ORFEO International – Reviews
Important Releases Briefly Introduced
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=Hilde Konetzni, Josef Kripfs: Songs
September 2009
ORFEO 1 CD C 597 091 B The recording conditions could hardly have been more dramatic. In the bleak mid-war winter of 1942-3, the lirico-spinto soprano Hilde Konetzni learnt a romantic song programme with Josef Krips as her accompanist and mentor. [more...]
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George London
September 2009
ORFEO 1 CD C 801 091 B It is not unique, but it will probably remain an occurrence as rare as it is welcome when the leading heroic baritone of his generation is also a master of the „small“, subtle form of the lied. [more...]
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Salzburger Festspieldokumente 2009
August 2009
Ever since its launch in 1992, Orfeo’s Salzburger Festspieldokumente series has showcased particularly memorable performances from the Salzburg Festival, and 2009 is no exception. [more...]
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=Press Conference of ORFEO together with Bayreuther Festspiele on 8th of August 2009
August 2009
ORFEO 2 CD C 692 092 I Hans Knappertsbusch conducted Der fliegende Holländer at only a single Bayreuth Festival. Even in retrospect the opening night of the 1955 Festival seems altogether exceptional. [more...]
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July 2009
ORFEO 1 CD C 642 091 A On his visits to England between 1791 and 1795, Joseph Haydn not only enjoyed growing popularity, but also developed a taste for arranging folk songs from the British Isles. To celebrate the Haydn bicentenary this year, ORFEO presents a selection of Scottish songs performed by the soprano Julie Kaufmann. [more...]
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Adrianne Pieczonka
July 2009
ORFEO 1 CD C 779 091 A There’s no doubt about it. Adrianne Pieczonka’s diary for the next few months makes it clear that this soprano, long celebrated for her Wagner and Strauss roles across the world, is now also in international demand for the Italian repertoire. [more...]
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Arabella Steinbacher
June 2009
ORFEO 1 CD C 778 091 A It is rare indeed to encounter an artistic collaboration that is so harmonious and results in such fine music-making. In this recording a soloist and a conductor of the younger generation. [more...]
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June 2009
ORFEO 1 CD C 780 091 A [more...]
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Felix Mendelssohn - Early Concertos for Violin and Piano
May 2009
ORFEO 2 CD C 761 092 A Youth and maturity – that could be the motto of the first new ORFEO recording for the Mendelssohn year 2009, with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and its chief conductor Michael Hofstetter. [more...]
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Simona Saturová - Haydn Arias
May 2009
ORFEO 1 CD C 782 091 A Simona Saturová, with her crystal clear, supremely flexible soprano voice, has already long established herself in the world’s concert halls, working with conductors such as Christoph Eschenbach, Sir Neville Marriner, Jirí Belohlávek and Manfred Honeck. [more...]
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Waldemar Kmentt
May 2009
ORFEO 1 CD C 770 091 B In 1955, he was already singing Jaquino in the production of Beethoven’s Fidelio for the reopening of the Vienna State Opera, and performed internationally in roles such as Mirko Zeta in The Merry Widow until the turn of the century. [more...]
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Dvorák: Kate and the Devil
April 2009
ORFEO 2 CD C 777 082 H After our complete recording of Král a uhlír ("King and Charcoal Burner"), which won a MIDEM Classical Award, we now present a further instalment of our Dvorák opera cycle with the WDR Cologne Symphony Orchestra under Gerd Albrecht: Cert a Kaca ("Kate and the Devil"). [more...]
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Puccini - Madama Butterfly
March 2009
ORFEO 2 CD C 767 092 I Even though Puccini’s Madama Butterfly flopped so spectacularly at its La Scala world premiere in 1904, the opera remains a hugely popular favourite [more...]
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Puccini - Il Trittico
March 2009
ORFEO 3 CD C 768 093 D Puccini’s three one-act operas Il Trittico are rarely encountered as a whole on a single evening. The „satyr play“ of the three, Gianni Schicchi, is usually uncoupled and staged alongside other short operas. [more...]
