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Wellesz: Die Bakchantinnen. (Opera And Oratorio).(Egon Wellesz)(Sound Recording Review)
[] Alexander, Barainsky; Mohr, Aschenbach, Burr, Stamm; Berlin Radio Choir, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Albrecht. German libretto only Orfeo C 136012 H (2)
One is unlikely to see a staged production of Egon Wellesz's Die Bakchantinnen, though not because the score is ineffective or unattractive. Indeed, this operatic adaptation of Euripides's The Bacchae is dramatically potent and often ravishingly beautiful. The trouble is that the chorus plays an equal role to the soloists, so it's definitely not the kind of star vehicle that is sure to sell tickets. Combine that with the large orchestral and choral forces required, factor in the music's complexity, and you have a particularly expensive proposition.
Die Bakchantinnen was the fifth of Wellesz's six operas. It had an auspicious premiere in 1931 at the Vienna State Opera under the musical direction of Clemens Krauss. Wellesz (1885-1974) studied privately under Schoenberg, though his style--at least in this work--seems quite far removed from the Second Viennese School, being closer in spirit to Strauss's Elektra. The clarity of the text-setting reflects Wellesz's scholarly interest in early Baroque opera, and his study of Byzantine chant is also put to good ...
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...Friedrich Schorr, Ignaz Friedman, Richard Beer Hofmann, Egon Wellesz, Jacob Wasserman. Every summer the whole household, with...taken back to Switzerland for a Russian Orthodox funeral. Egon Wellesz escaped to England, becoming Professor of Music at Oxford...
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- Magazine article from: Notes Benser, Caroline Cepin December 1, 1998 700+ words
...who early on declared him a genius; and others such as Egon Wellesz, Franz Schreker, and Alexander Zemlinsky. Zemlinsky...environments. Some had a more difficult time of it than others. Egon Wellesz, who settled into academic life in Oxford after being uprooted...
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- Reference information from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera JOHN WARRACK and EWAN WEST January 1, 1996 700+ words
...on Alkestis (1924); later he turned to Goethe for Scherz , List und Rache (1928) before returning to antiquity for Die Bakchantinnen (1931). Forced to leave Austria in 1938, he settled in Oxford, where he became Reader in Byzantine Music in 1951...
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- Reference information from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE January 1, 1996 700+ words
...1924–5); Scherz, List, und Rache (Joke, Cunning, and Revenge), Op.41 (1926–7); Die Bakchantinnen (The Bacchantes), Op.44 (1929–30); Incognita (1951).BALLETS: Persisches Ballett (Persian Ballet...
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- Magazine article from: Notes Markovic-Stokes, Katarina March 1, 2007 700+ words
...conducting scores dating between 1903 and 1911, which belonged to or were used by not only Mahler, but also Willem Mengelberg, Egon Wellesz, and Bruno Walter, it is extremely difficult to reconstruct and establish the hierarchy among these sources. In his introductory...
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- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) April 26, 2006 700+ words
...Hitler refugees faced hostility from establishment racists such as Quilter and exclusion from the mainstream. The names of Egon Wellesz, Hans Gal, Franz Reizenstein, Roberto Gerhard, Matyas Seiber and Berthold Goldschmidt are notably absent from The newcomers...
- Memorial Book for the Victims of National Socialism at the University of Vienna...
- Newspaper article from: Economics Week July 17, 2009 700+ words
...victims were the psychoanalyst Bruno Bettelheim, the writer Stefan Zweig, the psychologist Charlotte Buhler, the composer Egon Wellesz and the jurist and later prime minister Bruno Kreisky. This memorial book is not complete; rather, it should be regarded...
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- Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México) September 5, 2003 700+ words
...Boulez -considerado su "discpulo"- frente a la Orquesta Filarmnica de Viena, as como la pera Die Backchantinnen, de Egon Wellesz (1885-1974) que de acuerdo con Ruzicka, las restricciones de presupuesto le impidieron motar con vestuario y escenografa...
