Stravinsky: Perséphone

Release Date: 28th Mar 2011
Catalogue No: AUDITE95619
Label: Audite
Length: 48 minutes

Stravinsky: Persephone (sung in German)

Work length48:53

Album only

Fritz Wunderlich (tenor), Doris Schade (narrator)
Stuttgart Choir of the South German Broadcast, South German Radio Choir, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hessen Radio Choir, Hessen Radio Symphony Orchestra, Schwanheimer Children's Choir
Dean Dixon

The Abduction of Persephone

Track length10:43

$3.00

$3.85

Persephone in the Underworld

Track length23:12

Album only

Persephone Reborn

Track length14:58

$3.00

$3.85

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Tenor legend Fritz Wunderlich and the great German actress Doris Schade in Stravinsky’s rarely performed lyrical melodrama – a unique document from 1960.

Fritz Wunderlich sings Stravinsky – a rare combination! Not only is the combination of singer and work an unusual one, but the work itself also is, and has always been, a rarely performed part of Stravinsky’s oeuvre. The part of Eumolpius, Greek for “he who sings beautifully”, in Igor Stravinsky’s Perséphone could have become Fritz Wunderlich’s calling card if he had sung it more than the once, in 1960, for the Hessische Rundfunk in Frankfurt am Main. Dean Dixon, who was the first Afro-American to become chief conductor of a German Radio Symphony Orchestra in the following year, had programmed this virtually unknown jewel by Stravinsky. The great German actress Doris Schade took on the speaking part of Perséphone. This lyrical melodrama, based on a text by André Gide, was written during Stravinsky’s neo-classical period, its subject matter being the ancient classical myth of death and re-birth. The rewarding tenor role of the priest live recording 1960

Eumolpius presents Fritz Wunderlich at the pinnacle of his art. This live recording of this rarely performed work is a unique document and closes a gap in the discographic legacy of the singer who died so prematurely.

Stravinsky: Perséphone

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