Mayr: Le due duchesse

Simon Mayr Chorus;
Concerto de Bassus;
Hauk, Franz

8.660422-23

Eun-Hye Choi, Tina Marie Herbert and Anna Feith, Sopranos • Young-Jun Ahn, Markus Schäfer, Jörn Lindemann and Harald Thum, Tenors • Samuel Hasselhorn, Baritone • Jaegyeong Jo, Niklas Mallmann and Andreas Mattersberger, Basses • Members of the Bavarian State Opera Chorus • As one of the leading operatic composers of his generation, Johann Simon Mayr nurtured a fascination with the chivalric stories of medieval England. Le due duchesse, an opera semiseria with buffa elements, is set during the reign of the 10th-century King Edgar. Huntsmen’s and Knights’ choruses and troubadour-like songs give great vivacity to a score that is both lyrical and dramatic. Mayr’s compound of Viennese Classicism and Italianate melodic beauty, allied to his ambitious writing and a skilful libretto, produced an important and influential opera couched in his own unmistakable idiom.

CD x 2

Muzyka klasyczna

Naxos

05-05-2020

0730099042277