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Weber: Oberon
OC 984 (Oehms Classics, CD, 2 discs)
NEW RELEASE
Playing time: 55'46"/55'55" - TT 111'41"
Tracks: 10 + 10
Booklet pages: 19
© 2016/2019 OehmsClassics Musikproduktion GmbH
Main country of recording: DE
Country of manufacture: DE
Reviewer: Gerald Fenech
Review of Weber: Oberon published on 9 August 2019
Listen: Weber: Gefolge des Kalifen 'Ehre' (Oberon, Act II) (CD1 track 8, 0:16-1:02)
Clemens Kerschbaumer, Oberon
Mirko Roschkowski, Hüon von Bordeaux
Dorothea Maria Marx, Rezia
Grga Peroš, Scherasmin
Marie Seidler, Fatime
Dmitry Egorov, Puck
Roman Kurtz, Erzähler
Chor und Extrachor des Stadttheaters Giessen
Jan Hoffmann, chorus master
Philharmonisches Orchester Giessen
Michael Hofstetter, conductor
Carl Maria von Weber:
Oberon, oder Des Elfenkönigs Eid - opera in three acts to a libretto by James Robinson Planché
CD1
Act I
1 Ouvertüre
2 Elfenchor
3 Schreckensschwur
4 Vision
5 Ensemble
6 Act I Finale
Act II
7 Von Jugend auf
8 Gefolge des Kalifen 'Ehre'
9 Arabiens einsam Kind
10 Quartett
CD2
1 Chor der Geister
2 Preghiera
3 Ozean, du Ungeheuer
4 Act II Finale
Act III
5 Arabien, mein Heimatland
6 An den Ufern der Garonne
7 Terzettino
8 Traure, mein Herz
9 Chor der Sklavinnen
10 Act III Finale
Recorded live in December 2016 and January 2017 at the Stadttheater, Gießen, Germany