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Baermann - Mendelssohn
February 2009
ORFEO 1 CD C 673 091 A Heinrich Baermann and his son Carl were two of the great clarinet virtuosos of the 19th century, their artistry celebrated the length and breadth of Europe. To their friendship with Felix Mendelssohn we owe the latter’s two Concert Pieces opp. 113 and 114... [more...]
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Sergiu Celibidache
February 2009
ORFEO 5 CD C 725 085 R Even today Sergiu Celibidache (1912–96) continues to enjoy the reputation of a revolutionary genius, a conductor uniquely capable of realizing his interpretations without making the least concessions... [more...]
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Lisa Della Casa
January 2009
ORFEO 1 CD C 685 091 B No singer at the Vienna State Opera or elsewhere has been as closely associated with the title role in Strauss’s Arabella as Lisa Della Casa, who celebrates her 90th birthday on 2 February 2009, and yet we should be guilty of doing the Swiss soprano a grave disservice by reducing her repertory to this one role alone. [more...]
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Miroslav Kultyshev
January 2009
ORFEO 1 CD C 759 081 A The Russian pianist Miroslav Kultyshev was still a child when he discovered his altogether exceptional gifts as a musician. Not yet in his mid-twenties, he is now a regular visitor to all the world’s major concert halls. [more...]
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Ingrid Bjoner
January 2009
ORFEO 1 CD C 735 091 B The Norwegian soprano Ingrid Bjoner, who died in 2006, is one of the few long-standing members of the Bavarian State Opera whose name was linked not only with the legendary period immediately after the Second World War when the company was temporarily housed at the Prinzregententheater but also with the Nationaltheater, which reopened its doors in 1963. [more...]
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Verdi's Macbeth
November 2008
ORFEO 2 CD C 766 082 I Masterpiece though Verdi’s Macbeth undoubtedly is, it was only at a relatively late date that it found a niche for itself in the repertory of the world’s major opera houses. Even today it is difficult to cast the two main roles satisfactorily. [more...]
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David Oistrach
November 2008
ORFEO 1 CD C 736 081 B In 1956 the Vienna Festival marked the bicentenary of Mozart’s birth by focussing largely, if not exclusively, on works by Salzburg’s most famous son. Among the leading European orchestras that appeared on this occasion was the Leningrad Philharmonic, which gave two concerts under its principal conductor, Evgeny Mravinsky. [more...]
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Der Rosenkavalier
October 2008
ORFEO 3 CD C 581 083 D Carlos Kleiber has conducted Richard Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier in the most famous opera houses all over the world: the Scala in Milan, the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the Vienna State Opera, but nowhere as much as at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. [more...]
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Salzburger Festspieldokumente 2008
August 2008
During his first year as artistic director of the Salzburg Festival, it was almost a conscious policy on Herbert von Karajan’s part to court comparison with famous predecessors and eminent models... [more...]
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Salzburger Festspieldokumente 2008
August 2008
ORFEO 4 CD C 773 084 L 1957 was Herbert von Karajan’s first year as artistic director of the Salzburg Festival, and he was determined to leave the world in no doubt about his versatility as a conductor... [more...]
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Salzburger Festspieldokumente 2008
August 2008
ORFEO 3 CD C 774 083 D [more...]
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Salzburger Festspieldokumente 2008
August 2008
ORFEO 1 CD C 710 081 B Among the countless concerts that Karl Böhm conducted with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra at the Salzburg Festival were not only a number of inevitable repeats of standard works from the mainstream symphonic repertory but also a number of surprises and genuine trouvailles... [more...]
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Salzburger Festspieldokumente 2008
August 2008
ORFEO 1 CD C 775 081 B Little would be gained by describing yet again the exceptional standing of a pianist like Rudolf Buchbinder, who day in, day out has confirmed his command of his instrument over a period of several decades... [more...]
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Salzburger Festspieldokumente 2008
August 2008
ORFEO 1 CD C 711 081 B Among the many artists who returned to Europe after the Second World War and chose the Salzburg Festival as the place to resume their European careers was the violinist Zino Francescatti... [more...]
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Salzburger Festspieldokumente 2008
August 2008
ORFEO 2 CD C 776 082 B One of the most versatile representatives of the classical art of singing during the last twenty years has undoubtedly been the Slovenian mezzo-soprano Marjana Lipovek... [more...]
