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R Strauss - Elektra  | Brilliant Classics 9153

R Strauss - Elektra

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Label: Brilliant Classics

Cat No: 9153

Barcode: 5029365915328

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 22nd February 2010

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Contents

Artists

Alessandra Marc
Deborah Voigt
Samual Ramey
Siegfried Jerusalem
Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopenchor
Wiener Philharmoniker

Conductor

Giuseppe Sinopoli

Works

Strauss, Richard

Elektra, op.58

Artists

Alessandra Marc
Deborah Voigt
Samual Ramey
Siegfried Jerusalem
Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopenchor
Wiener Philharmoniker

Conductor

Giuseppe Sinopoli

About

Elektra was the first of the collaborative fruits of Strauss and his long-term librettist Hugo von Hoffmanstahl. The work was premiered in Dresden in 1909, and the libretto caused much consternation among critics and public alike, being called immoral and perverse. However, the critics evidently didn’t know their Sophocles well, for Hoffmanstahl had adhered closely to the original – which he knew well in the original Greek.

The tension created by Strauss is almost unbearable at times. That said, Elektra is a less daring score than Salome, and the composer had begun to row back from the edge of tonality and the world that Schoenberg would shortly inhabit. This journey back from the fringes of tonality would triumph with the gloriously sumptuous Der Rosenkavalier.

Cast:
- Alessandra Marc: Elektra
- Deborah Voigt: Chrysothemis
- Hanna Schwarz: Klytamnestra
- Samual Ramey: Orest
- Siegfried Jerusalem: Aegist

"Sinopoli and the [engineers] have gone even further (than Barenboim/Teldec) in exposing the panoply of sound Strauss conjured from his vast orchestra in the most vivid sound yet…you will certainly find much here to thrill mind and heart." - Gramophone, 1997

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