Lars Woldt, Johannes Chum, Christel Loetzsch, Juliana Zara – Ullmann: Der Kaiser von Atlantis, Op. 49b “Die Tod-Verweigerung” (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 52:50 minutes | 576 MB | Genre: Classical
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Viktor Ullmann’s one-act chamber opera Der Kaiser von Atlantis was written in the Theresienstadt camp and did not see its premiere until December 16, 1975 in Amsterdam, since the performance had been banned after its dress rehearsal in 1944. The concert performance of the version by Henning Brauel and Andreas Krause (Schott), which took place on October 10, 2021 at the Prinzregententheater in Munich, was recorded for this release. Alongside the internationally renowned Austrian Kammersänger Adrian Eröd in the title role, mainly young performers sang, accompanied by the Münchner Rundfunkorchester conducted by Patrick Hahn, who made his debut here as the orchestra’s principal guest conductor.
Viktor Ullmann, born in 1898 in Teschen, Silesia, studied with Arnold Schönberg and Alois Hába in Vienna. He worked first as a bandmaster and then as a bookseller, and settled in Prague as a freelance artist in 1933. Because he came from a Jewish family, he was deported to the Theresienstadt camp by the Nazis in 1942. In October 1944 he was murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau, together with composers Pavel Haas and Hans Krása, who were almost the same age. Since the Nazis allowed a lively cultural life in their “showcase camp” of Theresienstadt, Ullmann was also able to be musically active. The intellectual and cultural heritage of that time is reflected in his music – also, and especially, in the “one-act play” that he wrote there entitled Der Kaiser von Atlantis oder Die Tod-Verweigerung (“The Emperor of Atlantis or the Disobedience of Death”), based on the libretto by his fellow prisoner Peter Kien.
Tracklist:
01. Lars Woldt – Hallo, hallo! (Live at Prinzregenten Theater, Munich 10/10/2021) (02:18)
02. Munich Radio Orchestra – Präludium (Live at Prinzregenten Theater, Munich 10/10/2021) (01:12)
03. Johannes Chum – Der Mond geht auf den Firsten (Live at Prinzregenten Theater, Munich 10/10/2021) (01:50)
04. Johannes Chum – Lass sein. Was singst du da? (Live at Prinzregenten Theater, Munich 10/10/2021) (00:43)
05. Johannes Chum – Tage, Tage, wer kauft Tage? (Live at Prinzregenten Theater, Munich 10/10/2021) (01:01)
06. Johannes Chum – Ich fuehle mich wenig wohl in meiner Haut (Live at Prinzregenten Theater, Munich 10/10/2021) (00:50)
07. Johannes Chum – Und was ist das? (Live at Prinzregenten Theater, Munich 10/10/2021) (00:48)
08. Tareq Nazmi – Es lächert mich, wenn ich dir zuhöre (Live at Prinzregenten Theater, Munich 10/10/2021) (00:33)
09. Tareq Nazmi – Das waren Kriege (Live at Prinzregenten Theater, Munich 10/10/2021) (01:56)
10. Christel Loetzsch – Hallo, hallo! Achtung, Achtung! (Live at Prinzregenten Theater, Munich 10/10/2021) (05:13)
11. Lars Woldt – Prosa (Live at Prinzregenten Theater, Munich 10/10/2021) (00:51)
12. Munich Radio Orchestra – Totentanz I (Live at Prinzregenten Theater, Munich 10/10/2021) (01:18)
13. Adrian Erod – Wie spät ist es? (Live at Prinzregenten Theater, Munich 10/10/2021) (04:58)
14. Adrian Erod – Wir, Overall, der Einzige (Live at Prinzregenten Theater, Munich 10/10/2021) (01:18)
15. Munich Radio Orchestra – Totentanz II (Live at Prinzregenten Theater, Munich 10/10/2021) (00:51)
16. Juliana Zara – Wer da? (Live at Prinzregenten Theater, Munich 10/10/2021) (02:19)
17. Juliana Zara – Ist’s wahr, dass es Landschaften gibt (Live at Prinzregenten Theater, Munich 10/10/2021) (01:02)
18. Juliana Zara – Komm fort von hier (Live at Prinzregenten Theater, Munich 10/10/2021) (01:50)
19. Juliana Zara – Schau, die Wolken sind vergangen (Live at Prinzregenten Theater, Munich 10/10/2021) (01:17)
20. Munich Radio Orchestra – Die lebenden Toten (Live at Prinzregenten Theater, Munich 10/10/2021) (01:38)
21. Lars Woldt – Prosa (Live at Prinzregenten Theater, Munich 10/10/2021) (01:22)
22. Adrian Erod – Hallo, hallo, der oberste General (Live at Prinzregenten Theater, Munich 10/10/2021) (00:50)
23. Juliana Zara – Wir sind um einen Kreuzer Süßes zum Kaufmann getrabt (Live at Prinzregenten Theater, Munich 10/10/2021) (02:33)
24. Adrian Erod – Hallo, Außenamt! (Live at Prinzregenten Theater, Munich 10/10/2021) (01:16)
25. Christel Loetzsch – Fünf, sechs, sieben, acht – Nicht dran denken (Live at Prinzregenten Theater, Munich 10/10/2021) (00:57)
26. Tareq Nazmi – Ich bin der Tod (Live at Prinzregenten Theater, Munich 10/10/2021) (02:46)
27. Adrian Erod – Der Krieg ist aus (Live at Prinzregenten Theater, Munich 10/10/2021) (06:20)
28. Juliana Zara – Komm Tod, du unser werter Gast (Live at Prinzregenten Theater, Munich 10/10/2021) (02:47)
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