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July 2008
ORFEO 4 CD C 753 084 L The 1968 Bayreuth Festival opened with a new production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg that seemed to be heading for disaster when the central role of Hans Sachs had to be recast after the final dress rehearsal... [more...]
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July 2008
ORFEO 1 CD C 740 081 A [more...]
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June 2008
ORFEO 1 CD C 659 081 A With his recording of Dmitri Shostakovich's two cello concertos, Daniel Müller-Schott has set out to explore the later works of a composer whose cryptic style represents a particular challenge for the performer, such were the political and personal circumstances of the composer's life of suffering. [more...]
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June 2008
ORFEO 2 CD C 734 082 I With its new production of Capriccio on 7 June 2008, the Vienna State Opera is reviving a long-standing tradition in a house where the onstage debate over the relative merits of the words or the music in opera has always been conducted between the finest representatives of their profession. [more...]
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June 2008
ORFEO 1 CD C 739 081 A French chamber music from the time of the Third Republic is remarkable for its tremendous stylistic variety, revealing, as it does, not only Neoclassical elements but also unexpected rhythms, the sort of local colour associated with folk music and, last but not least, typically French melodies typified by their elegance and songlike character. [more...]
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May 2008
ORFEO 2 CD C 757 082 I They made a distinctly odd couple onstage: she was the supreme hochdramatisch soprano of her generation, a singer able to maintain her tremendous vocal powers over a period of several decades, whereas he could captivate his listeners as a poetic and spirited lyric tenor so prodigal with his resources that within a little more than a decade he had burned himself out. [more...]
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April 2008
ORFEO 2 CD C 765 082 I If singers loved working with Joseph Keilberth, it was because he brought to all his opera performances a deep knowledge of the work in question, a stick technique that left them in no doubt as to his intentions and a highly considerate musical sensitivity. [more...]
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April 2008
ORFEO 1 CD C 729 081 B From the late 1940s onwards, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in D minor was one of the works with which Herbert von Karajan could impress international audiences before he succeeded to Wilhelm Furtwängler’s post as principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic in 1955. [more...]
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April 2008
ORFEO 2 CD C 728 082 B As the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde’s concert director “for life”, Herbert von Karajan was repeatedly able to programme large-scale vocal works in Vienna’s Musikvereinssaal during the early 1950s. [more...]
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Piotr Beczala – Salut
March 2008
ORFEO 1 CD C 715 081 A With Gounod’s Faust, Piotr Beczala says "Salut" to the international record-buying public. [more...]
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March 2008
ORFEO 1 CD C 674 081 A The ability to prove oneself in large-scale musical forms does not necessarily mean that a composer is also able to handle small-scale forms, but one composer who was adept at both was Franz Danzi (1763–1826), who exerted a profound influence on the German musical scene at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century. [more...]
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Christa Ludwig
March 2008
ORFEO 3 CD C 758 083 D The wide-ranging repertory in which Christa Ludwig appeared at the Vienna State Opera, spoiling her audiences and often surprising them over a period of many years, is central to the present set of three CDs issued to mark her eightieth birthday. [more...]
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March 2008
ORFEO 2 CD C 733 082 I It was the local première of Bizet’s Carmen in Vienna in 1875 that ushered in the work’s run of successes in opera houses all over the world. Since then it has been performed countless times at the Vienna State Opera, and yet the new production that opened in February 1966 remains one of the most outstanding ever seen in the house. [more...]
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Teresa Stich-Randall
December 2007
ORFEO 1 CD C 755 071 B The death of Teresa Stich-Randall on 17 July of this year makes us all too aware how close and yet how distant great personalities and their achievements may be to the average opera lover. [more...]
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November 2007
ORFEO 1 CD C 749 071 A It seems that no rung is too high on Diana Damrau‘s career ladder: after being made a Bavarian Kammersängerin during the summer of 2007, she is currently appearing at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, alternating in the roles of Pamina and the Queen of Night. [more...]
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November 2007
ORFEO 1 CD C 679 071 A The reputation that Walter Braunfels enjoys today still falls far short of the high regard in which he was held during the 1920s, when he was seen as one of Germany‘s leading composers, his name frequently mentioned in the same breath as those of Richard Strauss and Franz Schreker. [more...]
