Julia Sophie Wagner - Flury: A Florentine Tragedy & The Death of Sappho (2019)

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Artist: Julia Sophie Wagner
Title: Flury: A Florentine Tragedy & The Death of Sappho
Year Of Release: 2019
Label: Toccata Classics
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks+booklet)
Total Time: 53:22 min
Total Size: 237 MB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

01. The Death of Sappho
02. A Florentine Tragedy: So langsam, Weib:
03. A Florentine Tragedy: Und doch, mein Fürst
04. A Florentine Tragedy: Prinz, man sagt
05. A Florentine Tragedy: Wie, wenn ich die weisse Bianca forderte:
06. A Florentine Tragedy: Was gibt es Neues, mein Prinz:
07. A Florentine Tragedy: Wie er gleich einem schalen Krämer spricht!
08. A Florentine Tragedy: Nicht doch, mein Prinz
09. A Florentine Tragedy: Was meint der Fleck hier auf dem Tuch:
10. A Florentine Tragedy: Hol' eine Fackel, Frau!
11. A Florentine Tragedy: Nimm, Heiland, meinen armen Geist zu dir!

The Swiss composer Richard Flury (1896–1967) felt the fascination for A Florentine Tragedy, Oscar Wilde’s drama of love and violence in Renaissance Italy, that also attracted his near-contemporary Alexander Zemlinsky: they set the same libretto. Flury responded to the text with this dark and swirling one-act verismo opera, sizzling with sexual tension, the vocal lines of the three characters unfolding over an orchestral texture remarkable for its plasticity and kaleidoscopic colour. It is preceded here by a dignified but impassioned operatic scena setting Grillparzer’s dramatic treatment of the suicide of the Greek poetess Sappho.

Julia Sophie Wagner, soprano (tracks 1-3, 5-11)
Long Long, tenor (tracks 2-11)
Daniel Ochoa, baritone (tracks 2-11)
Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra
Paul Mann, conductor

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