About this title: Mauricio Kagel's compositions are nothing if not wildly inventive, and Duodramen for soprano, baritone and orchestra is a fine example of his unhinged imagination. Each of the six movements features, as the title implies, a dialogue between two characters. The couplings include Indira Gandhi and Casanova, Henry Ford and Cosima Wagner, Alma Mahler Werfel and Genghis Khan, and, finally, Erich von Stroheim and Marie Antoinette. The texts, loosely derived by the composer from Goethe and some particularly dark folk poetry, bear little relation to the characters, but do provide a framework for some ...
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