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November 2007
ORFEO 1 CD C 676 071 A It was only after six years’ preparatory work, during which time he consulted every available edition of the piece, that Konstantin Lifschitz made this spectacular recording of Bach‘s Musical Offering, the first to be made on a modern concert grand. [more...]
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A Victorian Christmas
October 2007
ORFEO 1 CD C 689 061 A Charles Dickens notwithstanding, today’s readers will probably prefer not to have received their Christmas presents in England during the Industrial Revolution. [more...]
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Joseph Keilberth
October 2007
ORFEO 1 CD C 724 071 B Although there was a period following his death when Joseph Keilberth’s reputation suffered an eclipse, he is now once again numbered among those conductors of the second third of the 20th century whose work has finally received the attention that it deserves. [more...]
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Hans Knappertsbusch
October 2007
ORFEO 1 CD C 723 071 B So many anecdotes have grown up around the figure of Hans Knappertsbusch and so many remarks have been attributed to him, some of them amusing, others unrepeatably risqué, that it is all too easy to forget what a distinguished conductor he was. [more...]
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September 2007
ORFEO 2 CD C 732 072 I Der Freischütz is part of the standard repertory of every opera house in the German-speaking world, and yet the production that opened at the Vienna State Opera in May 1972 was the first that had been staged in the house for a quarter of a century. [more...]
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September 2007
ORFEO 1 CD C 731 071 B In Mozart in particular she was admired above all for the clarity of her timbre and her consistently lean-toned intonation that was free of all impurities. But it would be wrong to forget that Gundula Janowitz’s needle-sharp accuracy never impeded her emotional and dramatic involvement in a role. [more...]
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Salzburger Festspieldokumente 2007
August 2007
By way of an appendix to the Mozart celebrations of 2006, Orfeo is releasing Richard Strauss's version of Idomeneo on its Salzburg Festspieldokumente label. This version of Mozart's opera received two performances at the 2006 Salzburg Festival, uniquely complementing the "Mozart 22" project. [more...]
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August 2007
ORFEO 4 CD C 690 074 L When Hans Knappertsbusch conjured up the sounds of the Prelude to Act One of Parsifal from the "mystic abyss" of the Bayreuth Festspielhaus in 1964, few in the audience can have suspected that this would be the seventy-six-year-old conductor's final season on the Green Hill. [more...]
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Plácido Domingo
July 2007
ORFEO 2 CD C 698 072 I Orfeo’s newly released complete recording of Otello documents a brilliant first night from 1987. Plácido Domingo is heard here at the very height of his powers in one of his most famous roles: supple, impulsive, volatile and moving in his expression. [more...]
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Julia Varady
June 2007
ORFEO 1 CD C 730 071 B It was not until 1993 – relatively late in her career – that Julia Varady made her Vienna State Opera début with a tempestuously acclaimed performance as Senta in Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer that allowed her to show off her greatest strengths [more...]
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June 2007
ORFEO 3 CD C 699 073 D There are almost certainly no superlatives left to describe Plácido Domingo and his standing in the international world of opera today. The fortieth anniversary of his Vienna Opera State début is a further milestone in a career that the tenor, conductor and opera house administrator continues to pursue with unflagging energy. [more...]
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June 2007
ORFEO 1 CD C 693 071 A Difficult though it may be to date Johann Sebastian Bach's Gamba Sonatas BWV 1027–9 and ascribe them to a particular period in their creator's career, these are none the less delightful works from the point of view of their performers. [more...]
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Eduard Erdmann
May 2007
ORFEO 1 CD C 722 071 B Two further pianistic trouvailles in the archives of West German Radio are Reger’s Piano Concerto in F minor and Schubert’s B flat major Sonata, both of which provide eloquent testimony to the mastery of Eduard Erdmann. [more...]
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Wilhelm Kempff
May 2007
ORFEO 2 CD C 721 072 I The Broadcasting House in Cologne was also the venue for a series of recordings that Wilhelm Kempff made of some of the great showpieces in his vast repertory in 1956 and 1960. All attest to the clear and meticulous playing to which his listeners were accustomed. [more...]
