Release Date: 29 April 2022
Label: ECM New Series
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 028948563227
Release Date: 29 April 2022
Label: ECM New Series
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 028948563227
Description
Heinz Holliger's "dream opera" Lunea which was premiered, to great acclaim, at Opernhaus Zurich, interweaves strands from the life and mind of Nikolaus Franz Niembsch (1802-1850), the Hungarian-born Austrian poet who wrote under the name Nikolaus Lenau.
Lenau's last, fragmentary writings have fired Holliger's imagination and led to the creation of an intricately inventive work with a marvellously evocative lead role for baritone Christian Gerhaher. Neue Zürcher Zeitung: "Here Gerhaher can display his full sensitivity in dealing with the finest nuances of language and bring to bear his almost unlimited spectrum of tonal-dynamic gradations in the intonation. The poet Lenau speaks most directly from the sounds and notes..."
The 2-CD set, in slipcase, is accompanied by an an extensive 120 page German-English booklet with the full libretto by Händl Klaus and synopses of each of the opera's 23 scenes, as well as a liner essay by Roman Brotbeck, a performer's note by Christian Gerhaher, score fragments, performance photography, and more.
Heinz Holliger: conductor, composer
Christian Gerhaher: baritone
Juliane Banse: soprano
Ivan Ludlow: baritone
Sarah Maria Sun: soprano
Annette Schönmüller: soprano
Philharmonia Zürich
Basler Madrigalisten
Press:
"An immensely imaginative opera, full of very beautiful, fragile music." - **** The Guardian
Tracklisting
Anna Gourari, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana & Markus Poschner
Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica & Vida Mikneviciute
Arvo Part
Thomas Larcher
John Holloway Ensemble
Heinz Holliger & Anton Kernjak
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra & Tonu Kaljuste
Karlheinz Stockhausen Michaels Reise
Heinz Holliger, Anita Leuzinger & Anton Kernjak
Jurg Dahler, Musikkollgium Winterthur
Collegium Novum Zurich, Heinz Holliger, Sarah Wegener, Johannes Nied, SWR Experimentalstudio, Luisa Famos, Annina Pinggera
I Musici, Frans Bruggen, Heinz Holliger, Felix Ayo
Heinz Holliger, Camerata Bern & Erich Höbarth
Peter Maag; Various Orchestras
Heinz Holliger, SWR Vokalensemble & Sinfonieorchester des SWR