Unsung Composers

The Music => Composers & Music => Topic started by: edurban on Sunday 23 September 2012, 16:16

Title: Scharwenka's opera Mataswintha
Post by: edurban on Sunday 23 September 2012, 16:16
Although we now have a good recording of the overture on Naxos, this enjoyable Wagnerian opera, written on a large scale, remains in the shadows.  Until some enterprising German company takes it up, we can only play through it...and read about it.  I see that there is a dissertation devoted to its only New York performance (Metropolitan Opera House under the auspices of the Damrosch opera company.)  Looks interesting, and perhaps others will think so, too.

David

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