Strauss, R: Elektra

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If there's such a thing as an anti-Solti Elektra, this is it...[it] burns at its own distinctive temperature, with a strong sense of live-performance through-line and in a much more orchestrally... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2013 More…

Release Date: 19th Nov 2012
Catalogue No: CC72565
Label: Challenge Classics
Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

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Strauss, R: Wo bleibt Elektra?

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Helena Rasker, Lien Haegeman, Astrid Hofer, Anja van Engeland
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam
Marc Albrecht

Strauss, R: Allein! Weh, ganz allein

Work length9:40

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Evelyn Herlitzius
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam
Marc Albrecht

Excerpt, Strauss, R: Elektra

Work length2:23

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Camilla Nylund, Evelyn Herlitzius
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam
Marc Albrecht

Strauss, R: Ich kann nicht sitzen und ins Dunkel starren

Work length8:39

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Camilla Nylund, Evelyn Herlitzius
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam
Marc Albrecht

Strauss, R: Was willst du! Seht doch, dort!

Work length4:34

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Michaela Schuster, Evelyn Herlitzius, Iris Giel, Hiroko Mogaki
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam
Marc Albrecht

Strauss, R: Ich will nichts horen!

Work length5:01

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Michaela Schuster
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam
Marc Albrecht

Strauss, R: Ich habe keine guten Nachte

Work length6:28

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Michaela Schuster, Evelyn Herlitzius
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam
Marc Albrecht

Strauss, R: Wenn das rechte Blutopfer unterm Beile fallt

Work length4:27

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Evelyn Herlitzius, Michaela Schuster
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam
Marc Albrecht

Strauss, R: Was bluten muss?

Work length2:13

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Evelyn Herlitzius, Michaela Schuster
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam
Marc Albrecht

Strauss, R: Lichter!

Work length1:44

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Michaela Schuster, Evelyn Herlitzius
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam
Marc Albrecht

Strauss, R: Orest! Orest ist tot!

Work length3:05

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Camilla Nylund, Evelyn Herlitzius, Pascal Pittie, Jan Alofs
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam
Marc Albrecht

Strauss, R: Platz da!

Work length2:59

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Pascal Pittie, Jan Alofs, Evelyn Herlitzius, Camilla Nylund
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam
Marc Albrecht

Strauss, R: Wie stark du bist!

Work length4:45

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Evelyn Herlitzius, Camilla Nylund
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam
Marc Albrecht

Strauss, R: Nun denn, allein!

Work length1:21

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Evelyn Herlitzius, Gerd Grochowski
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam
Marc Albrecht

Strauss, R: Was willst du, fremder Mensch?

Work length6:47

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Evelyn Herlitzius, Gerd Grochowski
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam
Marc Albrecht

Strauss, R: Wer bist denn du?

Work length2:08

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Gerd Grochowski, Evelyn Herlitzius
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam
Marc Albrecht

Strauss, R: Orest!

Work length8:55

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Evelyn Herlitzius, Gerd Grochowski
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam
Marc Albrecht

Strauss, R: Du wirst es tun? Allein?

Work length3:07

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Evelyn Herlitzius, Gerd Grochowski
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam
Marc Albrecht

Strauss, R: Ich habe ihm das Beil nicht geben konnen!

Work length2:25

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Evelyn Herlitzius, Camilla Nylund, Anja van Engeland
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam
Marc Albrecht

Strauss, R: He! Lichter! Lichter!

Work length4:10

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Hubert Delamboye, Evelyn Herlitzius
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam
Marc Albrecht

Strauss, R: Helft! Morder!

Work length1:14

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Hubert Delamboye, Evelyn Herlitzius
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam
Marc Albrecht

Strauss, R: Elektra! Schwester!

Work length3:28

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Camilla Nylund
Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra
Marc Albrecht

Strauss, R: Wir sind bei den Gottern

Work length3:43

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Evelyn Herlitzius, Camilla Nylund
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam
Marc Albrecht

Strauss, R: Schweig', und tanze

Work length2:16

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Evelyn Herlitzius, Camilla Nylund
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam
Marc Albrecht

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This recording of Richard Strauss’s opera Elektra by De Nederlandse Opera (The Netherlands Opera) was made in November 2011 at the Amsterdam Music Theatre. In addition to an impressive cast, it features the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and the Toonkunst Choir Amsterdam conducted by Marc Albrecht.

The Netherlands Opera (DNO) is the Netherlands’ largest opera company and is based in The Amsterdam Music Theatre. It has grown into one of Europe's most prominent and progressive opera companies under the leadership of artistic director Pierre Audi and managing director Truze Lodder. Since the 2011-2012 season Marc Albrecht has been the chief conductor of both DNO and the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra/Netherlands Chamber Orchestra. Marc Albrecht is known for his interpretations of works by Wagner and Richard Strauss, and of contemporary music, and has been a guest conductor with many top orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.

Richard Strauss’s opera Elektra received its world premiere on January 25th 1909 in the Hofoper in Dresden. Despite being based on ancient Greek mythology, the opera is highly modernistic and expressionist in style, and shocked audiences at the time with its raw, brutal and bloodthirsty approach to its subject.

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April 2013

If there's such a thing as an anti-Solti Elektra, this is it...[it] burns at its own distinctive temperature, with a strong sense of live-performance through-line and in a much more orchestrally integrated approach...because the performances does all the right things, you reach the end emotionally but not aurally exhausted.

20th January 2013

[Herlitzius's] lean, bright, penetrating soprano may not be as alluring as those of famous recorded Elektras...but her mastery of the notes and the text, and her understanding of both the ferociously vindictive and the tender aspects of the character’s psychology, are so complete that she rivets attention from start to finish...A must for Straussians.

Strauss, R: Elektra

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