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Hamlet Machine

Hamlet Machine

Music theater in five parts

Text by Heiner Müller, adapted for the libretto by the composer


  • Edition: 2 CDs, 2 CDs
  • Series: WERGO - Music of Our Time
  • Order No.: WER 61952
£25.99
Weight: 0.2 kg
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Description
These two CDs present a live recording of the premiere in the Nationaltheater Mannheim in March 1987. Under Peter Schneider as conductor and Friedrich Meyer-Oertel as stage director, the ensemble offers up a forceful performance.

"Heiner Müller's text 'Die Hamletmaschine' from 1977 is an intellectual turning point, an 'endgame' of drama: There are no continuous plot and no assigned parts any longer; time has become a lumpy sphere, and multi-layered images pass like an imaginary theatre. […] With his partly impetuous, partly excessive lyrical music, 'polluted' by quotes and pseudo-quotes and thus also being 'open', Wolfgang Rihm managed to 'grasp' this unwieldy text and achieve a great success at the world premiere of 'Die Hamletmaschine'." (Fono Forum) 

Kurt Müller-Graf (Hamlet I), Rudolf Kowalski (Hamlet II), Johannes M. Kösters (Hamlet III): baritone / Gabriele Schnaut: soprano (Ophelia) / Carmen Fuggiss: soprano (Ophelia-Double; Marx; Stimme aus dem Sarg) / Ulrike Sonntag: soprano (Ophelia-Double; Lenin; Stimme aus dem Sarg) / Martina Borst: mezzo-soprano (Ophelia-Double; Mao; Stimme aus dem Sarg) / Chor und Orchester des Nationaltheaters Mannheim / Lech-Rudolf Gorywoda: chorus master / Peter Schneider: conductor
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Content text: Die Hamletmaschine (Hamlet Machine)
Music theater in five parts
I. Family Album
II. Europe of the Woman
III. Scherzo
IV. Pest in Buda, Battle of Greenland
V. Wildstraining, In the Fearsome Armaments, Millennia
EAN: 4010228619522
Performance duration: 92' 22"
Publisher: Wergo
Series: WERGO - Music of Our Time
These two CDs present a live recording of the premiere in the Nationaltheater Mannheim in March 1987. Under Peter Schneider as conductor and Friedrich Meyer-Oertel as stage director, the ensemble offers up a forceful performance.

"Heiner Müller's text 'Die Hamletmaschine' from 1977 is an intellectual turning point, an 'endgame' of drama: There are no continuous plot and no assigned parts any longer; time has become a lumpy sphere, and multi-layered images pass like an imaginary theatre. […] With his partly impetuous, partly excessive lyrical music, 'polluted' by quotes and pseudo-quotes and thus also being 'open', Wolfgang Rihm managed to 'grasp' this unwieldy text and achieve a great success at the world premiere of 'Die Hamletmaschine'." (Fono Forum) 

Kurt Müller-Graf (Hamlet I), Rudolf Kowalski (Hamlet II), Johannes M. Kösters (Hamlet III): baritone / Gabriele Schnaut: soprano (Ophelia) / Carmen Fuggiss: soprano (Ophelia-Double; Marx; Stimme aus dem Sarg) / Ulrike Sonntag: soprano (Ophelia-Double; Lenin; Stimme aus dem Sarg) / Martina Borst: mezzo-soprano (Ophelia-Double; Mao; Stimme aus dem Sarg) / Chor und Orchester des Nationaltheaters Mannheim / Lech-Rudolf Gorywoda: chorus master / Peter Schneider: conductor
Content text: Die Hamletmaschine (Hamlet Machine)
Music theater in five parts
I. Family Album
II. Europe of the Woman
III. Scherzo
IV. Pest in Buda, Battle of Greenland
V. Wildstraining, In the Fearsome Armaments, Millennia
EAN: 4010228619522
Performance duration: 92' 22"
Publisher: Wergo
Series: WERGO - Music of Our Time
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