(2018) Othmar Schoeck: Vom Fischer un syner Fru
Category(ies): Oper vocal Orchestra Rarities
Vocal(s): Soprano
Main Composer: Othmar Schoeck
Orchestra: Musikkollegium Winterthur
Conductor: Mario Venzago
CD set: 1
Catalog N°:
CD 1815
Release: 14.12.2018
EAN/UPC: 7619931181523
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OTHMAR SCHOECK: VOM FISCHER UN SYNER FRU
When Othmar Schoeck began writing Vom Fischer un syner Fru (The Fisherman and his Wife) in the summer of 1928, he happened to be on an extended stay at Werner Reinhart's holiday house on the "Fluh" in Maur on the Greifensee lake. The Winterthur merchant Reinhart (1884–1951), who worked in the Gebrüder Volkart family business and possessed a considerable fortune, was also a patron of music.
He supported numerous musical personalities of the 20th century (such as Igor Stravinsky and Paul Hindemith, to name just two of the most important) in his official capacity as a long-standing member of the Board of the Musikkollegium Winterthur and also as a private individual, as an affair of the heart, so to speak, usually in the form of further financial contributions.
The subject matter is based on the famous Children's and Household Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Together with his good friend Armin Rüeger, with whom he was staying for two weeks in Bischofszell in June 1928, Schoeck trawled the collection in search of a new subject for an opera. Ultimately, however, he was alone when he came across the tale Of the Fisherman and his Wife, late at night. He wanted to set it to music immediately, probably because he was already very familiar with the story from the opera Ilsebill. Das Märlein von dem Fischer und seiner Frau (Ilsebill. The Tale of the Fisherman and his Wife) by Friedrich Klose (1862–1942), a pupil of Bruckner's, which had been performed at the International Music Festival in Zurich together with Schoeck's own opera, Venus, in May 1922.
Indeed, it seems that Schoeck intended to set the essence of the plot to music in a work of his own, for he had above all disliked the fact that Klose's composition placed too much emphasis on the individual scenes (some of them with historicising stage sets in a Wagnerian manner). By contrast, he considered that "the dramatic aspect of the material" lay "in its sequence, in its intensification."
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Tour dates
Rachel Harnisch
Jörg Dürmüller
Jordan Shanahan
Musikkolegium Winterthur
Mario Venzago
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Artists & others albums
Rachel Harnisch, Soprano (Die Frau)
Jörg Dürmüller, Tenor (Der Mann)
Jordan Shanahan, Bass (Der Butt)
Musikkollegium Winterthur
Mario Venzago, Conductor
MARIO VENZAGO
Mario Venzago comes from Zurich and trained as a conductor under Hans Swarowsky in Vienna. From 1979 to 1986, Venzago was Resident Conductor at the Musikkollegium Winterthur. His subsequent appointments included that of Chief Conductor of the Sinfonieorchester Basel, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Frankfurt (now Bremen) and the Gothenburg Symphony. He also acted as Chief Conductor of the Heidelberg and Graz opera orchestras. Between 2001 and 2009, Mario Venzago was the Musical Director of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and since 2010 has been Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Bern Symphony Orchestra.
Guest engagements also take him to the most important musical centres in the Old and New Worlds. His complete recording of the Bruckner symphonies was released in 2016, and the recording of all Othmar Schoeck’s choral works with the MDR Radio Choir and Symphony Orchestra was received to international acclaim the same year.
RACHEL HARNISCH
One of today’s most important lyric sopranos, the Swiss singer Rachel Harnisch is now at home on the major opera stages and in the great concert halls. Earlier in her career, she focused on the great Mozart roles; since then, she has also taken on more dramatic parts such as Rachel (La Juive), Emilia Marty (The Makropulos Affair) or the Verdi Requiem. Harnisch has performed with important conductors such as Ingo Metzmacher, Philippe Herreweghe, Kent Nagano, Dimitri Kitajenko, Eliahu Inbal, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Sir Antonio Pappano, Sir Roger Norrington, Sir John Eliot Gardiner and Zubin Mehta. She worked particularly closely with Claudio Abbado.
