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Vladimir Jurowski|Zemlinsky: A Florentine Tragedy & Six Maesterlinck Songs

Zemlinsky: A Florentine Tragedy & Six Maesterlinck Songs

Vladimir Jurowski, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Heike Wessels, Sergey Skorokhodov, Albert Dohmen, Petra Lang

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The music of Viennese composer Alexander Zemlinsky often lies somewhere between that of his romantic rival Mahler and Arnold Schoenberg, but the model for the one-act opera Eine florentinische Tragödie, A Florentine Tragedy, is clear: it bears a strong family resemblance to Richard Strauss' Salome. For his text Zemlinksy even sought out an unfinished and similarly lurid drama by Oscar Wilde, whose persecution for being gay was apparently not an issue in wide-open Vienna. The opera is not performed much, but it has an added kick coming from the fact that the love triangle depicted, featuring a noblewoman who is turned on when her husband strangles her lover in their boudoir, held resonances for Zemlinsky himself, who had seen his intended, Alma Schindler, take off with both Mahler and the architect Walter Gropius. (Consult songwriter Tom Lehrer for a full roadmap.) This is not just historical speculation but is fully documented in correspondence between Zemlinsky and Alma. At any rate, conductor Vladimir Jurowski's championing of the work seems justified. The music replicates Strauss' combination of passionate flow and extreme vocal intensity, and it opens with an orchestral prelude that fills in for the missing scene in the unfinished Wilde manuscript in which the illicit lovers are going at it. This is superior stuff, and Jurowski gets crackling intensity out of the London Philharmonic Orchestra on this live recording. The trio of singers, mezzo Heike Wessels as the easily swayed Bianca, tenor Sergey Skorokhodov as the lover Guido, and baritone Albert Dohmen as the enraged husband Simone, not only surmount the technical challenges but get the claustrophobia-inducing, confined quality of this work, which is more of a chamber opera than Salome. The singing is not quite as powerful in the Six Maeterlinck Songs, Op. 13, but this set of songs, too, has overtones of Zemlinsky's romantic entanglements. The LPO's live sound from Southbank Centre is fully acceptable, and for lovers of decadent Vienna this will be a nice find.
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Zemlinsky: A Florentine Tragedy & Six Maesterlinck Songs

Vladimir Jurowski

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A Florentine Tragedy, Op. 16 (Alexander von Zemlinsky)

1
Feurig Sturmend
00:04:44

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Alexander von Zemlinsky, Composer - Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor, MainArtist - Heike Wessels, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals - Sergey Skorokhodov, MainArtist, TenorSolo

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2
So Langsam, Weib
00:02:11

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Alexander von Zemlinsky, Composer - Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor, MainArtist - Heike Wessels, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals - Sergey Skorokhodov, MainArtist, TenorSolo

2014 London Philharmonic Orchestra Ltd 2014 LPO

3
Ich heisse Guido Bardi
00:02:44

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Alexander von Zemlinsky, Composer - Albert Dohmen, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor, MainArtist - Heike Wessels, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals - Sergey Skorokhodov, MainArtist, TenorSolo

2014 London Philharmonic Orchestra Ltd 2014 LPO

4
Wo ist Mein Bundel?
00:01:55

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Alexander von Zemlinsky, Composer - Albert Dohmen, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor, MainArtist - Heike Wessels, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals - Sergey Skorokhodov, MainArtist, TenorSolo

2014 London Philharmonic Orchestra Ltd 2014 LPO

5
Wackrer Simone, Genug
00:03:08

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Alexander von Zemlinsky, Composer - Albert Dohmen, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor, MainArtist - Heike Wessels, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals - Sergey Skorokhodov, MainArtist, TenorSolo

2014 London Philharmonic Orchestra Ltd 2014 LPO

6
Bianca, Sag, Stunde nicht dies kostbar edle Kleid...
00:03:30

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Alexander von Zemlinsky, Composer - Albert Dohmen, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor, MainArtist - Heike Wessels, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals - Sergey Skorokhodov, MainArtist, TenorSolo

2014 London Philharmonic Orchestra Ltd 2014 LPO

7
Wie, wenn ich die weisse Bianca forderte?
00:03:21

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Alexander von Zemlinsky, Composer - Albert Dohmen, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor, MainArtist - Heike Wessels, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals - Sergey Skorokhodov, MainArtist, TenorSolo

2014 London Philharmonic Orchestra Ltd 2014 LPO

8
Was gibt es Neues, mein Prinz?
00:05:16

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Alexander von Zemlinsky, Composer - Albert Dohmen, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor, MainArtist - Heike Wessels, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals - Sergey Skorokhodov, MainArtist, TenorSolo

2014 London Philharmonic Orchestra Ltd 2014 LPO

9
Wie er gleich einem schalen Kramer spricht!
00:03:32

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Alexander von Zemlinsky, Composer - Albert Dohmen, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor, MainArtist - Heike Wessels, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals - Sergey Skorokhodov, MainArtist, TenorSolo

2014 London Philharmonic Orchestra Ltd 2014 LPO

10
Genug! Zur Freunde reif ist diese Nacht
00:05:26

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Alexander von Zemlinsky, Composer - Albert Dohmen, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor, MainArtist - Heike Wessels, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals - Sergey Skorokhodov, MainArtist, TenorSolo

