von Klenau: Michael Kohlhaas

[mikehopf]

This Saturday on Danish Radio DK P2:

Operaaften: Michael Kohlhaas
Den Jyske Operas opsætning af den danske komponist Paul von Klenaus senromantiske opera om den helt almindelige mand, hestehandleren Michael Kohlhaas, der i 1532 ender som terrorist og hærger en hel landsdel.
Musikken kombinerer et senromantisk tonesprog med modernisme og middelalder.
Filippo Bettoschi, Aileen Itani, Daniel Szeili, Tanja Christine Kuhn, Ulla Kudsk Jensen, Michael Ha, Jakob Zethner, Valerian Ruminski, Lina Valantiejute, Thomas Christian Sigh og Konrad Adams.
TalentU.
Den Jyske Operas Kor.
Aarhus Symfoniorkester.
Dirigent: Jonas Alber.
(Musikhuset Aarhus 24. august). (2 hrs., 40 min.)

[Alan Howe]

I'm not sure about the suitability of this 1933 opera. Wikipedia says that it's a twelve-tone work...

[Mark Thomas]

I've listened to an earlier broadcast of the same performance of this opera. It's 12 tone certainly, and I'd say that stylistically it's beyond our boundary, but it's not as atonal as I was expecting it to be. Not something I need to hear again, but not something I reeled away from in shock either.