Swedish & Spanish Operatic Rarities

[mikehopf]

It never rains .....

Two rare operas on tonight:


Swedish PRadio P2
P2 Live opera: "Gillet på Solhaug" av Wilhelm Stenhammar
Opera i tre akter.
Libretto: Henrik Ibsen.
I rollerna:
Margit - Matilda Paulsson.
Gudmund Alfsön - Per Håkan Precht.
Signe - Karolina Andersson.
Knut Gaessling - Mathias Zachariassen.
Bengt Gautesön - Fredrik Zetterström.
Erik fra Hagge - Erik Lundh.
Ett sändebud - Anton Ljungqvist.
Sångare ur Musikaliska sällskapets kammarkör, Akademiska kören, Linköping och Norrköpings vokalensemble.
Norrköpings symfoniorkester.
Dirigent: Henrik Schaefer.
Studioinspelning från 2015. (3 hrs.)

Spanish Radio

Usandizaga:

La Llama.. posthumous opera by this talented Spanish composer who died young.

See Operacast website for more details

[mikehopf]

Can someone please record the Stenhammar opera? Another opportunity to flex your muscles, Adriano!

[kuula]

http://sterlingcd.com/catalogue/cdo1108.html

[Alan Howe]

Please note this existing thread on the Stenhammar:
http://www.unsungcomposers.com/forum/index.php/topic,6147.msg65055.html#msg65055

[adriano]

@mikehopf
No way, since this is already available as a commercial recording!
And that Spanish Opera is a DGG release:
https://www.mundoclasico.com/ed3/documentos/27983/llama-Usandizaga-doble-Sinfonica-Euskadi

Here its prologue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8IZ3UO7-Bw

Of this composer, incidentally, there is another piece available on Marco Polo...
https://www.amazon.de/Mendi-Mendiyan-Mena/dp/B0007ACVGO/ref=sr_1_1?s=music-classical&ie=UTF8&qid=1474120944&sr=1-1&keywords=Jos%C3%A9+Mar%C3%ADa+Usandizaga

Have a look at this, it may also be interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVBXtvpTuXs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMxWon4uTP4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D51f6hfl3n0

[mikehopf]

Oh dear! Yet another cock up!

On a more positive note:

Other available recordings of Usandizaga:

  Las Golondrinas - Zarzuela ( more of an opera really) on Homokord Label
  Orchestral Music including the 4 movement Suite in A Op.14 on the Claves label.

[Wheesht]

The Claves Usandizaga disc is out of stock at the publishers, but still available elsewhere as a download (from Presto Classical for example). I have not listened to my copy for a long time, but I do remember finding it very enjoyable if not particularly memorable.

[M. Yaskovsky]

The Usandziaga opera can still be had at Amazon.es; who can tell what's it like. Wagnerian influences with Spanish clichés?

[mikehopf]

More like Puccini influences.

See Chris Webber's excellent book on Zarzuelas for a detailed analysis of this Spanish Pagliacci.