Holliger - Lunea | ECM New Series 4856322

Holliger - Lunea

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Label: ECM New Series

Cat No: 4856322

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 29th April 2022

Contents

Artists

Christian Gerhaher (baritone)
Juliane Banse (soprano)
Ivan Ludlow (baritone)
Sarah Maria Sun (soprano)
Annette Schonmuller (soprano)
Basler Madrigalisten
Philharmonia Zurich

Conductor

Heinz Holliger

Works

Holliger, Heinz

Lunea

Artists

Christian Gerhaher (baritone)
Juliane Banse (soprano)
Ivan Ludlow (baritone)
Sarah Maria Sun (soprano)
Annette Schonmuller (soprano)
Basler Madrigalisten
Philharmonia Zurich

Conductor

Heinz Holliger

About

Heinz Holliger's "dream opera" Lunea which was premiered, to great acclaim, at Opernhaus Zurich, interweaves strands from the life and mind of Nikolaus Franz Niembsch (1802-1850), the Hungarian-born Austrian poet who wrote under the name Nikolaus Lenau.

Lenau's last, fragmentary writings have fired Holliger's imagination and led to the creation of an intricately inventive work with a marvellously evocative lead role for baritone Christian Gerhaher.

The 2-CD set, in slipcase, is accompanied by an an extensive 120-page German-English booklet with the full libretto by Händl Klaus and synopses of each of the opera's 23 scenes, as well as a liner essay by Roman Brotbeck, a performer's note by Christian Gerhaher, score fragments, performance photography, and more.

"Here Gerhaher can display his full sensitivity in dealing with the finest nuances of language and bring to bear his almost unlimited spectrum of tonal-dynamic gradations in the intonation. The poet Lenau speaks most directly from the sounds and notes..." – Neue Zürcher Zeitung

Reviews

Christian Gerhaher is astonishing in the virtuoso principal role, written (as was the song cycle) expressly for him, traversing the gamut of language and expression from song to speech.  Steph Power (Opera Choice)
BBC Music Magazine July 2022

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