Hindemith: Cardillac Juliane Banse, Markus Eiche, Torsten Kerl, J.H. Rootering, Prager Philharmoischer Chor, Münchner Rundfunkorchester & Stefan Soltész

• Paul Hindemith (1895 - 1963): I. AKT. Nr. 1 Vorspiel zum 1. Bild:
• 1Hindemith: I. AKT. Nr. 1 Vorspiel zum 1. Bild02:02
• 1. Bild (Chor):
• 2Hindemith: 1. Bild (Chor)03:55
• Nr. 2 Szene mit Chor:
• 3Hindemith: Nr. 2 Szene mit Chor03:56
• Nr. 3 Szene zu Zweien:
• 4Hindemith: Nr. 3 Szene zu Zweien04:32
• Nr. 4 Arie:
• 5Hindemith: Nr. 4 Arie02:45
• 2. Bild. Nr. 5 Lied:
• 6Hindemith: 2. Bild. Nr. 5 Lied04:29
• Nr. 6 Pantomime:
• 7Hindemith: Nr. 6 Pantomime04:42
• II. AKT. Nr. 7 Arioso und Duett:
• 8Hindemith: II. AKT. Nr. 7 Arioso und Duett06:05
• Nr.8 Arie mit konzertierenden Instrumenten:
• 9Hindemith: Nr.8 Arie mit konzertierenden Instrumenten03:45
• Nr. 9 Duett:
• 10Hindemith: Nr. 9 Duett03:09
• Nr. 10 Duett:
• 11Hindemith: Nr. 10 Duett06:05
• Nr. 11 Szene:
• 12Hindemith: Nr. 11 Szene04:22
• Nr. 12 Duett:
• 13Hindemith: Nr. 12 Duett06:53
• Nr. 13 Arie:
• 14Hindemith: Nr. 13 Arie03:56
• III. Akt. Nr. 14 Musik in der Taverne und Ariette:
• 15Hindemith: III. Akt. Nr. 14 Musik in der Taverne und Ariette04:04
• Nr. 15 Szene und Quartett:
• 16Hindemith: Nr. 15 Szene und Quartett05:38
• Nr. 16 Duett mit Chor:
• 17Hindemith: Nr. 16 Duett mit Chor05:06
• Nr. 17 Wechselgesang. Variationen:
• 18Hindemith: Nr. 17 Wechselgesang. Variationen07:18
• Nr. 18 Schlußgesang:
• 19Hindemith: Nr. 18 Schlußgesang07:40
• Total Runtime01:30:22

Info for Hindemith: Cardillac

BR-KLASSIK presents the live recording of a concert performance of Hindemith's opera "Cardillac" from the Prinzregententheater in Munich on 13 October 2013 in memory of the great conductor Stefan Soltész. Soltész had died unexpectedly on 22 July 2022, exactly one year ago, after collapsing while conducting Richard Strauss' "Die schweigsame Frau" at the Munich National Theatre. The Hungarian-born Austrian conductor was General Music Director of the Essen Philharmonic and Artistic Director of the Essen Aalto Music Theatre from 1997 to 2013. Both institutions were decisively shaped by him and received several awards during his era. He was a welcome guest conductor with the Munich Cultural Orchestras. In addition to the standard works from Mozart to Strauss, an important focus of his opera repertoire was classical modernism. Paul Hindemith's three-act opera "Cardillac", composed in 1925/26, was the composer's long-awaited first full-length stage work. The material was E. T. A. Hoffmann's novella "Das Fräulein von Scuderi", from which his librettist Ferdinand Lion created a large-scale opera in which only the person of the goldsmith Cardillac came to the fore and his madness that leads him to murder. Instead of a stringent plot, there were individual, self-contained scenes in the sense of isolated snapshots. The premiere took place on 9 November 1926 at the Dresden State Opera under the direction of Fritz Busch, who thus spectacularly continued his series of important world premieres. Although the radical design of the opera was perceived as alien, it was nevertheless well received. After 1933, the work disappeared from German-language repertoires, but it returned promptly in 1946. Hindemith undertook a fundamental revision, which was premiered in Zurich in 1952 - combined with a performance ban on the first version. But as early as 1960, the release of the 1926 version was achieved, which was subsequently to supplant the revision almost completely. The present recording also reproduces the first version of the opera. The concert performance on 13 October 2013 from the Prinzregententheater featured internationally renowned soloists such as Markus Eiche as Cardillac, Juliane Banse as his daughter and others. The Prague Philharmonic Choir sang. Stefan Soltész conducted the Munich Radio Orchestra. The audience was just as impressed as the specialist press. The haunting interpretation of Hindemith's "Cardillac" also makes an impression in the live recording on two albums.

Juliane Banse, soprano
Michaela Selinger, soprano
Torsten Kerl, tenor
Oliver Ringelhahn, tenor
Jan-Hendrik Rootering, bass
Kay Stiefermann, bass
Prague Philharmonic Choir
Munich Radio Orchestra
Stefan Soltesz, conductor

Stefan Soltész
Austrian conductor of Hungarian origin, studied conducting with Hans Swarowsky as well as composition and piano at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts, conducted numerous world premieres there and corrected at the Vienna State Opera. After working as a conductor at the Theater an der Wien and in Graz and as assistant to Karl Böhm, Christoph von Dohnányi and Herbert von Karajan at the Salzburg Festival, he was permanent conductor of the Hamburg State Opera from 1983 to 1985 and held the same position at the Deutsche Oper Berlin from 1985 to 1997. He served as General Music Director at the Braunschweig State Theatre from 1988 to 1993, where he is now Honorary Conductor. From 1992 to 1997 he held the position of chief conductor of the Flemish Opera Antwerp/Ghent. From 1997 to 2013 he led the Essen Philharmonic and the Aalto Music Theatre in a dual capacity as general music director and artistic director, an era accompanied by numerous prizes and honours. Stefan Soltész regularly conducts at the Vienna State Opera as well as at Germany's major opera houses, including the state operas in Munich, Berlin and Dresden, the opera houses of Cologne and Frankfurt and the Komische Oper Berlin. In recent years he has made guest appearances at the Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam, the Roman Opera, the Budapest State Opera, the Teatr Wielki Warsaw, Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre, the Grand Théâtre de Genève, the New National Theatre in Tokyo as well as at the festivals in Glyndebourne, Savonlinna, Taipei (Taiwan) and Tongyeong (Korea), at the Richard Strauss Festival in Garmisch and the Whitsun Festival in Baden-Baden. Stefan Soltész has conducted symphony concerts and radio recordings in Munich, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Hanover, Dresden, Berlin, Vienna, Rome, Catania, Milan, Genoa, Basel, Bern, Paris, Moscow, Budapest, Nagoya and Palermo. His CD recording of Alban Berg's "Lulu Suite" and Hans Werner Henze's "Appassionatamente plus" with the Essen Philharmonic was nominated for the Grammy and the ICMA. Live recordings of Strauss' "Salome" and Boito's "Mefistofele" at the Whitsun Festival Baden-Baden as well as Debussy's "Pelléas et Mélisande" from the Aalto Theatre Essen are available on DVD. In addition to numerous other awards, Stefan Soltész was awarded the title of professor honoris causa by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. In the 2019/20 season he will take over the musical direction for "Les Huguenots/Die Hugenotten".

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