Because the release of this magnificent SACD of Arnold Schoenberg's Gurrelieder was intended to celebrate conductor Michael Gielen's 80th birthday, the enterprise seems a fitting present to him, since few conductors have been more devoted to the composer's cause; this brilliant performance appears to be a fulfillment of Gielen's long-held wish to ...
Berlioz's opera Benvenuto Cellini had a difficult genesis. Although it's a comedy, it was produced in 1838 at the Paris Opéra rather than at l'Opéra Comique, which would have been a more suitable venue had its directors not rejected the piece. It was greeted with hostility by both its performers and the audience and was quickly dropped. Liszt ...
Apart from Mendelssohn's Elijah and Paulus, Brahms' German Requiem, and Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, the undisputed champ among nineteenth century oratorios is Franz Liszt's gigantic Christus. Composed in just four years between 1859 and 1863 on an unwieldy libretto by Princess Carolyne von Sayn-Wittgenstein, Christus may have been intended as ...
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