K A Hartmann - Des Simplicius Simplicissimus Jugend
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Label: BR Klassik
Cat No: 403571900301
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 26th October 2009
Contents
Artists
Camilla NylundChristian Gerhaher
Will Hartmann
Michael Volle
Die Singphoniker
Munchner Rundfunkorchester
Conductor
Ulf SchirmerArtists
Camilla NylundChristian Gerhaher
Will Hartmann
Michael Volle
Die Singphoniker
Munchner Rundfunkorchester
Conductor
Ulf SchirmerAbout
Besides the Münchner Rundfunkorchester under Ulf Schirmer, the performance had the good fortune of featuring a first-rate quartet of soloists including Christian Gerhaher, Will Hartmann, Camilla Nylund and Michael Volle.
With this release, Simplicius Simplicissimus is now available in an exemplary recorded production, both editorially and musically. While Hartmann described his work as an “opera”, he avoided “stock operatic gestures” in the shaping of his musical language – it seems more likely to have been based on the style of Stravinsky’s 'L’histoire du soldat'.
The style of the work is directly related to the historical context of its composition: the original version was composed in 1934-1936 on the suggestion of Hermann Scherchen, who had lived in Swiss exile since 1933. The plot follows the destiny of a person threatened with the loss of himself and his world in the maelstrom of the Thirty Years War. Hartmann confronts this period with harsh refractions, nameless sorrow and biting satire.
He dedicated the overture, composed in 1939, to Sergei Prokofiev, whose music embodied the style of the international avant-garde decried by the Nazis. Hartmann’s feelings when he set to work on the revision (1955/56) following World War II would be hard to describe!
Cast:
- Camilla Nylund (Simplicius)
- Christian Gerhaher (Farm Worker/Narrator)
- Will Hartmann (Hermit/Governor)
- Michael Volle (Farmer/Sergeant)
Bonus: Bernhard Neuhoff in conversation with Wilfried Hiller and Ulf Schirmer, with sound documents from Karl Amadeus and Elisabeth Hartmann.
Outstanding recordings of music performed by the three Bayerischer Rundfunk (Bavarian Broadcasting) ensembles are now offered to music lovers on the new label BR-Klassik. The Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, the Münchner Rundfunkorchester and the Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks – the three BR ensembles - enjoy an extraordinary reputation, both regionally and internationally, for their quality, artistic creativity and their communication of classical music. Outstanding concerts, especially successful interpretations and rarely heard works are being documented on this new label.
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