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| ARTIST: | Alexandru Agache, Dan Zancu, Nicolae Bretan, Cristian Mandeal, Iasi 'Moldova' Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, Moldova Philharmonic Orchestra, Sanda Sandru, Ionel Voineag, Tamas Daroczy |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Nimbus Records |
| TYPE: | Miscellaneous Vocal Music, Vocal, Classical Music, Miscellaneous Music, Classical, Opera, Opera/Operetta |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Golem: Intro - PO Moldova, Iasi/Cristian Mandeal, Golem: Leave Me Alone, Golem, Leave Me! - Alexandru Agache, Golem: I Looked Deep Into Her Eyes... - Alexandru Agache, Golem: I Cannot Change You Into A Man - Tamas Daroczy, Golem: I Formed You Of Clay... - Tamas Daroczy, Golem: Under The Earth, You Do Not Feel The Cold - Alexandru Agache, Golem: Did You Call Me? - Dan Zancu, Golem: No! I Won't Tear It Out! - Alexandru Agache, Golem: Why Don't You Give Me That Talisman? - Alexandru Agache, Golem: Peace To You, Dream Of The Human Mind - Sounds Of The Autumn Wind, Arald: Prologue- Arald On His Charger Sweeps... - Dan Zancu, Arald: To You, O Timeless Seer, Across The World I Ride... - Ionel Voineag, Arald: You Were Still But A Child - Alexandru Agache, Arald: My People Ceased Their March... - Ionel Voineag, Arald: Out Of The Heart Of Earth Let Man The Dead Awake... - Alexandru Agache, Arald: Come, Arald, Your Sweet Brow Against My Bosom Lean... - Sanda Sandru, Arald: Interlude - PO Moldova, Iasi/Cristian Mandeal, Arald: Lost Of All Eternity Within The Tomb's Constraint - Alexandru Agache |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 710357542428 |
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Customer Reviews of Nicolae Bretan: Golem and Arald
Beautifully understated drama Despite a lack of big arias, Golem is a good opera. The singers in this production are very effective in conveying the inner tensions of their characters. Although there is little physical movement, the drama of Rabbi Judah Loeb confronting the monster he has created is intense. <
> The scenic cantata, Arald, is Bretan's masterpiece. It is a lyrical evocation of memory, despair, and resignation. Arald puts the listener through all of the emotional upheaval of Das Lied von der Erde in half of the time. This performance of Arald is as affecting as the best performances of Das Lied von der Erde that I have heard.
More beautiful music than we'd any right to expect.
The Transylvanian composer Bretan had one of the grimmer lives of any notable composer - his wife's family were murdered in Auschwitz; his refusal in post-war Romania to become a Communist led to his silencing - but you wouldn't know it from either of these operas.
They are serious and solemn enough. 'Golem' takes the old story of a rampaging Frankenstein-type monster and turns it into a melancholy dialogue about life, science, creation, family. 'Arald', with its hero supplicating the Seer of the Underworld to resuscitate his dead love, forswears doomy Gothic in favour of more metaphysical musings.
From a dramatic point of view, both works are static. Musically, however, they are gloriously reminiscent of mid-period Verdi - bountifully melodic, rapturously sad - with an Eastern European flavour. The fact that an opera composer in the mid-20th century dared even write a TUNE is reason enough to rejoice.
Two short beautiful, somber lyric operas.
"Golem" is a one-act opera about the legendary clay man created by the Rabbi of Prague. The poignant libretto is by the composer. The music is beautiful and lyric, but has no memorable tunes. Stylistically, it is a bit like Rimsky-Korsakoff's operatic writing. "Arald" is not really an opera but a scenic cantata. It tells of the despair of the khan of the Avars over the loss of his wife. The gloom of both text and music put me off at first. On second hearing, I loved it! It is more tuneful than "Das Lied von der Erde" and has none of the dissonance of Bartok's "Duke Bluebeard's Castle", but the mood is similar.