Ferruccio Busoni
Doktor Faust
Fiorentino Maggio Musicale Orchestra - Cornelius Meister
Doktor Faust, which Busoni considered a personal creative drama and which occupied him for over twelve years, was left incomplete on his death at the age of 58. He had searched for a dramatic subject that he hoped would represent the apex and summary of his entire career. The opera was completed by Philipp Jarnach in 1925. As the librettist, Busoni managed to avoid comparison to Goethe, and in favouring an open, discontinuous form ‘in panels’, he developed a unique structure cast in two preludes, an orchestral intermezzo and three scenes to investigate poetic questions of operatic artifice.
Release date: November 2024
Performance at Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in January 2023
Hans Werner Henze
Das Floß der Medusa/The Raft of the Medusa
ORF VIENNA RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA - Cornelius Meister
Um das Fazit vorwegzunehmen: Dieser jetzt bei dem Label Capriccio auf CD erschienene, bereits 2017 im Konzerthaus Wien entstandene Live-Mitschnitt von Hans Werner Henzes Oratorium Das Floß der Medusa ist in jeder Beziehung uneingeschränkt empfehlenswert.
Ludwig Steinbach, Der Opernfreund, 3 September 2023
WUNDERHORN
complete edition
14 original orchestrations
10 orchestrations by Detlev Glanert
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Henschel’s voice is as velvet smooth as a pint of Guinness (…) It is not always the case in these songs that the male voice is so beautiful in tone. (…) Henschel is as imaginative and dramatic as anyone could wish for but he marries that with lashings of chocolatey tone to boot.
David mcDade, Music Web International
