Title: Der Vampyr Artist: Helmuth Froschauer Label: Capriccio Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 845221051840 Genre: Classical, Opera/Operetta Release Date: 2013-10-29 Number of Discs: 2
Something demonic and ghostly fills the air: we find ourselves in the age of Dark Romanticism, which cast it's shadow on the opera. The fateful drama is of Scottish origin, whose essence consists of inherited curses, dark, guilty entanglements and bloody props, in order to wake fatalistic shivers. Among the audience at the premiere performance of the 'Vampire' in 1828 at the Sachsisches Hoftheater in Leipzig was 15-year-old Richard Wagner. Marschner's opera crosses the path of the theatre novice many times. In 1833 the fledgling repetiteur Wagner in Wurzburg got involved in: 'However, soon the Marschner score interested me sufficiently to make it worth while to have my bitter work published. I contributed a new allegro movement to Aubry's tenor aria in Marschner's 'Vampire', which I also wrote the text to. My resulting work was demonic and effective, registering the acclaim of the audience and encouraging recognition from my brother'. Wagner could still get worked up about the 'loathsomeness of the thematic'; even Hans Pfitzner had to placatingly defend and emphasise the 'gruesomeness' of the text, the 'shivering' was the 'best part of Marschner's music'. Edgar Istel also captured his theatrical impression in creepy gothic words: 'Whoever saw how the once-bitten vampire returns to life rises up by moonlight to the sounds of Marschner's ghostly music, they will never forget this impression.'
Tracks: 1.1 Overture 1.2 Ihr Hexen Und Geister 1.3 Ha! Noch Einen Ganzen Tag! - Ha! Welche Lust 1.4 Teurer Eltern Einz'ge Freue 1.5 Wo Kann Sie Sein 1.6 Sostenuto 1.7 Heiter Lacht Die Goldne Fruhlingssonne 1.8 Du Bist's, Es Ist Kein Traum 1.9 Wie Mein Vater 1.10 Blumen Und Bluten Im Zephyrgekose 1.11 Hier, Malwina, Ist Der Mann 1.12 Der Priester Ist Bestellt 2.1 Munter, Edle Zecher, Munter, Kostlich Ist Der Wein! 2.2 Dort An Jenem Felsenhang 2.3 Sieh, Mutter, Dort Den Bleichen Mann 2.4 Ihr Wollt Mich Nur Beschamen 2.5 Wohl, Du Zwingst Mich Zum Verbrechen 2.6 Wie Ein Schoner Fruhlingsmorgen 2.7 Leise Dort Zur Fernen Laube 2.8 Im Herbst, Da Muss Man Trinken 2.9 Endlich, Alter, Find Ich Dich 2.10 Freuden Und Leiden Im Irdischen Leben 2.11 Halt Ein! Ich Kann Es Nicht Ertragen 2.12 Blumen Und Bluten Im Zephyrgekose 2.13 Haltet Ein! Ha! Nimmermehr! 2.14 Wie Nach Verderblichem Wettergetose
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