Franz Liszt: Sardanapalo – El Khoury, Hernández, Pushniak, Staatskapelle Weimar & Kirill Karabits

World premiere: First recording and first performance of Franz Liszt’s reconstructed Sardanapalo Franz Liszt never finished his mature opera Sardanapalo. Now 170 years old, the first act refracts the world of mid 19th-century opera through the prism of Liszt’s unmistakable voice. Kirill Karabits directs Liszt’s orchestra in Weimar where the music was composed, in a programme of burning, Byronic romanticism. The Sardanapalo manuscript comprises the first act. For 170 years the material lay dormant in the Goethe and Schiller archive in Weimar: it was only in 2017 that David Trippett deciphered, edited and orchestrated the manuscript at the University of Cambridge. FRANZ LISZT (1811-1886): SARDANAPALO Act I, Scenes 1-4, S. 687 (unfinished opera), edited and orchestrated by David Trippett Joyce El-Khoury, Mirra Airam Hernández, Sardanapalo Oleksandr Pushniak, Beleso Opera Chorus Nationaltheater Weimar Staatskapelle Weimar Kirill Karabits Scene I Preludio ‘Vieni! Risplendono festive faci’ (Chor) ‘Oh del tetto paterno’ (Mirra) ‘L’altera Ninive a te s’inchina’ (Chor) Scene II ‘Più lunga cura’ (Mirra) ‘Giù pel piano’ (Mirra) ‘Sogno vano’ (Mirra) ‘Ahi! Nell’ansio rapimento’ (Mirra) Scene III ‘Nella tua stanza’ (Sardanapalo / Mirra) ‘Parla! Parla!’ (Sardanapalo / Mirra) ‘Sotto il tuo sguardo’ (Sardanapalo / Mirra) Scene IV ‘Mentre a tuo danno’ (Beleso) ‘Se sol l’armi’ (Sardanapalo) ‘Oh perché, perché quel core’ (Mirra / Beleso) ‘Che far pensi?’ (Sardanapalo / Mirra / Beleso) ‘Diletta vergine’ (Sardanapalo / Mirra / Beleso) Allegro deciso recording: August 17 - 20, 2018 recording location: Congress Centrum Neue Weimarhalle A Co-Produktion with Deutschlandradio (P 2018 + © 2019 Deutschlandradio) recording / executive producer: Dipl.-Tonmeister Ludger Böckenhoff producer: Stefan Lang (Deutschlandfunk Kultur) sound and editing: Dipl.-Tonmeister Justus Beyer engineers: Dipl.-Tonmeister Clemens Deller & Dipl.-Tonmeister Lukas Kowalski cover: Eugène Delacroix: Female Nude, Killed from Behind (study to one of the figures in ‘The Death of Sardanapalus’) art direction and design: AB•Design P 2018 + © 2019 Ludger Böckenhoff play.audite.de/sardanapalo audite 97.764 EAN 4022143977649