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Viktor Ullmann, Lothar Zagrosek, Leipzig Gewandhausorchester
Ullmann: Der Kaiser Von Atlantis
Genres: Pop, Classical

Track Listings (24) - Disc #1
1. The Kaiser Von Atlantis: Prologue: Hallo, hallo!
2. The Kaiser Von Atlantis: Scene 1: II Praludium
3. The Kaiser Von Atlantis: Scene 1: III Der Mond geht auf den Firsten (aria)
4. The Kaiser Von Atlantis: Scene 1: IV Lass sein. Was singst du da? -- Tage, Tage
5. The Kaiser Von Atlantis: Scene 1: V Ich fuhle mich wenig wohl
6. The Kaiser Von Atlantis: Scene 1: Das waren Kriege (aria)
7. The Kaiser Von Atlantis: Scene 1: VII Hallo, hallo! Achtung! Achtung!
8. The Kaiser Von Atlantis: Scene 2: VIII Intermezzo: Totentanz
9. The Kaiser Von Atlantis: Scene 2: IX Wie spat ist es? - Bin ich wahsinnig
10. The Kaiser Von Atlantis: Scene 2: X Intermezzo
11. The Kaiser Von Atlantis: Scene 3: XI Wer da? - Halt! Steh!
12. The Kaiser Von Atlantis: Scene 3: XII Ist's wahr, dass es Landschaften gibt (aria)
13. The Kaiser Von Atlantis: Scene 3: XIII Komm fort von hier
14. The Kaiser Von Atlantis: Scene 3: XIV Schau, die Golken
15. The Kaiser Von Atlantis: Scene 3: XV Tanz-Intermezzo: Die lebenden Toten
16. The Kaiser Von Atlantis: Scene 4: XVI Wir sind um einen Kreuzer Susses
17. The Kaiser Von Atlantis: Scene 4: XVII Funf, sechs, sieben - Nicht dran denken
18. The Kaiser Von Atlantis: Scene 4: XVIII Ich bin der Tod
19. The Kaiser Von Atlantis: Scene 4: XIX Von allem, was geschieht
20. The Kaiser Von Atlantis: Scene 4: XX Komm Tod, du unser werter Gast (Finale)
21. The Kaiser Von Atlantis: Scene 4: XX Der Krieg ist aus! - Komm Tod
22. The Kaiser Von Atlantis: Holderlin-Lieder: Abendphantasie
23. The Kaiser Von Atlantis: Holderlin-Lieder: Der Fruhling
24. The Kaiser Von Atlantis: Holderlin-Lieder: Wo bist du?

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CD Details

All Artists: Viktor Ullmann, Lothar Zagrosek, Leipzig Gewandhausorchester, Iris Vermillion, Jonathan Alder
Title: Ullmann: Der Kaiser Von Atlantis
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: London / Decca
Release Date: 11/15/1994
Genres: Pop, Classical
Styles: Vocal Pop, Opera & Classical Vocal, Historical Periods, Modern, 20th, & 21st Century
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 028944085426

Synopsis

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Ullmann's opera has got to be one of the most terrifying and moving works in the history of the form. It was composed in 1943 in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, though never performed there. That the music survived at all is something of a miracle, as Ullmann himself was later taken to Auschwitz and gassed. The story is an allegory: the emperor (a thinly disguised parody of Hitler) decides to wage total war, and so offends Death by seeming to take over his job that Death goes on strike, and people everywhere stop dying. Death only agrees to go back to work when the emperor permits himself to be the first victim. Although only about three quarters of an hour long, the music makes a terrific impact, and this gutsy performance pulls no punches. --David Hurwitz

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Member CD Reviews

Carol S. from PARADISE, CA
Reviewed on 2/16/2007...

Beautiful vocal German music with piano accompanying the singers.

CD Reviews

Inexcusable neglect

RALPH P. GRAY | New york, NY United States | 08/23/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This one act opera is one of the degenerate music" releases on the old London label. It deserves to be widely heard. I find it emotionally powerful, both in text and music, and also helped by knowing it was written in concentration camp. The music is not forbidding, as is much of XX Century music. SOme of it is quite lyrical. The singing and the playing of the 13 instruments are just fine.

The story concerns the rule of dictatorial Emperor Overall and his order for "a holy war" in which everyone kills everyone. Harlequin, who stands for life, is old and tired. He wants Death to take him, but Death tells him that laughter is eternal. Death himself feels feeble. He recalls his old glory. The other characters are a soldier, a drummer girl, and a young woman with a boy's haircut. Very important is Loudspeaker who serves as occasional narrator and answer man for the Emperor.

Hermann Prey sings Death, and his clearly reduced voice fits the role perfectly. As already noted, all the singing is fine."