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Shura Cherkassky
May 2007
ORFEO 1 CD C 720 071 B West German Radio’s reputation as one of the leading public media organizations with an active interest in classical music dates back at least to the early post-war period, when there was a constant stream of prominent instrumentalists and conductors keen to record in the old Broadcasting House in Cologne. [more...]
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Salzburger Festspieldokumente 2006
May 2007
For fifteen years our Festspieldokumente series has featured live recordings of highlights from eight decades of Salzburg Festival performances preserved in the archives of Austrian Radio. [more...]
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April 2007
ORFEO 1 CD C 718 071 B Rafael Kubelík was not only one of the leading interpreters of 19th- and early 20th-century concertos and symphonies, he was also well known for his keen advocacy of the music of important contemporaries whose works were relatively under-represented in international concert programmes. [more...]
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April 2007
ORFEO 1 CD C 719 071 B At the end of the concert enshrined in this latest release on the Orfeo label, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra is as loudly and warmly acclaimed as its conductor, Rafael Kubelík. [more...]
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March 2007
ORFEO 1 CD C 558 061 A The latest CD in our series devoted to contemporary lieder features works by not one but three composers. The names of the two friends Luigi Dallapiccola and Karl Amadeus Hartmann are closely associated with the renaissance of the avant-garde in the wake of the Second World War. [more...]
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Leonie Rysanek
February 2007
ORFEO 2 CD C 696 072 I She was a prima donna who in the course of a long and immensely eventful career repeatedly reinvented herself, starting with her early sensational successes when she was barely thirty. After a series of spectacular débuts at many of the world’s leading opera houses, she suffered a number of crises that she rapidly overcame, before finally going on to explore the fascinating world of character roles. [more...]
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Anthony Spiri
Sonatas and Fantasias by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
February 2007
ORFEO 1 CD C 639 061 A In the wake of his keen interest in the music of the whole of the Bach family, the pianist Anthony Spiri has long been eager to introduce works by Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714–88) to a wider audience. Many of these pieces are barely known, not least because the music is not available in printed form but only in manuscript copies. [more...]
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Così fan tutte
January 2007
ORFEO 2 CD C 697 072 I The name of Josef Krips is associated the world over with ensemble opera of the finest sort and with a timelessly valid approach to Mozart that remains exemplary in our responses to the composer. Both these qualities are evident in the Orfeo’s live recording of the Vienna State Opera’s production of Così fan tutte, a performance recorded on 22 September 1968. [more...]
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Herbert Blendinger: Media in vita
January 2007
ORFEO 1 CD C 006 061 A It is not easy to pigeonhole Herbert Blendinger’s compositional style and place it within the existing categories of new music. In spite of his profession of faith in traditional values, Blendinger’s works are far from conventional. Quite the opposite. [more...]
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Sena Jurinac
October 2006
ORFEO 2 CD C 684 062 I Although it is now twenty-four years since Sena Jurinac – an honorary member of the Vienna State Opera – bade farewell to the stage, memories of her great performances remain as fresh as ever. [more...]
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Inge Borkh
October 2006
ORFEO 1 CD C 714 061 B Inge Borkh made operatic history as Salome and Elektra, and she will continue to fascinate future generations of listeners with her recordings of these roles. The present portrait demonstrates that her artistic range was far greater than these two parts. [more...]
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Leopold Kozeluch – Mozart's Antipode?
September 2006
ORFEO 1 CD C 193 061 A Viele Komponisten ander Schwelle vom Rokoko zur Wiener Klassik, die sich durch eine große stilistische Bandbreite ausgezeichnet haben, werden an Worten und Taten, nicht aber an ihren Werken gemessen. [more...]
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Shostakovitch - Violin Concertos
September 2006
ORFEO 1 CD C 687 061 A A century after his birth, Dmitri Shostakovich is one of the most widely performed composers of the 20th century. He is not, however, particularly associated with the virtuoso concerto as a medium. [more...]
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La forza del destino
September 2006
ORFEO 2 CD C 681 062 I Verdi’s own operas, by contrast, generally need little help in promoting them, although it is still a good thing if from time to time they are lifted out of the rut of operatic routine, as happened to La forza del destino in 1960 [more...]
