Schreker - Der Schatzgraber
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Label: Challenge Classics
Cat No: CC72927
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 28th October 2022
Contents
Artists
Tijl FaveytsManuela Uhl
Raymond Very
Grahan Clark
Chorus of Dutch National Opera
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
Marc AlbrechtWorks
Der SchatzgraberArtists
Tijl FaveytsManuela Uhl
Raymond Very
Grahan Clark
Chorus of Dutch National Opera
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
Marc AlbrechtAbout
Austrian composer Franz Schreker (1878-1934) was born in Monaco and grew up during travels across half of Europe and, after the early death of hisfather, the family moved to Vienna (1888) where in 1892, with the help of a scholarship, Schreker entered the Vienna Conservatory. Starting with violin studies, with Sigismund Bachrich and Arnold Rosé, he moved into the composition class of Robert Fuchs, graduating as a composer in 1900.
Schreker is well known for his operas and wrote the libretto and composed his opera Der Schatzgräber after the great success of Der ferne Klang (1912) and Die Gezeichneten (1918). Der Schatzgräber, questioning the value of materialism versus love, was to prove particularly powerful in post-war Europe. After the Frankfurt premiere in January 1920, productions popped up in major cities across the continent and Schreker became oneof the most performed composers of his generation. While his biggest competition Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal had pursued a similar path in the overtly Wagnerian Die Frau ohne Schatten – which opened in Vienna on 10 October 1919 – their 'last Romantic opera' lacked Schreker's allegorical punch. Strauss retreated further into Gemütlichkeit, while Schreker continued to wrestle with the dilemma of being an artist in the modern world.
Cast:
- Der König: Tijl Faveyts
- Els: Manuela Uhl
- Elis: Raymond Very
- Der Narr: Grahan Clark
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