Werner Gura - Schumann Szenen aus Goethes Faust Royal Concertgebouw OrchestraHar

Description: Home About Us Postage & Payment Returns Contact Add The Pom Shop to your Favorites and receive our email newsletters about new items and special promotions. General Interest Werner Gura - Schumann: Szenen aus Goethes Faust (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Harnoncourt) Our product to treat is a regular product. There is not the imitation. From Japan by the surface mail because is sent out, take it until arrival as 7-14 day. Thank you for you seeing it. Review Schumanns setting of the mighty metaphysical treatise that is Goethes Faust has been largely neglected on disc. Surprisingly so, given that the few recordings it has prompted have all had something of interest to say about this large-scale oratorio with decidedly operatic leanings. Nikolaus Harnoncourts ravishing new account proves a lithe and lyrically rich labour of love following in the footsteps of well-received studio accounts of Schumanns earlier oratorio Das Paradies und die Peri and his only opera, Genoveva. Recorded live last April in Amsterdams Concertgebouw, it balances intimacy and scale, philosophy and poetry, soaring melodies and searing, soulful drama to wholly persuasive effect. A concern for beauty of expression is the glue that holds everything together, the sense of the spiritual that results matching Benjamin Brittens deeply felt Aldeburgh performance (released by Decca to mark his 60th birthday in 1973), and is subtly inked in by Harnoncourts signature sense of refined elegance. Not as lively as Bernard Klees 1982 EMI account, which emphatically stresses the operatic scale of the first two parts, the soloists here not least the vividly idiomatic Faust of Christian Gerhaher in a performance to match Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau on the two earlier recordings and the fresh, vital Gretchen of Christiane Iven root the narrative thread in flesh-and-blood believability. Harnoncourt is clearly at ease with the stylistic tensions of the piece, the first two parts (portraits of Gretchen and Faust) composed in 1844 in Leipzig and owing much to Mendelssohn, the concluding section, setting Goethes mystical finale, following five years later in Wagner-dominated Dresden. Adroitly blending discourse and drama, Harnoncourt marshals superbly characterised playing from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra to frame no less striking contributions from his singers. Theres strong vocal support in depth in the shape of Werner Gras Ariel, Mojca Erdmanns Marthe and the scene-stealing Mephistopheles of Alistair Miles. The Netherlands Radio and Childrens choirs add glowing underpinning of their own while their orchestral colleagues clearly relish the seamless marriage of the prosaic and the sublime with never a hint of getting carried away, as the Berlin Philharmonic has a tendency to do on Claudio Abbados 1995 recording for Sony. --Michael Quinn This link will take you off in a new window Shipping Shipping is free for all customers in Australia. Your package will be safely taken care of & posted from England by means of Priority Airmail, which is air freighted to your nearest Australia Post Distribution Center (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, or Perth), from where they are delivered to your address by Australia Post. Returns and refunds We operate a 30 day money back guarantee. If you are unhappy with the product for whatever reason, please contact us to arrange a return and refund. As shipping costs are not retrievable, we are unable to refund shipping costs. Feedback We use an automated eBay feedback response system. If you are happy with the product, please leave positive feedback and we will automatically leave positive feedback for you. If you are unhappy with the transaction for any reason, please contact us first to resolve. If you do leave negative or neutral feedback you waive your rights for support regarding any problems with us and open yourself up for possible retaliatory negative feedback. Please avoid making negative feedback remarks, contact us first if you have any problems! We are here to help! Contact Us Please contact us via eBay messages if you have any questions and our Customer Service team will be happy to assist you with any queries. Thank you. Home About Us Postage & Payment Returns Contact Copyright © 2017 - 2024 The Pom Shop. All rights reserved.

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