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Eötvös: Paradise Reloaded (Lilith)

Hungarian Radio Symphonic Orchestra, Gregory Vajda

This recording with the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the excellent Gregory Vajda, is committed and precise. Soloist performances are strong all round, with Rebecca Nelsen’s...

Eötvös: Paradise Reloaded (Lilith)

Hungarian Radio Symphonic Orchestra, Gregory Vajda

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This recording with the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the excellent Gregory Vajda, is committed and precise. Soloist performances are strong all round, with Rebecca Nelsen’s...

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Following the 2010 Munich world première of his opera, The Tragedy of the Devil, Péter Eötvös decided to make some revisions to it. Though following the plot of the original piece, written by the young German playwright Albert Ostermaier, there are some key points where the new material completes or even reconsiders the original one. The resultant piece became effectively a new work in its own right, and was given the title Paradise Reloaded. While in the original play the main protagonist is Lucifer, but for Paradise Reloaded the spotlight falls on to a different character, Lilith, the first wife of Adam. In this new piece, Péter Eötvös explores the hypothetical question: what would have happened if our culture which is explicitly based on the Bible had chosen Lilith to be the ancestress of mankind, instead of Eve? The opera was premièred October 2013 in Vienna, followed by its February 2014 Hungarian première in Budapest. The cast of soloist on the present CD, recorded in the studio of the Hungarian Radio after the Budapest performance, is the same as of the première in Vienna.

Contents and tracklist

I. Lucifer, 3 Angels, Lilith
Track length11:22
II. In the Paradise - The Fall
Track length11:37
III. Eve and Adam as Migrants
Track length11:21
IV. Adam as a General, Demonstration
Track length5:23
V. Ballad. A Bombed out City
Track length9:21
VI. Future
Track length7:22
VII. Adam Wants to Leave the Earth
Track length4:53
VIII. Lilith, Lucifer
Track length5:16
IX. Desert
Track length7:15
X. Thirst. Lilith's Recitative Aria
Track length7:40
XI. Quartet
Track length8:54
XII. Lilith's Monologue
Track length3:44

Awards and reviews

January 2017

This recording with the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the excellent Gregory Vajda, is committed and precise. Soloist performances are strong all round, with Rebecca Nelsen’s highly-charged, pin-bright rendering of Eve particularly noteworthy
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