Description
Title: Hamlet Machine
Artist: Peter Schneider
Label: Wergo Germany
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 4010228619522
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2012-11-01
Number of Discs: 2
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)
Tracks:
1.1 Familienalbum – I. Family Album
1.2 Das Europa Der Frau – II. Europe of the Woman
1.3 Scherzo – III. Scherzo
2.1 Pest in Buda Schlact Um GR Land – IV. Pest in Buda, Battle of Greenland
2.2 Wildharrend / in Der Furchtbaren R Stung / Jahrtausende – V. Wildstraining, in the Fearsome Armaments, Millennia
