Name: Lunea
Brand: Heinz Holliger

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

4856322

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Discs

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-04-29

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

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Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

028948563227

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2 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Heinz Holliger

Genre GB

Modern Composition

Label GB

Heinz Holliger's "dream opera" <i>Lunea</i> which was premiered, to great acclaim, at Opernhaus Zurich, interweaves strands from the life and mind of Nikolaus Franz Niembsch (1802-1850), the Hungarian-born Austrian poet who wrote under the name Nikolaus Lenau. Lenau's last, fragmentary writings have fired Holliger's imagination and led to the creation of an intricately inventive work with a marvellously evocative lead role for baritone Christian Gerhaher. Neue Zürcher Zeitung: "Here Gerhaher can display his full sensitivity in dealing with the nest nuances of language and bring to bear his almost unlimited spectrum of tonal-dynamic gradations in the intonation. The poet Lenau speaks most directly from the sounds and notes..."

The 2-CD set, in slipcase, is accompanied by an an extensive 120 page German- English booklet with the full libretto by Händl Klaus and synopses of each of the opera's 23 scenes, as well as a liner essay by Roman Brotbeck, a performer's note by Christian Gerhaher, score fragments, performance photography, and more.

Lunea

Music GB