Besides her operatic engagements, Rachel Harnisch also sings a broad concert repertoire ranging from Johann Sebastian Bach’s St John and St Matthew Passions to contemporary modernist works. Her CD recordings include arias by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater and Othmar Schoeck’s Besuch in Urach, the latter under the direction of Mario Venzago.
JORDAN SHANAHAN
Jordan Shanahan comes from Hawaii, where he studied the trombone and composition. He was then invited to join the chorus of the Hawaii Opera Theatre and later became a member of the Mae Zenke Orvis Opera Studio. In 1998, he transferred to Temple University in Philadelphia, where he sang five principal roles in the ensuing three years. In 2003/2004, he was a member of the Opera Studio at the Nederlands Opera and subsequently pursued further training at the Lyric Opera of Chicago as a member of the institution’s Ryan Opera Center.
He now sings at major opera houses in both the Old and New Worlds; he gave his Swiss début as Masetto at the Theater St. Gallen in 2013, and he débuted at the Bavarian State Opera in Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia in April 2016. Besides his various opera engagements, Jordan Shanahan has also frequently given concerts and song recitals in New York, Honolulu, Philadelphia, Portland (Oregon) and Seattle as well as the Netherlands and France.
JÖRG DÜRMÜLLER
Originally from Bern, the tenor Jörg Dürmüller studied the violin and singing at the Konservatorium Winterthur and continued his singing studies at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre. After opera engagements in Bielefeld, at the Staatstheater Braunschweig and the Komische Oper Berlin, he joined the Volksoper Wien. He has also given guest performances at the opera houses of Leipzig, Cologne, Strasbourg and Seville as well as the Teatro Real in Madrid and the Teatro Reggio in Turin.
Jörg Dürmüller has acquired an excellent reputation as a concert singer, particularly with his interpretations of the evangelists in Bach’s St John and St Matthew Passions. He has sung under conductors such as Riccardo Chailly, Christoph Eschenbach, Christopher Hogwood, Helmuth Rilling, René Jacobs, Adam Fischer, Ton Koopman, Thomas Hengelbrock and Bruno Weil. Besides his active concert and operatic career, Jörg Dürmüller has also been Professor of Singing at the Vaud, Valais and Fribourg University of Music (HEMU) in Fribourg since 2010.
(2018) Othmar Schoeck: Vom Fischer un syner Fru - CD 1815
When Othmar Schoeck began writing Vom Fischer un syner Fru (The Fisherman and his Wife) in the summer of 1928, he happened to be on an extended stay at Werner Reinhart's holiday house on the "Fluh" in Maur on the Greifensee lake. The Winterthur merchant Reinhart (1884–1951), who worked in the Gebrüder Volkart family business and possessed a considerable fortune, was also a patron of music.
He supported numerous musical personalities of the 20th century (such as Igor Stravinsky and Paul Hindemith, to name just two of the most important) in his official capacity as a long-standing member of the Board of the Musikkollegium Winterthur and also as a private individual, as an affair of the heart, so to speak, usually in the form of further financial contributions.
The subject matter is based on the famous Children's and Household Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Together with his good friend Armin Rüeger, with whom he was staying for two weeks in Bischofszell in June 1928, Schoeck trawled the collection in search of a new subject for an opera. Ultimately, however, he was alone when he came across the tale Of the Fisherman and his Wife, late at night. He wanted to set it to music immediately, probably because he was already very familiar with the story from the opera Ilsebill. Das Märlein von dem Fischer und seiner Frau (Ilsebill. The Tale of the Fisherman and his Wife) by Friedrich Klose (1862–1942), a pupil of Bruckner's, which had been performed at the International Music Festival in Zurich together with Schoeck's own opera, Venus, in May 1922.
Indeed, it seems that Schoeck intended to set the essence of the plot to music in a work of his own, for he had above all disliked the fact that Klose's composition placed too much emphasis on the individual scenes (some of them with historicising stage sets in a Wagnerian manner). By contrast, he considered that "the dramatic aspect of the material" lay "in its sequence, in its intensification."