2014 London Philharmonic Orchestra Ltd 2014 LPO

11
Was meint der Fleck hier auf dem Tuch?
00:02:28

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Alexander von Zemlinsky, Composer - Albert Dohmen, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor, MainArtist - Heike Wessels, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals - Sergey Skorokhodov, MainArtist, TenorSolo

2014 London Philharmonic Orchestra Ltd 2014 LPO

12
Holdsel'ge Bianca, der schale Kramer langweilt mich
00:06:12

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Alexander von Zemlinsky, Composer - Albert Dohmen, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor, MainArtist - Heike Wessels, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals - Sergey Skorokhodov, MainArtist, TenorSolo

2014 London Philharmonic Orchestra Ltd 2014 LPO

13
Simone, jetzt buss ich nach Hause gehn!
00:02:00

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Alexander von Zemlinsky, Composer - Albert Dohmen, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor, MainArtist - Heike Wessels, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals - Sergey Skorokhodov, MainArtist, TenorSolo

2014 London Philharmonic Orchestra Ltd 2014 LPO

14
Ei, welch' ein Schwert!
00:02:18

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Alexander von Zemlinsky, Composer - Albert Dohmen, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor, MainArtist - Heike Wessels, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals - Sergey Skorokhodov, MainArtist, TenorSolo

2014 London Philharmonic Orchestra Ltd 2014 LPO

15
Bianca, hol mein Schwert!
00:02:06

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Alexander von Zemlinsky, Composer - Albert Dohmen, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor, MainArtist - Heike Wessels, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals - Sergey Skorokhodov, MainArtist, TenorSolo

2014 London Philharmonic Orchestra Ltd 2014 LPO

16
Narr, nimm mir vom Hais deine Wurgefinger!
00:01:15

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Alexander von Zemlinsky, Composer - Albert Dohmen, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor, MainArtist - Heike Wessels, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals - Sergey Skorokhodov, MainArtist, TenorSolo

2014 London Philharmonic Orchestra Ltd 2014 LPO

17
Und jetzt du dir!
00:02:25

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Alexander von Zemlinsky, Composer - Albert Dohmen, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor, MainArtist - Heike Wessels, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals - Sergey Skorokhodov, MainArtist, TenorSolo

2014 London Philharmonic Orchestra Ltd 2014 LPO

Six Maeterlinck Songs, Op. 13 (Alexander von Zemlinsky)

18
I. Die drei Schwestern
00:04:02

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Alexander von Zemlinsky, Composer - Petra Lang, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals - Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor, MainArtist

2014 London Philharmonic Orchestra Ltd 2014 LPO

19
II. Die Mädchen mit den verbundenen Augen
00:02:50

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Alexander von Zemlinsky, Composer - Petra Lang, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals - Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor, MainArtist

2014 London Philharmonic Orchestra Ltd 2014 LPO

20
III. Lied der Jungfrau
00:02:13

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Alexander von Zemlinsky, Composer - Petra Lang, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals - Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor, MainArtist

2014 London Philharmonic Orchestra Ltd 2014 LPO

21
IV. Als ihr Geliebter schied
00:01:58

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Alexander von Zemlinsky, Composer - Petra Lang, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals - Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor, MainArtist

2014 London Philharmonic Orchestra Ltd 2014 LPO

22
V. Und kehrt er einst heim
00:03:11

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Alexander von Zemlinsky, Composer - Petra Lang, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals - Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor, MainArtist

2014 London Philharmonic Orchestra Ltd 2014 LPO

23
VI. Sie kam zum Schloss gegangen
00:05:15

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Alexander von Zemlinsky, Composer - Petra Lang, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals - Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor, MainArtist

2014 London Philharmonic Orchestra Ltd 2014 LPO

Albumbeschreibung

The music of Viennese composer Alexander Zemlinsky often lies somewhere between that of his romantic rival Mahler and Arnold Schoenberg, but the model for the one-act opera Eine florentinische Tragödie, A Florentine Tragedy, is clear: it bears a strong family resemblance to Richard Strauss' Salome. For his text Zemlinksy even sought out an unfinished and similarly lurid drama by Oscar Wilde, whose persecution for being gay was apparently not an issue in wide-open Vienna. The opera is not performed much, but it has an added kick coming from the fact that the love triangle depicted, featuring a noblewoman who is turned on when her husband strangles her lover in their boudoir, held resonances for Zemlinsky himself, who had seen his intended, Alma Schindler, take off with both Mahler and the architect Walter Gropius. (Consult songwriter Tom Lehrer for a full roadmap.) This is not just historical speculation but is fully documented in correspondence between Zemlinsky and Alma. At any rate, conductor Vladimir Jurowski's championing of the work seems justified. The music replicates Strauss' combination of passionate flow and extreme vocal intensity, and it opens with an orchestral prelude that fills in for the missing scene in the unfinished Wilde manuscript in which the illicit lovers are going at it. This is superior stuff, and Jurowski gets crackling intensity out of the London Philharmonic Orchestra on this live recording. The trio of singers, mezzo Heike Wessels as the easily swayed Bianca, tenor Sergey Skorokhodov as the lover Guido, and baritone Albert Dohmen as the enraged husband Simone, not only surmount the technical challenges but get the claustrophobia-inducing, confined quality of this work, which is more of a chamber opera than Salome. The singing is not quite as powerful in the Six Maeterlinck Songs, Op. 13, but this set of songs, too, has overtones of Zemlinsky's romantic entanglements. The LPO's live sound from Southbank Centre is fully acceptable, and for lovers of decadent Vienna this will be a nice find.
© TiVo

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