Bruch: Die Loreley

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Die Loreley turns out to be very worthwhile. Bruch offers first-rate technical skills, and the idiom – misty Mendelssohnian Romanticism, with a few touches of early Wagner and a certain kinship... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 28th Dec 2018
Catalogue No: 777005-2
Label: CPO
Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

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April 2019

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Bruch: Die Loreley

Work length2:22:55

$38.00

$49.20

Thomas Hamberger (bass-baritone), Thomas Mohr (tenor), Benedikt Eder (baritone), Michaela Kaune (soprano), Sebastian Campione (bass), Danae Kontora (soprano), Magdalena Hinterdobler (soprano), Jan-Hendrik Rootering (bass-baritone)
Munich Radio Orchestra, Philharmonischer Chor Prag
Stefan Blunier
Recorded: 23 November 2014
Recording Venue: München, Prinzregententheater, Germany

Act I: Introduction

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Act I: Wir sind am Ort

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Act I: Seit ich von mir geschieden

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Act I: Lenore!

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Act I: Ave Maria!

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Act I: Rührt euch frisch

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Act I: Doch sprich, Vater Hubert

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Act I: Wir grüßen dich fein

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Act I: Lasst im Wind die Banner wallen

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Act II: Woher am dunkeln Rhein?

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Act III: Die du auf dem Regenbogen wandelst

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Act III: Erlauchtes Paar, bereitet ist das Mahl

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Act III: O Heil dem Herzen

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Act III: Halt ein!

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Act III: Siehst du ihn glühen im Brautpokal?

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Act III: Unwiderstehlich lockt ihr Gesang

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Act III: Zu euch ihr heil'gen Mauern

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Act III: O Herrin, fort von hier

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Act III: Der du kannst das Herz ergründen

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Act IV: Wir bringen des Herbstes köstliche Gabe

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Act IV: Mit euren Liedern haltet ein

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Act IV: Des Tage beim Werk

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Act IV: Folgt mir

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Act IV: O welche Mattigkeit!

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Act IV: Ich hab' mein Herz verloren

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The Loreley is one of the most famous figures of the romantic era, and even today the massive rock in the Rhine is notorious for threatening the river’s skippers with shipwreck. The legendary female figure with her seductive beauty today no longer haunts the river, but her story continues to resonate in the imagination. In 1861, when he was a mere twenty years old, Max Bruch, a Rhinelander born in Cologne, devoted an opera to the Loreley, a work based on a libretto by the great Emanuel Geibel himself.

This opera in four acts is only rarely performed and until now has never been recorded on CD. The Munich Radio Orchestra will now change this state of affairs: in a concert performance initiated by cpo the orchestra presented the work under the conductor Stefan Blunier, who was the General Music Director of the City of Bonn

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April 2019

Die Loreley turns out to be very worthwhile. Bruch offers first-rate technical skills, and the idiom – misty Mendelssohnian Romanticism, with a few touches of early Wagner and a certain kinship with Brahms – suits the subject down to the ground…The rich orchestral textures are beautifully realised by the Munich orchestra under Stefan Blunier…Thomas Mohr is thoughtful and engaged as the fatally compromised, doomed Otto, and Benedikt Eder proves vital as his seneschal Leopold.

March 2019

To a point Die Loreley is stodgy, formulaic and awkward, but it gets better as it proceeds…there’s some fire in the piece and some beautiful singing on this rendition of it…Michaela Kaune plots Lenore’s journey well but can be a little squeaky at the top of her register. Thomas Mohr’s Otto is eagerly sung in a well supported tenor.

April 2019

There’s no doubting the vitality of the music, the generosity of the writing, and the theatricality of the result.

April 2019

This white-hot performance leaves me thrilled and mystified. Thrilled to discover a remarkable opera, mystified as to why a work of such quality has been left mouldering in the vaults…Blunier and his orchestra do much to counteract the young composer’s overenthusiastic scoring…Bruch’s gripping grand opera is finally given the luxury treatment it so fully deserves.

Classical CD Review February 2019

Thomas Mohr sings the role of Otto with great assurance—there are plenty of vocal acrobatics in this lead tenor role.

Bruch: Die Loreley

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