder Machen - BWV 770 (11,12) 6. Concerto in E minor - RV 445 Per Flautino, Archi E Basso Continuo (1-6,11,12) 7. Kommst Du Nun, Jesu, Vom Himmel Herunter Auf Erden - BWV 650 (2, 3, 5, 11) 8. Concerto in C Major - RV 444 Per Flautino, Archi E Basso Continuo (1-7, 10, 11) 9. Ich Ruf Zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ - BWV 639 (2, 5, 11) 10. Concerto in C minor - RV 441 Per Flautino, Archi E Basso Continuo (1-6, 9, 11) 11. Alle Menschen Müssen Sterben - BWV 643 (2-5) 12. Concerto in G Major - RV 443 Per Flautino, Archi E Basso Continuo (1-7,11)