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Graupner - Antiochus und Stratonica | CPO 5553692

Graupner - Antiochus und Stratonica

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Label: CPO

Cat No: 5553692

Barcode: 0761203536924

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 3

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 8th January 2021

Contents

Artists

Christian Immler (baritone)
Hana Blazikova (soprano)
Harry van der Kamp (bass)
Sunhae Im (soprano)
Sherezade Panthaki (soprano)
Aaron Sheehan (tenor)
Jesse Blumberg (baritone)
Jan Kobow (tenor)
Karlina Hogrefe (soprano)
Kim Kavanagh (soprano)
Capella Ansgarii
Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra

Conductors

Paul O’Dette
Stephen Stubbs

Works

Graupner, Christoph

Antiochus und Stratonica

Artists

Christian Immler (baritone)
Hana Blazikova (soprano)
Harry van der Kamp (bass)
Sunhae Im (soprano)
Sherezade Panthaki (soprano)
Aaron Sheehan (tenor)
Jesse Blumberg (baritone)
Jan Kobow (tenor)
Karlina Hogrefe (soprano)
Kim Kavanagh (soprano)
Capella Ansgarii
Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra

Conductors

Paul O’Dette
Stephen Stubbs

About

The prizewinning Boston Early Music Festival, joined by the choicest soloists, once again presents a spectacular Baroque opera discovery with Christoph Graupner’s Antiochus and Stratonica. Graupner composed the musical play L’Amore Ammalato, Die kranckende Liebe, oder: Antiochus und Stratonica during his time as the harpsichordist at the Gänsemarkt Opera in Hamburg. The core subject of the opera is the love of the Seleucid prince Antiochus for his stepmother Stratonica. This match brings with it highly dramatic moments as well as deeply sad ones inasmuch as Antiochus is supposed to have an incurable illness – but then at the end three old and new romantic couples appear on the stage and everything comes to a happy ending. Graupner’s opulent orchestral ensemble, which prescribes three recorders and four oboes in addition to strings and a large continuo apparatus, offers the most highly nuanced tonal manifoldness – and during his later decades as the Darmstadt court chapel master the composer would continue to expand this element.

Cast:
- Antiochus: Christian Immler (baritone)
- Stratonica: Hana Blažíková (soprano)
- Seleucus: Harry van der Kamp (bass)
- Mirtenia: Sunhae Im (soprano)
- Ellenia: Sherezade Panthaki (soprano)
- Demetrius: Aaron Sheehan (tenor)
- Hesychius, High Priest: Jesse Blumberg (baritone)
- Negrodorus: Jan Kobow (tenor)
- Flavia: Karlina Hogrefe (soprano)
- Medor: Kim Kavanagh (soprano)

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