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Nicolae Bretan - Golem & Arald
Жанр: Opera
Страна-производитель диска: US / UK
Год издания диска: 1995
Издатель (лейбл): Nimbus Records
Номер по каталогу: NI 5424
Дата записи: 1987
Аудиокодек: APE
Тип рипа: image+.cue
Битрейт аудио: lossless
Продолжительность: 73'18
Источник: собственный рип
Наличие сканов в содержимом раздачи: да

Golem

1. Introduction
2. Leave me alone, Golem, leave me!
3. I looked deep into her eyes...
4. I cannot change you into a man
5. I formed you of clay...
6. Under the earth, you do not feel the cold.
7. Did you call me?
8. No! I won't tear it out!
9. Why don't you give me that talisman?
10. Peace to you, dream of the human mind.

Nicolae Bretan - Golem Lásadása
Opera in One Act
World Premiere Recording
Tamás Daróczy (Tenor)
Alexandru Agache (Baritone)
Sanda Sandru (Soprano),
Dan Zancu (Bass)
Philharmonic Orchestra Moldava, Iasi
Cristian Mandeal (Conductor)
Language: Romanian
Arald

11. Arald on his charger sweeps...
12. To you, O timeless Seer, across the world I ride...
13. You were still but a child
14. My people ceased their march...
15. Out of the heart of earth let man the dead awake..
16. Come, Arald, your sweet brow against my bosom lean...
17. Interlude
18. Lost of all eternity within the tomb's constraint.

Nicolae Bretan - Arald
Opera in One Act
World Premiere Recording
Tamás Daróczy (Tenor)
Alexandru Agache (Baritone)
Sanda Sandru (Soprano),
Dan Zancu (Bass)
Ionel Voineag (Tenor),
Philharmonic Orchestra Moldava, Iasi
Cristian Mandeal (Conductor)
Language: Romanian

Код:

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Reviewing what is arguably Bretan’s masterpiece, the full-length opera Horia (Horia: http://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4442966 ), I was deeply impressed by the power of the dramatic writing while at the same time he retained his very personal melodic language - truthful, tonal and expressive - just as in his songs (Requiem & Sacred Songs: http://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4351476 ).
I still regard Horia as a landmark work in the history of opera for its humanity and struggle for freedom.
Unfortunately it is let down by a fair amount of less than attractive singing - though the commitment is never in question - and the recording - live from stage performance with intrusive noises and in monaural sound only.
The present disc, juxtaposing two one-act operas, is a great improvement.
It is in good stereo, albeit analogue, made under studio conditions and the singing is in a different class.
The operas in themselves are as fascinating as Horia, but from different points of view.
The theme of humanity is however omnipresent.
In Golem, Rabbi Löw has created Golem out of clay.
When the opera begins he is worried about Anna, his grand-daughter, who is dying.
It is only Golem who knows what is wrong with her.
Golem is in love with Anna, he has touched her and kissed her and it is sure death for a human to have any contact with a man of clay.
Golem tells Löw this and wants Anna as his bride and so demands from Löw, his creator, the power to procreate.
To save Anna, Löw has to kill Golem.
What is fascinating about the opera, which is based on a drama by Illés Kacér, is that Golem, who was created by Löw in defiance of God, is the most human of the characters.
It is his feelings, his sufferings that permeate the score and there is a warmth and a melodic beauty in the long solos he has to sing.
Alexandru Agache in the title role is superb, singing with great feeling and impeccable legato.
His is a glorious voice, powerful, beautiful and youthful.
Tamás Daróczy is an acceptable Rabbi Löw but Sandra Sandru has her shrill moments.
Dan Zancu, whose black bass was one of the assets of the Horia recording, has little to sing but does it well.
The final trio, after Golem has died, recalls the finale of Gounod’s Faust - whether intentionally or not.
Arald also deals with life and death, but here we are already in the underworld and the characters have already passed away.
The Poet tells of Arald who is searching for the Seer, who has the power to work miracles.
Arald comes and lays the body of his beloved Maria at the feet of the Seer, begging him to bring Maria back to life.
The Seer offers Arald a drink, which transforms him into a ghost and Maria is restored to life.
They sing an ecstatic love duet together but as day breaks they are swallowed by the earth.
The Seer, by death forgot, laments his own eternity.
This is a variant on the Orpheus myth.
As in Golem Nicolae Bretan wrote his own libretto, this time based on Mihai Eminescu’s poem "The Ghost".
There is little drama in the shape of dialogue; instead the short opera is a sequence of ’arias’ - all of great beauty - and the above mentioned duet.
The music has an otherworldly serenity which doesn’t exclude passion and dramatic intensity and most of the singing is on an exalted level.
Dan Zancu’s Poet is noble, Jonel Voineag as Arald is a splendid lirico spinto tenor, singing with glow and Alexandru Agache as the Seer is again superb as the Seer with a flow of noble melodious solo singing.
Several of the themes stuck at first hearing and I went round humming them for hours.
Sandra Sandru is more at ease as Maria than she was as Anna in Golem and the orchestra play well under the inspired baton of Cristian Mandeal.