Emmerich Kalman: Die Bajadere
Sheet Music

SKU: NX.777982-2

By Anke Vondung, Christian Sturm, Dirk Schmitz, Heike Susanne Daum, Miljenko Turk, Rainer Trost, Richard Bonynge, Stephan Genz, Ulrich Hielscher, WDR Fundkhausorchester Koeln, and WDR Rundfunkchor Koeln. By Emmerich Kalman. Country of Origin: Germany. Classical. Listening CD (2 discs). Published by CPO (NX.777982-2).

UPC: 761203798223.

The Bayadere celebrated its premiere in Vienna in December, 1921. A few months later, in February, 1922, the Metropoltheater in Berlin staged this operetta by Emmerich Kalman. His music brings together Hungarian folk melodies and the Viennese waltz, displays operatic and melodramatic elements, and illustrates the American dance rhythms of its times. In addition, it offers exotic tone colors like those of the tarogato and specific rhythms designed to satisfy the longing for the faraway, foreign India. These ingredients came with the guarantee of musical success. This work numbers among the genuine highlights in the Hungarian composer Kalman's oepretta oeuvre. In 2014, the WDR presented a concert performance of The Bayadere and then went on to produce this work in the studio. The great Richard Bonynge opened the operetta's vibrant introduction with plenty of energy and stormy drive, astonishing for this world-renowned Australian conductor who is now in his seventies. The elegant, slender gentleman with a full head of white hair who has always loved the operetta and whose discography includes many recordings in this field led the WDR Orchestra and the WDR Chorus with precisely trimmed conductor's gestures, so that here Emmerich Kalman's famous Bayadere experienced the right interpretation.

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