Carl Orff: Antigonae

Carl Orff (Composer), Georg Solti (Conductor), Bavarian State Opera Orchestra (Orchestra), Benno Kusche (Performer), Christel Goltz (Performer), Ernst Haefliger (Performer), Hermann Uhde (Performer), Irmgard Barth (Performer), Karl Ostertag (Performer), Kurt Böhme (Performer), Marianne Schech (Performer), Paul Kuen (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Benno Kusche, Christel Goltz, Ernst Haefliger, Hermann Uhde, Irmgard Barth, et al.
• Orchestra: Bavarian State Opera Orchestra
• Conductor: Georg Solti
• Composer: Carl Orff
• Audio CD (December 12, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Orfeo D'or
• ASIN: B0000044X9
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #451,283 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Antigonae, opera: Gemeinsamschwesterliches! O Ismenes Haupt!

2. Antigonae, opera: O Blik der Sonne, du Schönster

3. Antigonae, opera: Ihr Männer, wär's die Stadt allein

4. Antigonae, opera: Dir dünket diß, o Sohn Menökeus

5. Antigonae, opera: Mein König, dißmal plaudr' ich nicht

6. Antigonae, opera: Ungeheuer ist viel

7. Antigonae, opera: Wie Gottesversuchung aber stehet es vor mir

8. Antigonae, opera: Du also, die zur Erde neigt das Haupt

9. Antigonae, opera: Aber jetzt kommt aus dem Thor Ismene

10. Antigonae, opera: Glükseelige solcher Zeit

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Disc: 2

1. Antigonae, opera: Geist der Liebe, dennoch Sieger

2. Antigonae, opera: Jezt aber komm' ich, eben selber

3. Antigonae, opera: Doch komm' ich an, so nähr' ich das mit Hofnungen

4. Antigonae, opera: O des Landes Thebes väterliche Stadt

5. Antigonae, opera: Ihr Fürsten Thebes!

6. Antigonae, opera: Der Mann, mein König, gieng viel prophezeiend

7. Antigonae, opera: Namenschöpfer, der du von den Wassern

8. Antigonae, opera: O ihr des Kadmos Nachbarn

9. Antigonae, opera: O all ihr Bürger! eine Rede merkt' ich

10. Antigonae, opera: Ich liebe Frau, sages

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars If you only know "Carmina Burana", shame!, August 28, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Carl Orff: Antigonae (Audio CD)

Aug. 99 marked the 50th anniversary of the first performance of Orff's "Antigonae"; it's just as beautiful and fresh now as it was then. There are many musical gems to be found here, but first and foremost this setting is musical THEATER; there is an enormous reliance on the unaccompanied voice to carry the weight of Hoederlein's classic German translation of Sophocles' original. Austere and beautiful at once; not soon forgotten.

5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps I need to hear this a few more times..., October 12, 2006

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Brian M. Kulesza (Joliet, Illinois) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Carl Orff: Antigonae (Audio CD)

Neither "Carmina Burana" nor the "Schulwerke" are the only sides of Carl Orff. Furthermore, I agree with the previous reviewer that "Antigonae" is, indeed, austere. To my ears, the austerity overwhelms most of the beauty that may be present. Upon listening to this several times during the past year, I've found the work irritatingly monotonous. However, as the title of my review states, I'm willing to try even further to warm up to it.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars more..., June 3, 2010

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Richard di Calatrava (Dorchester, Dorset, UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Carl Orff: Antigonae (Audio CD)

...yes; it grows on you with repetition. The best way is to follow with an English translation of the Sophocles (the opera text is basically the same). Then it really comes over as a wonderful piece of music theatre...and the same applies to Orff's Oedipus der Tyrann.