Special offer. Peter Eötvös: Tri Sestry (Three Sisters)
Dmitry Egorov, Nokolai Petersen, David DQ Lee, Ray Chenez, Nikolai Petersen, Eric Jurenas, Krešimir Stražanac, Iain MacNeil, Thomas Faulkner, Barnaby Rea, Mark Milhofer, Mikołaj Trąbka, Michael McCown, Isaac Lee, Alfred Reiter, Oper Frankfurt, Chor der Oper Frankfurt, Dennis Russell Davies
As a purely aural experience, Tri sestry is beguiling but never intimidating. The performance and recording are excellent.
Special offer. Peter Eötvös: Tri Sestry (Three Sisters)
Dmitry Egorov, Nokolai Petersen, David DQ Lee, Ray Chenez, Nikolai Petersen, Eric Jurenas, Krešimir Stražanac, Iain MacNeil, Thomas Faulkner, Barnaby Rea, Mark Milhofer, Mikołaj Trąbka, Michael McCown, Isaac Lee, Alfred Reiter, Oper Frankfurt, Chor der Oper Frankfurt, Dennis Russell Davies
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As a purely aural experience, Tri sestry is beguiling but never intimidating. The performance and recording are excellent.
About
Peter Eötvös (b. 1944) is one of the most renowned Hungarian composers and conductors of our times. The libretto for his Tri sestry (Three Sisters) was written by Claus H. Henneberg, together with the composer, and the opera is based on Chekhovs 1901 play of the same name. The production is directed by conductor Dennis Russell Davies and his co-conductor, Frankfurt's Kapellmeister Nikolai Petersen. Oper Frankfurt followed the composers original intentions for the three sisters, casting internationally successful countertenors in the roles: American Ray Chenez as Irina, Canadian David D.Q. Lee as Mascha, and the Russian Dmitry Egorovas Olga. All three countertenors worked conclusively and vocally differentiated the characteristic peculiarities of their character. And yet, as a trio, they were just as wonderful together. Bachtrack.com 5*
Contents and tracklist
- Dmitry Egorov, Nokolai Petersen, David DQ Lee, Ray Chenez, Nikolai Petersen, Eric Jurenas, Krešimir Stražanac, Iain MacNeil, Thomas Faulkner, Barnaby Rea, Mark Milhofer, Mikołaj Trąbka, Michael McCown, Isaac Lee, Alfred Reiter
- Oper Frankfurt, Chor der Oper Frankfurt
- Dennis Russell Davies
Awards and reviews
March/April 2020
As a purely aural experience, Tri sestry is beguiling but never intimidating. The performance and recording are excellent.
March 2020
One especial feature of Eötvös’s setting is his apparent enjoyment of the chance to explore the verbally ambivalent motivations of the arguments which pretty much dominate Chekhov’s dramaturgy...There are also some rare and beautiful passages of reflection for the orchestra alone that may remind some of Bartòk
March 2020
Eötvös’s vocal writing is a grateful mixture of Sprechgesang, speech and an expressive lyricism I’d describe as spectral Tchaikovsky...It’s good for listeners to find the three sisters so audibly differentiated: Dmitry Egorov’s calm, grounded Olga sets off David DQ Lee’s sensual, grainy Masha and Ray Chenez’s bright Irina most obligingly. As a team they blend well.
