Strauss, R: Elektra
Eva Marton (Elektra), Marjana Lipovsek (Klytämnestra), Bernd Weikl (Oreste), Hermann Winkle (Aegisth), Kurt Moll (Orest's Tutor), Daphne Evangelatos, Shirley Close, Birgit Calm, Julie Faulkner, Caroline Maria Petrig (Maids)
Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Wolfgang Sawallisch
The women are particularly good: Eva Marton's heavy duty soprano especially rich in lower colours in the title role; Cheryl Studer's Chrysothemis light and fluttery; and Marjana Lipovsek's Klytämnestra...
Strauss, R: Elektra
Eva Marton (Elektra), Marjana Lipovsek (Klytämnestra), Bernd Weikl (Oreste), Hermann Winkle (Aegisth), Kurt Moll (Orest's Tutor), Daphne Evangelatos, Shirley Close, Birgit Calm, Julie Faulkner, Caroline Maria Petrig (Maids)
Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Wolfgang Sawallisch
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The women are particularly good: Eva Marton's heavy duty soprano especially rich in lower colours in the title role; Cheryl Studer's Chrysothemis light and fluttery; and Marjana Lipovsek's Klytämnestra...
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The mid-price collection presents some of the most important and admired recordings of the EMI Classics and Virgin Classics catalogue which make EMI - The Home of Opera.
Bonus Disc contains synopsis and libretto with translation.
Contents and tracklist
- Daphne Evangelatos/Shirley Close/Birgit Calm/Julie Faulkner/Orchester der Bayerischen Staatsoper München/Wolfgang Sawallisch, Birgit Calm (mezzo-soprano), Daphne Evangelatos (mezzo-soprano), Julie Faulkner (soprano), Shirley Close (mezzo-soprano), Caroline Maria Petrig (soprano), Éva Marton (soprano), Cheryl Studer (soprano), Dorothea Geipel (mezzo-soprano), Marjana Lipovsek (soprano), Victoria Wheeler (mezzo-soprano), Alfred Kuhn (tenor), Ulrich Ress (tenor), Bernd Weikl (bass-baritone), Kurt Moll (bass), Hermann Winkler (tenor)
- Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
- Wolfgang Sawallisch
- Recorded: 1990-01-10
- Recording Venue: 2-10 January 1990, Herkulessaal, Munich
Awards and reviews
February 2011
The women are particularly good: Eva Marton's heavy duty soprano especially rich in lower colours in the title role; Cheryl Studer's Chrysothemis light and fluttery; and Marjana Lipovsek's Klytämnestra magnificently baleful.
January 2011
Marton's devastating portrayal of the crazed, obsessive Elektra was a riveting experience in the theatre and her complete involvement in the role comes across with comparable immediacy here - the blood runs cold on several occasions...Lipovsek's Klytämnestra is superb: a frighteningly credible depiction of delusion and hate...A formidable success from every point of view
