Schulhoff: Flammen (Flames)

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Bertrand de Billy is in his element, whether it’s on the dance f loor, ushering in the Dies Irae or leading a battery of orgasmic bells. Raymond Very is a handsome Don Juan, at his best in the... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 2nd Apr 2021
Catalogue No: C5382
Label: Capriccio
Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

International Classical Music Awards

2022

Nominated - Opera

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Schulhoff: Flammen

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Raymond Very, Gabriela Bone, Nina Bernsteiner, Anna Peshes, Christa Ratzenbock, Hermine Haselböck, Elisabeth Wolfbauer, Stephanie Friede, Iris Vermillion, Salvador Fernández-Castro, Karl-Michael Ebner, Andreas Jankowitsch, Markus Raab
Arnold Schoenberg Chor, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
Bertrand de Billy

Einsam im Haus [Live]

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Roter Tropfen glüht [Live]

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Es schweigt der Dom [Live]

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Sonnenräume, Ewigkeit [Live]

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Schön steht ihr da und fest [Live]

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Warum so lässig und wie Stein [Live]

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Wie Regenbogen am Horizont [Live]

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Laue Nacht [Live]

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Introduction [Live]

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Bringt ihr Liebe oder Tod [Live]

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Du gehst durch Nacht [Live]

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Also doch der alte Effekt [Live]

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Sprich, steh auf! Enttäuscht von allem [Live]

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Der Wein zischt auf und Blut erdröhnt [Live]

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Nie! Tod sitzt in meinem Gesicht [Live]

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Einsam das Haus [Live]

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In the 1920s and 30s, Czechoslovakia was flourishing culturally and boasted a multi-faceted musical scene. In considering the works of composers such as Pavel Haas, Gideon Klein, Hans Krása, Viktor Ullmann and Erwin Schulhoff, we can see how they develop along similar stylistic lines, as measured against the established 'Prague School', which was a counter-movement to the 'Viennese School'. Schulhoff's early works feature a Reger-influenced late Romantic approach that later developed, through an emphasis on rhythm, towards expressionism and neo-classicism, while also including elements of jazz. The starting point for Flammen is the Don Juan story, but the aim of Beneš and Schulhoff's work is not to present the colourful seducer, but the fate of a man driven by his desires and needs who cannot even remotely find happiness and peace in constancy. In his opera, Schulhoff brilliantly manages to reconcile this different dramaturgical approach with a kind of distanced homage to Mozart's work.

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June 2021

Bertrand de Billy is in his element, whether it’s on the dance f loor, ushering in the Dies Irae or leading a battery of orgasmic bells. Raymond Very is a handsome Don Juan, at his best in the lament that ends Act I.

October 2021

Flammen gathers fierier momentum under Bertrand de Billy and his impressive Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra than it did in Decca’s pioneering set.

8th April 2021

Though the dramaturgy is sometimes creaky, the range of Schulhoff’s score is fascinating... And despite the intrusive stage noise, it’s the vivid orchestral music that comes out best in this performance under Bertrand de Billy – even if that’s sometimes at the expense of the voices, which are not always as far forward as they might be.

Schulhoff: Flammen (Flames)

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