V.A. - Georg Solti: Richard Strauss - Elektra (2CDs, 2017)
V.A. - Georg Solti: Richard Strauss - Elektra (2CDs, 2017)
Classical, Opera | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 273 Mb
Label: Decca
Classical, Opera | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 273 Mb
Label: Decca
Richard Strauss was filled with doubt as to whether he would be capable of expressing in music the crazed revenge of "Elektra" after writing his opera "Salome" with its shocking story. It is quite understandable that he had trouble in composing the work, although such difficulties are not in the least evident during the course of the drama or in the musical flow. Drawing on natural sources, the forceful melodies make use of polyphonic, complex motifs and extreme dissonances. Here and there, Strauss’s typical chordal harmonies gleam through, though hardly audible, taking the harsh dissonances and chromaticism to the very extremes of atonality.
Sir Georg Solti, whose outstanding Strauss interpretations constitute the focus of his life’s work, leads the enormous orchestra through the highly complex score and provides his singers with a powerful but finely chiselled sound. Birgit Nilsson personifies an icy-cold Elektra consumed with hatred, and her counterpart Regina Resnik as Clytemnestra is no less extreme in her role. Gerhard Stolze, one of the greatest singers of his time, masters the exhausting role of Aegistheus, and Tom Krause is highly convincing as the determined Orestes. The phenomenal acoustics of Vienna’s Sofiensaal provided an ideal recording venue, and the audible quality of the sung text is excellent – although the final bloodbath can scarcely be expressed in words.
V.A. - Georg Solti: Richard Strauss - Elektra (2CDs, 2017)
Tracklist:
CD1
1. Qo bleibt Elakra?
2. "Allein! When , ganz alien.
3. Elektra!
4. Tch knn richt sitzen und ins Dunkel starren
5. Es geht ein Larm los
6. Was wilst du? Seht doch dort!
7. Die Gotter! bist doch selber eine Gottin
8. Ich will nichts horen!
9. Ich habe keine guten Nachte.
10. Wenn das rechte Blutopfer unterm Beile fallt
11. Was bluten muB? Dein eigenes Genick
12. Was sagen Sie ihr denn?
CD2
1. Orest! Orest ist tot!
2. Platz da! Wer lungert so vor einer Tur?
3. Nun muB es hief von uns gescheln.
4. Du1 Du! Denn du bist stark! Wie stark du bist
5. Nun, deen allein!
6. Was willst due, fremder Mensch?
7. Elektra! Elektra!
8. Orest!
9. Du wirst es tun? Allein? Du armes kind?
10. Seid iohr von nnern
11. Ich habe ihm das Beil nicht geben konnen!
12. Es muss etwas geschelen sein
13. He! Lichter!
14. Elektra! Schwester!
15. Ob ich nihct hore
16 Horst du denn nicht
17. Schweig, and tanze
V.A. - Georg Solti: Richard Strauss - Elektra (2CDs, 2017)
