Helmut Lachenmann: Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern (2CD) 【ECM】

Concertante recording of Helmut Lachenmann's groundbreaking opera, and the first to feature the revised version,the so-called “Tokyo-Fassung” which the composernow regards as definitive. The opera, while loosely based on Hans Christian Anderson's fairytale is not a work that admits of a single “meaning”, its plotline is multiple and diffuse, but an undercurrent of social criticism is implied as Lachenmann views the pauper (The Little Match Girl), the terrorist (Gudrun Ensslin)and the visionary artist (Da Vinci) all as outsiders, figures on the fringes of society, driven to the margins by circumstances and by society's coldness, and, in consequence, playing with fire in their responses. Coldness, figuratively and literally, is one of the opera's subjects. Extreme cold and burning desire, as attitudes and conditions, counterpoint each other in the music. The action evolves through the suggestibility of the sounds which Lachenmann deploys like no one else and with a poetry all his own. “Not only is ‘The Little Match Girl’ by far the biggest work of one of Europe's most esteemed composers, but it magnifies the qualities of strangeness and intensity, of huge but frustrated power, that have given him his reputation” - Paul Griffiths, The New York Times.

Eiko Morikawa - Sopran
Nicole Tibbels - Sopran
Helmut Lachenmann - Sprecher ("Zwei Gefühle")
Mayumi Miyata - shô
Yukiko Sugawara - Klavier
Tomoko Hemmi - Klavier
Experimentalstudio der Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung des SWR - Elektronische Realisation
André Richard - Klangregie
SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart 
SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg 
Matthias Hermann - Musikalische Einstudierung
Sylvain Cambreling - Leitung

【曲目】
＜CD 1＞
Teil 1: Auf der Strasse
01. Choralvorspiel "Oh, du fröhliche"
02. "In dieser Kälte"
03. "Frier-Arie" (1. Teil)
04. Trio und Reprise ("Frier-Arie" 2. Teil)
05. Scherzo I ("Königin der Nacht")
06. Scherzo II ("Schnalz-Arie" - "Stille Nacht")
07. "Zwei Wagen"
08. "Die Jagd"
09. "Schneeflocken"
10. "Aus allen Fenstern"

Teil 2: An der Hauswand
11. Hauswand 1 ("In einem Winkel")
12. Ritsch 1 ("Ofen")
13. Hauswand 2 ("Da erlosch")
14. Hauswand 3 ("Litanei")
15. "Schreibt auf unsere Haut"
16. Ritsch 3

＜CD 2＞
Teil 2: An der Hauswand
01. Ritsch 3
02. Kaufladen
03. "Die Weihnachtslieder stiegen höher"
04. Abendsegen ("Wenn ein Stern fällt")
05. "...zwei Gefühle..." Musik mit Leonardo
06. Hauswand 4
07. Ritsch 4
08. Die Großmutter
09. "Nimm mich mit"
10. Himmelfahrt ("In Glanz und Freude")
11. Shô ("Sie waren bei Gott")
12. Epilog ("Aber in der kalten Morgenstunde")

Total duration: 94:14

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編號：ECM1858-59
條碼：0028947612834