Detailed Information

  • Artist: Kenny, Montague, Tomlinson, London PO, Parry
  • Label: Chandos , DDD, 98
  • Order number: 9809875
  • Release date: 4.6.1999

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Der Rosenkavalier (Oper in 3 Akten) (Querschnitt)

  1. 1 Introduction Start
  2. 2 How you were! How you are! (1. Akt) Start
  3. 3 Ah, there he goes Start
  4. 4 Ah! You are back again? Start
  5. 5 For time is a mysterious thing Start
  6. 6 My dearest love, why do you torture yourself Start
  7. 7 I'll go now, go to church, and pray Start
  8. 8 Introduction - A solemn day, a wondrous day (2. Akt) Start
  9. 9 In this most wonderful and serious moment Start
  10. 10 It is an honour, an enchantment Start
  11. 11 Here I am Start
  12. 12 Here Start
  13. 13 Leupold, let's go (3. Akt) Start
  14. 14 Oh God! The story was a masquerade and no more Start
  15. 15 Now or tomorrow; of not tomorrow, very soon Start
  16. 16 Marie Theres, how good you are Start
  17. 17 Bliss is too deep to understand Start
  18. 18 Bliss is too deep to understand Start

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Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier (Highlights)

Conventional wisdom has it that after the revolutionary, avant-garde scores of Salome or Elektra, Richard Strauss gave up the innovatory struggle and took an easier road to success with Der Rosenkavalier . Nothing could be further from the truth. While the new work was certainly not as aggressive or, for its day, as dissonant as its two predecessors, it was equally ground-breaking in its own, more appealing way. In no operatic work that preceded it had composer and librettist written such an obviously conversational piece in which the text, perhaps Hofmannsthal’s masterpiece in the genre, is absolutely on a par with the music, so the twin creators had invented virtually a new genre of musical play.

It was Hofmannsthal who suggested the subject of Der Rosenkavalier, a comedy set in Vienna in Maria Theresa’s time, but an unrealistic fairy-story Vienna, where wit and elegance redeemed anything and all could be forgiven provided it was done with style. From its first performance Der Rosenkavalier was a success, and has been performed more than any other German opera written in the twentieth century.

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…a highly enjoyable addition
Classic CD

Press comments

C. Wildhagen in FonoForum 11 / 99: "Lohnend erscheint diese CD vor allem wegen des komödiantischen Feinsinns, mit dem John Tomlinson, unterstützt durch die Übersetzung, dem Ochs alles Aufgesetzt-Wienerische und Trampelhafte austreibt: Selten wurde die von Hofmannsthal intendierte Nähe dieser Figur von Verdis Falstaff so deutlich wie hier."

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