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 Fantasia Chilena on Ars Produktion.

Charming salon music for piano from 3 unsung European composers.

With Santiago Heitz, Federico Guzmán and Guillermo Deichert, this album presents three of these globetrotters who have shaped Chile's national musical identity. As composers, they succeeded in creating their own musical style from elements of Chilean and European musical traditions.

https://elmuseocanario.com/coleccion-cds/

There is recording of the Stabat Mater on the Nibiru label which came out  in 2018.

Also, the Cello Concerto that Alan mentioned in an earlier post is also available coupled with two of Ryba's Violin Concertos on Cesky Label

Operní večer: Josef Bohuslav Foerster: Jessika
Komická opera o třech dějstvích podle Williama Shakespeara
V hlavních rolích: Zdenka Hrnčířová, Věra Krilová, Zdeněk Otava, Theodor Šrubař, Přemysl Kočí, Ladislav Mráz, Ivo Žídek a další. Spoluúčinkují Pěvecký sbor Československého rozhlasu v Praze a Symfonický orchestr Pražského rozhlasu, řídí Jaroslav Vogel. Historický, digitálně remasterovaný snímek z roku 1949, uvádíme k březnovému 120. výročí narození barytonisty Zdeňka Otavy. Spoluúčinkuje Martina Kolajová, připravil a hovoří Vojtěch Babka. (3 hrs.)

Based on Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.

On Czech Radio3 this Saturday night.

... and topical too!

Axiotis was born in Mariupol, in present-day Ukraine.

AXIOTIS, G.: Love Trilogy (A) / Sunset / Prelude and Fugue / Remembrance from a Ball (New Festival Opera-Symphony Sofia, Fidetzis)
Georgios Axiotis was a leading and historically significant Greek composer who was opposed to the 'Germanisation' of music education in Greece. His training in Naples led him to conceive of national music of a mediterranean quality related to the naturalism of Italian verismo. The works on this album are his most important and lasting contributions to Greek orchestral music. Axiotis possessed an exceptional instinct for balance and timbre and was a splendid orchestrator. The lyricism in these pieces exudes Greek late Romanticism, while his nature depictions are strongly atmospheric.

Forthcoming from Naxos. Interesting dates. Like Kalomiris or Samaras? I hope so!

How do other members react to this opera?

It's a chicken and egg situation. You don't judge the quality of the egg by the character of the chicken that produced it.

Thus, many operatic masterpieces failed at their first performances because of the inadequacy of the production e.g. La Traviata; Barber of Seville et al.

Strangely, no comments about the opera itself.

Personally, I loved it!

Did anyone record this? Colin? PLEASE!

Eugen Engel: Grete Minde - a late romantic opera of the 1920s on Deutschlandfunk Kultur Saturday night.

Opernbühne (Starts at 1805/1:05PM): Theater Magdeburg
Aufzeichnung vom 13.02.2022
Eugen Engel ,,Grete Minde" – Oper in drei Akten
Libretto von Hans Bodenstedt nach Theodor Fontanes gleichnamiger Novelle Uraufführung

Gerdt Minde – Marko Pantelić, Bariton
Trud Minde – Kristi Anna Isene, Sopran
Grete Minde – Raffaela Lintl, Sopran
Emerentz Zernitz – Jadwiga Postrożna, Mezzosopran
Valtin – Jonathan Winell, Tenor
Der alte Gigas – Paul Sketris, Bass
Peter Guntz – Johannes Stermann, Bass
Der Puppenspieler – Johannes Wollrab, Bariton
Der Hanswurst – Benjamin Lee, Tenor
Zenobia – Na'ama Shulman, Sopran
Die Domina – Karina Repova, Mezzosopran
Ein Wirt – Frank Heinrich, Bariton

Opernchor des Theaters Magdeburg
Magdeburgische Philharmonie
Leitung: Anna Skryleva (2 hrs., 55 min.)

Sounds interesting:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/14/holocaust-victims-opera-stored-for-years-in-trunk-gets-premiere-at-last

There is also a recording on Gega of motets by Nani , Bugeja  and Vassallo . The Cd is called Tenebrae and is also on Qobuz.

Qobuz has the Nani Shipwreck Mass and - my favourite - Isouard's Liturgy of St John plus a short Sinfonia.

For the opera tragics, Isouard's delightful opera Cendrillon is also available on a  2CD set from Albany ( and Qobuz).

I've got 7 CDs in the Gega collection of  Maltese Sacred Music including Masses and Sinfonias by Vassallo, Fremond, Bugeja and A. Nani together with shorter religious works by Galea, Fenech, Vella, Decesare`and P.Nani. Are they also available on Spotify?

Last year saw the release of a cornucopia of art songs in which I was totally and intimately immersed to the happy exclusion of you-know-what.
Here are my favourites:

Kricka: Northern Nights for Soprano & Orchestra on Supraphon.
Christian Fink (1831-1911); Songs and Piano works . 2 CD set on Haenssler Classic
Lysenko: 6 CD set of art songs on Ukrainian Canadian Opera Association

Honorable mentions too for Raff Lieder on Sterling; Bruch lieder on cpo and Urspruch on Kaleidos Musikeditionen