on DVD and blue-ray www.amazon.de www.amazon.de Homage to Robert Schumann Live from the Frauenkirche Dresden conductor: Daniel Harding Staatskapelle Dresden MDR Rundfunkchor Leipzig Chorus Master: Howard Arman Markus Butter (Baritone) Soloists of the Dresdner Kreuzchor Ole Kottner (Soprano) Franz Lindner (Soprano) Sebastian Dominik Pfeifer (Alto) Vincent Hoppe (Alto) running time: 77mins 16:9 Robert Schumann (1810-1856) Overture to the Opera "Genoveva", Op. 81 Scherzo in G minor from the Symphony Fragment in C minor (1841) and "Abendmusik" in B flat minor (world premiere), both reconstructed by Joachim Draheim "Nachtlied" by Friedrich Hebbel for Choir and Orchestra, Op. 108 "Requiem für Mignon" from Goethe's "Wilhelm Meister" for Choir, Solo Voices and Orchestra, Op. 98b Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, "Rhenish", Op. 97 Between 1844 and 1859 Robert Schumann lived in Dresden where he composed a third of his complete work. Today's concert marks the 200th anniversary of Robert Schumann's birth and offers a welcome opportunity for Daniel Harding and the Staatskapelle Dresden to introduce three of the most impressive but now too rarely performed works from his Dresden period (Overture to Genoveva, Requiem für Mignon and Nachtlied). Particular highlights - which will come as a surprise even to connoisseurs of his works - are a first performance and a world premiere of rediscovered and reconstructed symphonic movements dating from the composer's legendary „symphony year" of 1841 ...
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