Notes and Editorial Reviews
PENTATONE presents Telemann’s rarely-performed opera Miriways (1728) with a stellar cast and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin conducted by Bernard Labadie. Star vocalists such as Andre Morsch (Miriways), Robin Johannsen (Sophi), Sophie Karthäuser (Bemira), Lydia Teuscher (Nisibis) and Michael Nagy (Murzah) offer a string of beautiful baroque arias and scenes in this German-language opera. Miriways is a piece about love, duty and truthfulness, and was based on recent political events in Afghanistan and Persia that actually made headlines in European newspapers, demonstrating the eighteenth-century fascination for the Orient. The opera was recorded live during the Telemann Festival Hamburg in 2017. The Akademie für Alte Musik
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is generally seen as one of the best period-instruments ensembles of today, and has a substantial PENTATONE discography, including CANTATA with Bejun Mehta (2018), as well as Handel’s Concerti grossi op. 6 (released in 2019 and 2020). Robin Johannsen featured on Handel’s Parnasso in festa (2017). Andre Morsch, Sophie Karthäuser, Lydia Teuscher, Michael Nagy and Bernard Labadie make their PENTATONE debut. Read less
Works on This Recording
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Miriways by Georg Philipp Telemann
Performer:
Dominik Köninger (Baritone),
Anett Fritsch (Soprano),
Marie-Claude Chappuis (Mezzo-soprano),
Lydia Teuscher (Soprano),
André Morsch (Baritone),
Robin Johannsen (Soprano),
Sophie Karthäuser (Soprano),
Michael Nagy (Baritone),
Paul McNamara (Tenor)
Conductor:
Bernard Labadie
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Academy For Early Music Berlin
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