Schubert: Incidental music to Rosamunde, D797

Boyd gets crisp and responsive playing from his Winterthur orchestra, founded on lean-toned strings, wth violins properly divided left and right...[Rhythms] are supple and buoyant, while first... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2011 More…

Release Date: 21st Mar 2011
Catalogue No: MDG9011633
Label: MDG
Series: Scene

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Serena Malfi (alto)
Schweizer Kammerchor & Musikkollegium Winterthur
Douglas Boyd

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The premiere of the drama Rosamunde took place in Vienna in 1823. It was a complete disaster and was taken off next day. Happily, the music has survived and is interpreted here anew by Serena Malfi, the Swiss Chamber Choir and the Musikkollegium Winterthur under Douglas Boyd, in a spirited recording.

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October 2011

Boyd gets crisp and responsive playing from his Winterthur orchestra, founded on lean-toned strings, wth violins properly divided left and right...[Rhythms] are supple and buoyant, while first flute, oboe and especially clarinet frolic gracefully in their many bucolic solos. The fresh-toned Swiss Chamber Choir are at least a match for their rivals; and Serena Malfi brings a flavoursome, Latin timbre, if no special feeling for the words, to the wistful Romance.

May 2011

Boyd conveys the dramatic impetus of the 'First Entr'acte' without equivocation...Yet it is the 'Second Entr'acte' that emerges the most persuasively here...As to the vocal items, the Schweizer Kammerchor brings appropriate gravity to the Weber-like 'Spirits' Chorus' and a ready brio to the 'Huntsmen's Chorus', while the 'Shepherds' Chorus' is dispatched with a properly infectious swing.

Schubert: Incidental music to Rosamunde, D797

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