Schoenberg - Moses und Aron
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Label: Brilliant Classics - Opera Collection
Cat No: 9083
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 23rd March 2009
Contents
Artists
Gunter ReichLouis Devos
Chor und Sinfonieorchester des Osterreichischen Rundfunks
Conductor
Michael GielenWorks
Moses und AronArtists
Gunter ReichLouis Devos
Chor und Sinfonieorchester des Osterreichischen Rundfunks
Conductor
Michael GielenAbout
One of a series called the 'Opera Collection' – an extensive new collection of operas, ranging from baroque to the twentieth century, many of which are award winners.
Schoenberg started composing Moses und Aron (Aaron has an ‘a’ missing owing to the composer’s superstition about the number 13) in 1928, working on the libretto and score up to 1933. Fleeing Vienna to escape the Nazi persecution of the Jewish population, Schoenberg settled in the US where he continued working throughout the 1940s to complete Act 3. Moses und Aron was premiered in 1954.
Struggling with the original biblical story and wrestling with its contradictions, Schoenberg was concerned that the audience would not grasp the extended diatribe by Moses of his brother’s love for craven images. In fact, his challenge was also that of Moses – how to translate a lofty, intellectual and abstract message without diluting or destroying it. In style, the work is severe and nearer to oratorio than opera. However, in its dramatic and bloodthirsty moments it matches anything in Puccini’s Turandot. A 12-tone Turandot, crossed with the fugal style found in the oratorios of Bach or Handel best describes this gritty, imposing, daunting 20th-century masterpiece.
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