Georg Anton Benda: Medea

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Marcus Bosch’s direction is tautly phrased, very much a handmaid to the text as Benda directs. — Gramophone Magazine, June 2021 More…

Release Date: 19th Mar 2021
Catalogue No: COV92014
Label: Coviello
Length: 44 minutes

Opus Klassik

2021

Winner - Opera

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Benda, G: Medea

Work length44:08

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Katharina Thalbach (soloist)
Cappella Aquileila
Marcus Bosch

I, Eingang

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II, Erster Auftritt - "Vertrauter Wohnsitz!"

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III, Zweyter Auftritt - Marsch von ferne

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IV, Dritter Auftritt - "Wie er auf diesem Wagen thronte!"

Track length9:42

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V, Vierter Auftritt - "Kommt, meine Geliebten! Der Augenblick ist günstig."

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VI, Fünfter Auftritt - "O, meine Kinder!"

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VII, Sechster Auftritt - "Und das elendeste der geschaffnen Wesen!"

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VIII, Siebender Auftritt - "Wo bin ich?"

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IX, Achter Auftritt - "Jason!"

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In 1778 Mozart attested "astounding effectiveness" to the melodrama Medea (1775) of his contemporary Georg Anton Benda (1722-1795). Indeed, the combination of spoken texts with dramatic music unfolds a high emotional intensity here. Especially when a voice as incisive as that of the famous actress Katharina Thalbach unfolds a highly special emotional intensity. The fast, delicate interplay of text and music makes it possible to develop a conflict-laden and contradictory character psychogram with an unusual presence. Marcus Bosch and the cappella aquileia accompany this new discovery of classical music theatre with their usual precise and transparent sound.

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June 2021

Marcus Bosch’s direction is tautly phrased, very much a handmaid to the text as Benda directs.

July 2021

It represents an extraordinary tour de force by the veteran German actress Katharina Thalbach, who speaks, presumably authentically, not only the role of Medea but also the smaller ones that include her sons and Jason...At times it is almost too much, but the blood-curdling intensity of Thalbach’s reading of the role does not quickly leave the mind. The orchestral contribution under Marcus Bosch is finely judged and exceptionally well played.

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