Steinaecker

Love plays a significant part in most operas, but all too often it is frustrated, or entangled with deception, humiliation and betrayal. With her new disc Camilla Tilling presents a near-comprehensive catalogue of the emotions that the vagaries of love can raise in the breast of an operatic heroine. And these emotions are universal and timeless, afflicting servants and countesses, Grecian princesses, a sorceress from Damascus and a young lady of 18th-century Naples alike.

The first Swedish recording of Nielsen's three solo concertos, here with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and three of their leading soloists: Malin Broman violin, Anders Jonhäll flute and Andreas Sundén Clarinet. The recordings were made at concerts in autumn 2015 in Berwaldhallen Stockholm. The three young conductors who participate have brilliant careers to look forward to.

Around 1900 Merano was a popular health resort of the High Society far beyond the borders of Austria-Hungary. The people there were entertained by salon orchestras in the open air pavilion or in the Kursaal. In his project with Musica Saeculorum, Philipp von Steinaecker was able to rely on the original vocal material of the Meran Kurmusik. Laura Giordano is considered one of the most talented Italian sopranos of her generation, appreciated by audiences and critics alike both for her vocal qualities as well as her captivating stage presence and dramatic talent. Following her debut at a very young age in her native Palermo, her career soon took her to leading international opera houses in Milan, Rome, Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, London, Moscow, St. Petersburg and to opera festivals in Salzburg, Florence, Santa Fe, and Pesaro.