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Il giuramento – Pure Belcanto Pleasure
September 2006
ORFEO 2 CD C 680 062 I It is, of course, a commonplace that every evening in the theatre and every concert is a unique event that cannot be repeated, even though a great opera house like the Vienna State Opera may present a whole run of performances with an identical cast. [more...]
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July 2006
ORFEO 3 CD C 691 063 D The success of any performance of Lohengrin depends in no small way on the protagonist’s ability to combine heroic radiance with the cultivated tone associated with the bel canto repertory. In this regard the Hungarian tenor Sándor Kónya has always been regarded by cognoscenti as unsurpassable. [more...]
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June 2006
ORFEO 1 CD C 686 061 A With her much-acclaimed recording of the violin concertos of Darius Milhaud, to which she brought both ethereal weightlessness and naturalness of expression, Arabella Steinbacher showed that virtuoso, playful miniatures are just as close to her heart as the great concertos for her instrument [more...]
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May 2006
ORFEO 1 CD C 599 061 B There are voices that overwhelm the listener like a force of nature. And there are others that are capable of affecting us on the deepest emotional level. It is very rare for a singer – especially a hochdramatisch soprano – to combine these qualities, but one such exception was Ursula Schröder-Feinen. [more...]
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May 2006
ORFEO 1 CD C 702 061 B Candour and artistic curiosity characterize the art of Diana Damrau. There are few other lyric coloratura sopranos of recent years who have enjoyed such meteoric careers and who continue to scale new peaks of achievement. [more...]
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Meisterschaft in harmonischer wie formaler Gestaltung
April 2006
ORFEO 1 CD C 677 061 A Johann Wenzeslaus Kalliwoda (1801–66) is only one of many composers whose works, long undervalued and rarely performed, have been revived in modern times thanks to recordings such as those of the Stuttgart Hofkapelle under its conductor Frieder Bernius. [more...]
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Daniel Müller-Schott
April 2006
ORFEO 1 CD C 621 061 A It is with tremendous pleasure that ORFEO International presents Daniel Müller-Schott’s new CD featuring the cello concertos of Edward Elgar and William Walton. [more...]
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April 2006
ORFEO 1 CD C 645 061 A By the Romantic period at the latest Shakespeare’s works were the yardstick and inspiration for many new works throughout Europe. [more...]
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Adrianne Pieczonka
March 2006
ORFEO 1 CD C 665 061 A Ever since her sensational appearances as Tatyana in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin at the Vienna State Opera in 1997 the Canadian soprano Adrianne Pieczonka has been in constant demand in all the world’s major opera houses. [more...]
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February 2006
ORFEO 1 CD C 663 061 A What are the necessary conditions, what gifts, what stubbornness and even what element of chance are required for a man like Aribert Reimann to realize his greatest potential? In the light of his life’s work as a composer, this question far from unjustified. [more...]
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January 2006
ORFEO 1 CD C 644 061 A Whether serenade, quartet or sacred aria, Mozart inspired numerous transcriptions and arrangements during his lifetime. Dieter Klöcker and the Mannheim String Quartet reveal how virtuosic and varied Mozart’s music can sound in transcriptions for the same forces as those found in one of his most popular works: clarinet quintet. [more...]
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January 2006
ORFEO 1 CD C 664 061 A The string quartet as an alternative to the hybrid genre of drama giocoso: champagne and seduction may not be handed out by singers, but thanks to the sophisticated compositional technique of a skilful arranger and the Artist Quartet’s audible pleasure in their playing, the result is far more than mere background music designed to be played at supper. [more...]
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„Schmankerl“ for Mozart-Connaisseurs
Rainer Honeck and the Vienna Classical Players
January 2006
ORFEO 2 CD C 675 062 H Rainer Honeck, first violinist of the Vienna State Opera and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and leader of the Vienna State Opera Orchestra since 1984 and of the Vienna Philharmonic since 1992 often performs as soloist at leading centres in Europe, Japan and America. [more...]
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December 2005
ORFEO 1 CD/SACD C 700 051 B The places where a person’s life unfolds – especially the life of a musician like Carlos Kleiber – are not random but leave their mark on every facet of his personality. [more...]
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