Das Paradies Und Die Peri

Product Description "In his debut recording on LSO Live, Sir Simon Rattle conducts a stunning performance of Schumann's rarely recorded Das Paradies und die Peri featuring a superb line-up of soloists. Rattle is well-known for being a champion of this rarely-heard work, and yet this is the first audio recording he has made of it. Here it is brought to life by the LSO under his baton, and the starry line-up makes the best possible case for Schumann's great oratorio. Sir Simon Rattle says of the piece, 'It's the great masterpiece you've never heard, and there aren't many of those now... This is just something else, a complete anomaly if you think about it. In Schumann's life it was the most popular piece he ever wrote, it was performed endlessly. Every composer loved it. Wagner wrote how jealous he was that Schumann had done it and he'd stolen this subject that he wanted to do and how extraordinary it was... It was a playground for composers and the piece was extraordinary. Based on an episode from Thomas Moore's epic poem Lalla Rookh, itself inspired by exotic, colorful tales taken from Persian mythology, Writing about the work in a letter to a friend, Schumann said, 'at the moment I'm involved in a large project, the largest I've yet undertaken - it's not an opera - I believe it's well-nigh a new genre for the concert hall.' Conceived in three beautifully sequenced parts, it is unlike any oratorio of Schumann's day. Sustained melodic invention is clear throughout, with Peri's high C in the finale forming a deftly timed climax. Soprano Sally Matthews gives a soaring performance as Peri, showcasing Schumann's imaginative and emotive vocal writing, and there are superb supporting performances from Mark Padmore, Kate Royal, Bernarda Fink, Andrew Staples and Florian Boesch. Review "It deserves to be considered a real find: the high quality of the music and the very attractive vocal as well as instrumental writing combine to make it a piece that certainly does not deserve the obscurity into which it fell after Schumann's death (it was quite popular in his lifetime). It gets a handsome presentation, too, on the London Symphony Orchestra's LSO Live label: there are two very high-quality SACDs, an audio Blu-ray Disc, and an explanatory booklet that contains the complete libretto in German and English - altogether, a most welcome introduction to a work that very few listeners will ever have heard." --Infodad, November 5, 2015

Detalles del producto Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No Idioma : Inglés Dimensiones del producto : 5.59 x 5.1 x 1.01 pulgadas; 9.6 Onzas Fabricante : Lso Live Número de modelo del producto : 35223957 Fecha de lanzamiento original : 2015 Producto en Tienda desde : Septiembre 19, 2015 Etiqueta : Lso Live ASIN : B00WA8QSQA Número de discos : 2 Clasificación en los más vendidos de Amazon: nº331,990 en CDs y Vinilo (Ver el Top 100 en CDs y Vinilo) nº805 en Oratorio de Formas y Géneros Clásicos nº877 en Oratorios de Vocal Clásico y Ópera Opiniones de clientes: 4.3 de 5 estrellas 14 calificaciones Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No Idioma : Inglés Dimensiones del producto : 5.59 x 5.1 x 1.01 pulgadas; 9.6 Onzas Fabricante : Lso Live Número de modelo del producto : 35223957 Fecha de lanzamiento original : 2015 Producto en Tienda desde : Septiembre 19, 2015 Etiqueta : Lso Live ASIN : B00WA8QSQA Número de discos : 2