***
Tour dates
Rachel Harnisch
Jörg Dürmüller
Jordan Shanahan
Musikkolegium Winterthur
Mario Venzago
***
Artists & others albums
Rachel Harnisch, Soprano (Die Frau)
Jörg Dürmüller, Tenor (Der Mann)
Jordan Shanahan, Bass (Der Butt)
Musikkollegium Winterthur
Mario Venzago, Conductor
MARIO VENZAGO
Mario Venzago comes from Zurich and trained as a conductor under Hans Swarowsky in Vienna. From 1979 to 1986, Venzago was Resident Conductor at the Musikkollegium Winterthur. His subsequent appointments included that of Chief Conductor of the Sinfonieorchester Basel, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Frankfurt (now Bremen) and the Gothenburg Symphony. He also acted as Chief Conductor of the Heidelberg and Graz opera orchestras. Between 2001 and 2009, Mario Venzago was the Musical Director of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and since 2010 has been Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Bern Symphony Orchestra.
Guest engagements also take him to the most important musical centres in the Old and New Worlds. His complete recording of the Bruckner symphonies was released in 2016, and the recording of all Othmar Schoeck’s choral works with the MDR Radio Choir and Symphony Orchestra was received to international acclaim the same year.
RACHEL HARNISCH
One of today’s most important lyric sopranos, the Swiss singer Rachel Harnisch is now at home on the major opera stages and in the great concert halls. Earlier in her career, she focused on the great Mozart roles; since then, she has also taken on more dramatic parts such as Rachel (La Juive), Emilia Marty (The Makropulos Affair) or the Verdi Requiem. Harnisch has performed with important conductors such as Ingo Metzmacher, Philippe Herreweghe, Kent Nagano, Dimitri Kitajenko, Eliahu Inbal, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Sir Antonio Pappano, Sir Roger Norrington, Sir John Eliot Gardiner and Zubin Mehta. She worked particularly closely with Claudio Abbado.
Besides her operatic engagements, Rachel Harnisch also sings a broad concert repertoire ranging from Johann Sebastian Bach’s St John and St Matthew Passions to contemporary modernist works. Her CD recordings include arias by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater and Othmar Schoeck’s Besuch in Urach, the latter under the direction of Mario Venzago.
JORDAN SHANAHAN
Jordan Shanahan comes from Hawaii, where he studied the trombone and composition. He was then invited to join the chorus of the Hawaii Opera Theatre and later became a member of the Mae Zenke Orvis Opera Studio. In 1998, he transferred to Temple University in Philadelphia, where he sang five principal roles in the ensuing three years. In 2003/2004, he was a member of the Opera Studio at the Nederlands Opera and subsequently pursued further training at the Lyric Opera of Chicago as a member of the institution’s Ryan Opera Center.
He now sings at major opera houses in both the Old and New Worlds; he gave his Swiss début as Masetto at the Theater St. Gallen in 2013, and he débuted at the Bavarian State Opera in Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia in April 2016. Besides his various opera engagements, Jordan Shanahan has also frequently given concerts and song recitals in New York, Honolulu, Philadelphia, Portland (Oregon) and Seattle as well as the Netherlands and France.
JÖRG DÜRMÜLLER
Originally from Bern, the tenor Jörg Dürmüller studied the violin and singing at the Konservatorium Winterthur and continued his singing studies at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre. After opera engagements in Bielefeld, at the Staatstheater Braunschweig and the Komische Oper Berlin, he joined the Volksoper Wien. He has also given guest performances at the opera houses of Leipzig, Cologne, Strasbourg and Seville as well as the Teatro Real in Madrid and the Teatro Reggio in Turin.
Jörg Dürmüller has acquired an excellent reputation as a concert singer, particularly with his interpretations of the evangelists in Bach’s St John and St Matthew Passions. He has sung under conductors such as Riccardo Chailly, Christoph Eschenbach, Christopher Hogwood, Helmuth Rilling, René Jacobs, Adam Fischer, Ton Koopman, Thomas Hengelbrock and Bruno Weil. Besides his active concert and operatic career, Jörg Dürmüller has also been Professor of Singing at the Vaud, Valais and Fribourg University of Music (HEMU) in Fribourg since 2010.
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