Chorgesang mit Orchester 1948-1970.

Format:

Sound recording

Contributor:

Walz, Melanie, performer.

Münzing, Ebba, performer.

Riess, Heidi, performer.

Lutze, Gert, performer.

Neitzel, Ulrich, tenor, performer.

Krokowski, E. (Ernst), 1926- performer.

Seipp, Joachim, performer.

Rungenhagen, Herbert, performer.

Kegel, Herbert, conductor.

Guhl, Adolf Fritz, 1919-1977, conductor.

Hauschild, Wolf-Dieter, 1937- conductor.

Travis, Francis, 1921-2017, conductor.

Schreier, Manfred, conductor.

Language:

English

German

Latin

Multiple languages

Subjects (All):

Vocal music--Germany--20th century.

Vocal music.

Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with orchestra.

Cantatas.

Oratorios--Excerpts.

Oratorios.

Requiems--Excerpts.

Requiems.

Germany.

Genre:

Vocal music.

Sound recordings.

Excerpts.

Physical Description:

1 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

Place of Publication:

[Germany] : BMG Ariola Classics : Deutscher Musikrat ; [Place of publication not identified] : RCA Red Seal, [2005]

Language Note:

Sung in German or Latin; one section of the final work is in English, another in Czech.

System Details:

digital

optical

1.4 m/s

digital recording

Contents:

An die Nachgeborenen : Kantate für Singstimme, Sprecher und Orchester / Wolfgang Fortner ; text, Bertolt Brecht (13:16)

Mansfelder Oratorium (Der Weg der Mansfelder Bergkumpels) : für Sprecher, Soli, Chor und Orchester. Teil II, Die Zeit der grossen Bauernkriege. Nr. 13-15 (2:29) ; Nr. 16 (5:35). Teil VII, VVB Mansfeld. Nr. 50 (4:49) ; Nr. 51 (2:08) ; Nr. 52 (1:05) ; Nr. 53 (1:44) / Ernst Hermann Meyer ; nach Worten von Stephan Hermlin

Genesis. Teil VI / Rudolf Wagner-Régeny ; text from the Vulgate (8:46)

Sprache der Liebenden / Frank Michael Beyer ; text, Friedrich Hölderlin (13:42)

Requiem für einen jungen Dichter. Prolog / Bernd Alois Zimmermann ; words of various authors (Wittgenstein, Pope John XXIII, James Joyce, A, Dubčeks) (13:11).

Participant:

Melanie Walz (1st work), soprano ; Ebba Münzing (2nd work), mezzo-soprano ; Heidi Riess (3rd work), alto ; Gert Lutze (1st work), Ulrich Neitzel (2nd work), tenors ; Ernst Krokowski (4th work), Joachim Seipp (5th work), baritones ; Herbert Rungenhagen (2nd work), bass ; Walter Stickan (1st work), Robert Trösch (2nd work), Andreas Sippel, Stephan Schad (5th work), speakers ; Rundfunkchor Leipzig (1st, 3rd works) ; Grosser Chor des Berliner Rundfunks (2nd work) ; Berliner Solistenkollegium (4th work) ; Markus-Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart (5th work) ; Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig (1st, 3rd works) ; Grosses Orchester des Berliner Rundfunks (2nd work) ; Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (4th work) ; Junges Philharmonisches Orchester Stuttgart (5th work) ; Herbert Kegel (1st work), Adolf Fritz Guhl (2nd work), Wolf Dieter Hauschild (3rd work), Francis Travis (4th work), and Manfred Schreier (5th work), conductors.

Notes:

Issued as part of the document Musik in Deutschland 1950-2000, in the section Vokalmusik mit Orchester, of the branch Konzertmusik. Issue number on original box: RCA Red Seal BMG Classics 74321 73661 2.

Recorded Aug. 28, 1954, Leipzig (1st work), Oct. 16-22, 1950, Haus des Rundfunks, Berlin (2nd work), June 16, 1979, Thomaskirche, Leipzig (3rd work), Jan. 19, 1962, Sendesaal, Berlin (4th work, an excerpt of the premiere performance), and Nov. 14, 1987, Liederhalle Beethovensaal, Stuttgart (5th work)

Compact disc.

In part analog, in part digital recordings.

Program notes by Habakuk Traber in German, and texts of some works with German translation of the Latin (26 p. : ill.) inserted in container.

Contains:

Fortner, Wolfgang, 1907-1987. An die Nachgeborenen.

Meyer, Ernst Hermann, 1905-1988. Mansfelder Oratorium. Selections.

Wagner-Régeny, Rudolf, 1903-1969. Genesis, T. 6.

Beyer, Frank Michael. Sprache der Liebenden.

Zimmermann, Bernd Alois, 1918-1970. Requiem für einen jungen Dichter. Prolog.

OCLC:

249597073

Publisher Number:

74321 73567 2 BMG Classics RCA Red Seal

74321 73661 2 RCA Red Seal BMG Classics