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Henze, H: Gogo no Eiko

Name: Henze, H: Gogo no Eiko
Price: 22.75 USD
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Mari Midorikawa (Fusako Kuroda), Jun Takahashi (Noboru, Nummer Drei), Tsuyoshi Mihara (Ryuji), Teruhiko Komori (Nummer Eins), Zvi Emanuel-Marial (Nummer Zwei), Kwang-Il Kim (Nummer Vier) & Yasushi Hirano (Nummer Fünf)

Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, Gerd Albrecht

some of [Henze]s most beautiful and compelling music...Gerd Albrecht is a passionate advocate for the work...and the Japanese cast capture its claustrophobic world marvellously. The RAI Symphony... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 5th Oct 2009
Catalogue No: C794092
Label: Orfeo
Series: Orfeo d'Or, Salzburger Festspieldokumente
Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

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Henze, H: Das verratene Meer, Pt. 1 "Summer" (Sung in Japanese)

Work length57:29

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Mari Midorikawa, Teruhiko Komori, Jun Takahashi, Zvi Emanuel Marial, Tsuyoshi Mihara, Kwang-Il Kim, Yasushi Hirano
Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Torino
Gerd Albrecht

Scene 1a, — [Live]

Track length8:03

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Scene 1b, Verwandlungsmusik - Noborus Traum [Live]

Track length3:14

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Scene 2a, — [Live]

Track length4:27

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Scene 2b, Musette [Live]

Track length2:35

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Scene 2c, Verwandlungsmusik - Ryujis Traum [Live]

Track length1:35

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Scene 3a, — [Live]

Track length6:38

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Scene 3b, Verwandlungsmusik [Live]

Track length1:21

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Scene 4a, — [Live]

Track length4:04

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Scene 4b, Interlude [Live]

Track length1:29

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Scene 4c, Monologue [Live]

Track length2:35

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Scene 4d, Verwandlungsmusik [Live]

Track length1:30

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Scene 5a, — [Live]

Track length6:49

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Scene 5b, Verwandlungsmusik [Live]

Track length0:28

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Scene 6a, — [Live]

Track length4:29

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Scene 6b, Verwandlungsmusik [Live]

Track length0:49

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Scene 7, — [Live]

Track length3:38

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Scene 8, — [Live]

Track length3:45

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Henze, H: Das verratene Meer, Pt. 2 "Winter" (Sung in Japanese)

Work length51:55

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$19.45

Mari Midorikawa, Jun Takahashi, Tsuyoshi Mihara, Teruhiko Komori, Zvi Emanuel Marial, Kwang-Il Kim, Yasushi Hirano
Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Torino
Gerd Albrecht

Prelude [Live]

Track length0:46

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Scene 9a, — [Live]

Track length4:55

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Scene 9b, Verwandlungsmusik [Live]

Track length0:13

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Scene 10a, — [Live]

Track length5:20

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Scene 10b, Verwandlungsmusik [Live]

Track length0:42

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Scene 11a, — [Live]

Track length9:25

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Scene 11b, Verwandlungsmusik [Live]

Track length0:49

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Scene 12a, — [Live]

Track length3:34

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Scene 12b, Madrigal [Live]

Track length4:48

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Scene 12c, Kinderlied - Verwandlungsmusik [Live]

Track length3:58

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Scene 13, — [Live]

Track length5:56

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Scene 14, — [Live]

Track length11:29

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First staged in 1990, Hans Werner Henze's opera Das verratene Meer is based on Yukio Mishima's novel Gogo no eiko (The Sailor who fell from Grace with the Sea) and harks back to the traditions of literary naturalism and the verismo of early 20th-century music theatre. At the suggestion of the conductor Gerd Albrecht, Henze prepared a Japanese version of the score that was performed for the first time in Salzburg in 2006. Under Albrecht's direction, the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI gave a sympathetic account of an iridescent score that ranges from exotic reminiscences of Japan to the impressions of a large city and from the atmospheric portrait of a doomed love story to a drama about juvenile violence, all of which strands are tightly interwoven right up to the moment of the final fatal confrontation in the closing scene of the opera.The cast includes three outstanding singing actors, the soprano Mari Midorikawa, the tenor Jun Takahashi and the baritone Tsuyoshi Mihara, all of whom create gripping portraits of the widow Fusako Kuroda, her 13-year-old son and the boy's stepfather.The recording affords further proof of the Salzburg Festival's ongoing commitment to broadening its repertory and to its desire to juxtapose the old and the new in thrilling ways that never compromise on quality.

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May 2010

some of [Henze]s most beautiful and compelling music...Gerd Albrecht is a passionate advocate for the work...and the Japanese cast capture its claustrophobic world marvellously. The RAI Symphony Orchestra reveals the many colourful nuances of this often shimmering score with aplomb.

4th November 2009

This live recording of that production showcases a much tightened, more idiomatically alert work that benefits from Gerd Albrecht’s taut and tempered conducting and the coruscatingly poetic playing of the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI. Added authenticity comes from a young and largely Japanese cast.

6th May 2010

...an often rapturously beautiful score...It's a slightly queasy mix of eroticism and violence, but what's striking about the score now is the tact and subtlety with which Henze presents it. The recomposed vocal lines seem totally natural with the new Japanese text, and under Albrecht the all-Japanese cast is convincing

Henze, H: Gogo no Eiko

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