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Peter Heise: Drot og Marsk Reviews
Peter Heise: Drot og Marsk Reviews
| 7 of 7 people found the following review helpful  Stunning Romantic Orchestral Writing, First rate singing, and one of the most beautiful soprano arias I've ever heard..., By Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: Peter Heise: Drot og Marsk (Audio CD) When I first began exploring "classical" music in the 1980's, i was a poor college student. I subscribed to "Classic CD" magazine--a great investment. It included a cd each month with a sizable excerpt from newly released cd's--about 15-20 tracks per cd, giving one who knew nothing about music a wide range of exposures in a small amount of time. Now, I would have hated that approach, as I love hearing complete works...but as I was just learning, I didn't know what I liked enough to concentrate on the repertoire well, and this was a great great way of discovering a ton of styles, performers, conductors, and composers.Peter Heise is not a name that has lit up the firmament, but amongst fans of scandanavian music, his name does have a certain cachet. In 1993, a recording of his opera King and Marshall (Drot og Marsk) was released on Chandos and reviewed in Classic CD. An aria (Jeg Beder for hver en vejfarende Sjael) by the incomparable Inga Nielsen from act 4 of the... Read more 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful  Delightful and enjoyable, By Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: Peter Heise: Drot og Marsk (Audio CD) Peter Arnold Heise's (1830-1879) "tragic song drama" Drot og Marsk (King and Marshal) was premiered in 1878. For its time the musical language is harmonically relatively conservative, hailing back to Meyerbeer, early Wagner, Schumann and Lortzing, generally derivative but peppered with Danish folk music that adds a certain personal flavor to it. Nevertheless, this opera is a surprisingly fresh and engaging work, generally superbly paced (and that is Heise's perhaps greatest skill - ensuring that nothing ever outstays its welcome) and full of infectious melodies, beautiful, lyrical moments and rousing big scenes; this is spirited and truly enjoyable music, colorfully scored and put together - it is no wonder it has managed to retain a certain toehold in the Danish repertoire (this is, as far as I can see, its second commercial recording but the only one to have been issued on CD and the only one currently available).The soloists obviously enjoy themselves, and if there are... Read more |
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