Dutch National Opera / Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra / Marc Albrecht
Elektra (Live 2011)
- Type SACD hybrid
- Label Challenge Classics
- UPC 0608917256529
- Catalog number CC 72565
- Release date 26 October 2012
About the album
"Elektra - Tragödie in einem Aufzuge" - with the libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal had its world premiere on January 25th 1909 in the Hofoper in Dresden. The performances of "Elektra" which were used for this cd production were made in november 2011 in the Amsterdam Muziektheatre with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, the Toonkunst Choir Amsterdam and soloists all conducted by Marc Albrecht.
Elektra lives in a no-man’s-land – a region inhabited by no one else. It is for this very reason that she occupies this region with unwavering determination, for only here can she validate the essence of her being: contradiction. She is at one and the same time nobody and more than everyone else; she lives here, but she is in fact also dead. She remains at the place of her youth, but never sets foot in her family home. With all these discrepancies, she is the embodiment of contradiction, in two senses: as contradiction in and of itself and in relation to the outside world, against everything and everyone, everywhere and always. The scene of this contradiction is the threshold, where she continuously dwells and which is not an actual place or, better said, is a non-place, a no-man’s-land. (written by Willy Decker)
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11Wo bleibt Elektra?
06:24 -
12Allein! Weh, ganz allein
09:40 -
13Elektra!
02:23 -
14Ich kann nicht sitzen und ins Dunkel starren
08:39 -
15Was willst du! Seht doch, dort!
04:34 -
16Ich will nichts hören!
05:01 -
17Ich habe keine guten Nächte
06:28 -
18Wenn das rechte Blutopfer unterm Beile fällt
04:27 -
19Was bluten muß?
02:13 -
110Lichter!
01:44 -
111Orest! Orest ist tot!
03:05 -
112Platz da!
02:59 -
113Wie stark du bist!
04:45 -
21Nun denn, allein!
01:21 -
22Was willst du, fremder Mensch?
06:47 -
23Wer bist denn du?
02:08 -
24Orest!
08:55 -
25Du wirst es tun? Allein?
03:07 -
26Ich habe ihm das Beil nicht geben können!
02:25 -
27He! Lichter! Lichter!
04:10 -
28Helft! Mörder!
01:14 -
29Elektra! Schwester!
03:28 -
210Wir sind bei den Göttern
03:43 -
211Schweig', und tanze
02:16 -
212Applause
00:47
Comments
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Kevin Mulder
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The CD will be released on November 9th.
Challenge Records Int.