Zemlinsky: Der Kreidekreis
Renate Behle, Roland Hermann, Reiner Goldberg, Siegfried Lorenz & Celina Lindsley
Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Stefan Soltesz
Zemlinsky's penultimate opera is surprisingly austere. Strong performances, but the lack of text and translations is disappointing as there's much spoken dialogue.
Zemlinsky: Der Kreidekreis
Renate Behle, Roland Hermann, Reiner Goldberg, Siegfried Lorenz & Celina Lindsley
Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Stefan Soltesz
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Zemlinsky's penultimate opera is surprisingly austere. Strong performances, but the lack of text and translations is disappointing as there's much spoken dialogue.
About
Der Kreidekreis was composed in 1931/32, and was the then 61-year old Zemlinsky’s seventh and last completed opera.
The story is a blend of fairy-tale Utopia, social criticism and inwardness, all of which make themselves felt in Zemlinsky’s music which seeks to combine varied stylistic components.
Contents and tracklist
- Renate Behle, Gabriele Schreckenbach, Roland Hermann, Siegfried Lorenz, Celina Lindsley, Reiner Goldberg, Uwe Peter, Hans Helm, Gertrud Ottenthal, Kaja Borris, Gidon Saks, Warren Mok, Bengt-Ola Morgny, Peter Matić, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin and St, Gertrud Ottenthal, Peter Matić, Bengt-Ola Morgny, Warren Mok, Gidon Saks, Kaja Borris, Hans Helm, Uwe Peter, Reiner Goldberg, Celina Lindsley, Siegfried Lorenz, Roland Hermann, Gabriele Schreckenbach, Renate Behle
- Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
- Stefan Soltesz
- Renate Behle, Gabriele Schreckenbach, Roland Hermann, Siegfried Lorenz, Celina Lindsley, Reiner Goldberg, Uwe Peter, Hans Helm, Gertrud Ottenthal, Kaja Borris, Gidon Saks, Warren Mok, Bengt-Ola Morgny, Peter Matić, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin and St, Gertrud Ottenthal, Peter Matić, Bengt-Ola Morgny, Warren Mok, Gidon Saks, Kaja Borris, Hans Helm, Uwe Peter, Reiner Goldberg, Celina Lindsley, Siegfried Lorenz, Roland Hermann, Gabriele Schreckenbach, Renate Behle
- Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
- Stefan Soltesz
- Renate Behle, Gabriele Schreckenbach, Roland Hermann, Siegfried Lorenz, Celina Lindsley, Reiner Goldberg, Uwe Peter, Hans Helm, Gertrud Ottenthal, Kaja Borris, Gidon Saks, Warren Mok, Bengt-Ola Morgny, Peter Matić, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin and St, Gertrud Ottenthal, Peter Matić, Bengt-Ola Morgny, Warren Mok, Gidon Saks, Kaja Borris, Hans Helm, Uwe Peter, Reiner Goldberg, Celina Lindsley, Siegfried Lorenz, Roland Hermann, Gabriele Schreckenbach, Renate Behle
- Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
- Stefan Soltesz
Awards and reviews
February 2014
Zemlinsky's penultimate opera is surprisingly austere. Strong performances, but the lack of text and translations is disappointing as there's much spoken dialogue.
Opera Now
it’s a fascinating score, superbly orchestrated with more than a nod to the dance and jazz idioms of the day and some exotic Chinese scoring, but despite Stefan Soltész’s rhythmic conducting and the spiciness that the Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin brings to the recording it doesn’t hold interest.
