Tsao: Die Geisterinsel (The Ghost Island)

Release Date: 30th Mar 2015
Catalogue No: KAI0013372
Label: Kairos
Length: 65 minutes

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Tsao: Die Geisterinsel

Work length47:55

Daniel Kluge, Hans Kremer, Stefan Merki, Claudio Otelli, Tajana Raj
Orpheus Vokalensemble, Staatsoper Stuttgart
Stefan Schreiber
Recorded: 18-20 February 2013
Recording Venue: Mozartsaal Liederhalle, Stuttgart

Steine

Track length2:22

Blumen

Track length6:34

Tiefer ins Leben

Track length2:39

Schrecken, die uns drohn

Track length4:02

In der Huelle dieses Sklaven

Track length6:11

Fremdling hoere meinen Willen

Track length2:11

Vor des nahen Sturmes Grimmen

Track length0:39

Traurige Korallen

Track length3:29

"Where the Bee sucks"

Track length7:24

Der Sturm

Track length2:25

Geisterchoral

Track length2:01

Ich heiße Caliban

Track length5:10

Sandfall

Track length2:48

Tsao: Serenade

Work length12:30

Cecilia Vallinder
Ensemble Gageego!, Staatsoper Stuttgart
Rei Munakata
Recorded: 25 November 2012
Recording Venue: Element Studio Goteborg

Tsao: If ears were all that were needed...

Work length2:26

Seth Josel
Ensemble Gageego!, Oprheus Vokalensemble, Staatsoper Stuttgart
Stefan Schreiber
Recorded: 25 November 2012
Recording Venue: Element Studio Goteborg

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Die Geisterinsel [The Ghost Island] by Ming Tsao, styled after the eponymous singspiel by Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg, Kapellmeister at the Württemberg court and a contemporary of Mozart, is a chamber opera for singers and actors.

Unlike in Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail or Strauss’s prologue to Ariadne auf Naxos, the purpose of this combination of forces is not to set up a contrast. Here, the text spoken by the two actors who play Caliban is of a fragmented character and interlocks with the rhythmical and metric structure—thus seeming to arise directly from the kaleidoscope of sounds and noises in a more or less onomatopoetic way.

The singers, in the context of this work’s music, hardly ever manage an actual sung line, but instead respond to the complex world of sounds around them with speech-like musical Two pieces, Serenade for ensemble and if ears were all that were needed… are completing this potrait CD.

Tsao: Die Geisterinsel (The Ghost Island)

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