Flury: Die helle Nacht - Opera in Two Acts / Mann, Gärtnerplatz Chamber Choir, Göttinger Symphonie Orchester

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Label
Toccata
Release Date
November 19, 2021
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      FLURY, RICHARD
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Gottingen Symphony Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Gartnerplatz Kammerchor, Mann
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 19, 2021
    • UPC
      5060113445803
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      TOCC0580
    • LABEL
      Toccata
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical

Die helle Nacht (‘The Bright Night‘), the second opera by the Swiss composer Richard Flury (1896–1967), enjoyed only a single radio broadcast in 1935, the year of its completion, and then remained unheard until this recording. It is revealed as a passionate mixture of sexual jealousy, obsession and murderous revenge, until love and reason ultimately prevail. Flury responded with some of his most ardent music, poised between the late Romanticism of Richard Strauss and occasional more modernist touches that reveal an admiration for Alban Berg – with a further link to Vienna in Flury’s fondness for waltz rhythms.