Mendelssohn - Antigone
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Label: MDR
Cat No: MDR1202
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 1st October 2012
Contents
Artists
Dominique HorwitzAnna Franziska Srna
Anne Berg
Nikolaus Okonkwo
Thilo Pruckner
Simon Zigah
MDR Leipzig Radio Choir
MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Jun MarklWorks
Antigone, op.55Artists
Dominique HorwitzAnna Franziska Srna
Anne Berg
Nikolaus Okonkwo
Thilo Pruckner
Simon Zigah
MDR Leipzig Radio Choir
MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Jun MarklAbout
Setting Sophocles’s tragedy to music was a fairly easy matter for Mendelssohn, his perfect knowledge of Ancient Greek making strict adherence to the classical metres no compositional obstacle for him. He enthusiastically wrote to his friend the historian Johann Gustav Droysen in 1841 “The mood and verse rhythms are so truly musical throughout that I do not need to consider the individual worlds and only have to set those moods and rythms to music, then the chorus is ready”.
The recording is based on a text version which impressively elucidates Mendelssohn’s approach to the dramatic genre. It was derived from Johann Jakob Christian Donner’s translations of Sophocles by Gerhard Lobling, dramatic producer of the MDR Concerts and initiator of the concert.
Live recording of the concert on 11 January 2009 in Main Auditorium of the New Gewandhaus in Leipzig.
Booklet: German, English, 36 pp
Total time : 79’58”
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