51. Moses und Aron
[Moses and Aron]
(1930/32)
(multiple voices, multiple choruses, orchestra)
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Act I
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Scene 1. Moses Berufung [Moses’ call]
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Scene 2. Moses begegnet Aron in der Wüste [Moses meets Aron in
the wasteland]
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Scene 3. Moses und Aron verkünden dem Volk die Botschaft Gottes
[Moses and Aron bring God’s message to the people]
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Scene 4. Chor (alle) [Chorus (all)]
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Interlude
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Act II
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Scene 1. Aron und die siebzig Ältesten vor dem Berg der Offenbarung
[Aron and the seventy elders before the Mountain of Revelation]
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Scene 2
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Scene 3. Das goldene Kalb und der Altar [The golden calf and the
altar]
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Scene 4
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Scene 5. Moses und Aron [Moses and Aron]
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Act III
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Scene 1
- Ruth Wilke, soprano;
Petra Boser, alto; Franz Köth,
tenor; Heinz Janssen, tenor;
Willibald Vohla, baritone; members
of the Städtischer
Musikverein (Paul Cadow, director);
Chor and
Orchester
des Landestheaters Darmstadt; Hermann Scherchen,
conductor (recorded: live, world premiere, Internationale Ferienkurse für
Neue Musik, Stadthalle, Darmstadt, West Germany, 2
July 1951) (Act II, scene 3: “Der Tanz um das goldenen Kalb”)
(33:13)
- Hans Herbert Fiedler, voice
(Moses); Helmut Krebs,
tenor (Aron); Ilona Steingruber-Wildgans,
soprano (young girl); Ursula Zollenkops,
alto (invalid woman, solo voice); Helmut Kretschmar,
tenor (young man, naked youth); Horst Günter,
baritone (another man); Hermann Rieth,
bass (Ephraimite, priest); Dorothea Förster-Georgi
(naked virgin, solo voice); Carla Maria Pfeffer-Düring
(naked virgin); Anna Maria Tamm
(naked virgin); Charlotte Bettke
(naked virgin); Maria Hüger
(solo voice); Hartwig Studemann
(solo voice); Horst Sellenpin
(solo voice) Ernest-Max Lühr
(solo voice); Chorus
of the Hamburg Academy of Music; Chorus
of the North German Radio (elderly persons, elders, tribal chieftains,
beggars, people); Orchestra
of the North German Radio; Hans Rosbaud,
conductor (recorded: Norddeutscher Rundfunk broadcast, Hamburg, West Germany,
12 March 1954) (I.1/8:48
+ I.2/7:46 + I.3/6:01 + I.4/11:09+14:40 + Interlude/2:36 + II.1-3/ 18:27+13:45
+ II.4- 5/11:04 = 1:34:26)
- * Columbia K3L 241 mono (1957)
LP
- * Philips A 01 505/06
L mono (1961?) LP
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Philips ABL 3398/99 mono (1961?) LP
- * CBS 78213 stereo (1973)
LP
- CBS (Japan) SONC 15055/57
(pre 1978) LP
- * Stradivarius STR 10008
mono? ADD (1988) CD (Act I, scene 1: “Moses Berufung”) (8:51)
- * Stradivarius STR 10022
mono? ADD (1989) CD (Act II, scene 3: “Das goldene Kalb und der
Altar”) (26:27)
- Josef Greindl, voice (Moses);
Helmut Melchert, tenor (Aron);
Ivan Sardi, bass (Priester); Marina
Türke, soprano (Mädchen);
Loren Driscoll, tenor (Junger
Mann); Alice Oelke, alto (Eine
Kranke); Werner Goetz, tenor (Der
nackte Jüngling); Ronald Reitan,
baritone (Anderer Mann); Hans Heinz Nissen,
baritone (Der Ephraimit); Fritz Hoppe,
baritone (Elder); Robert Hoffmann,
bass (Elder); Günther Treptow,
bass (Elder); Chorus
and Orchestra
of the Deutsche Oper Berlin; Walter Hagen-Groll,
director; Günther Altenburg,
director; Hermann Scherchen,
conductor (recorded: live, Teatro dell’Opera, Rome, Italy, 5
January 1966) (I.1/9:37 + I.2/7:45 + I.3/5:43 + I.4/25:55 + Interlude/2:03
+ II.1/3:20 + II.2/27:01 + II.3/9:14 + II.4/1:03 + II.5/12:14 + III.1/9:44
= 1:01:56)
- Günter Reich, voice (Moses);
Louis Devos, tenor (Aron); Eva
Csapó, soprano (young girl,
naked virgin); Elizabeth Wagner,
soprano (naked virgin); Maria Mühlbacher,
mezzo-soprano (naked virgin, voice); Elfriede Obrowsky,
alto (invalid woman, voice); Helga Chlup,
alto (naked virgin); Roger Lucas,
tenor (young man, naked youth); Richard Salter,
baritone (another man); Ladislav Illavsky,
baritone (Ephraimit, voice); Werner Mann,
bass (priest); Franz Handlos,
bass (voice); Elisabeth Brömmel,
soprano (voice); Alfred Winkler,
tenor (voice); Vienna Boys
Choir (voice from the burning bush); Chorus
(beggars, several old men, seventy elders, 12 tribal leaders, people) and
Orchestra of
the Austrian Radio; Michael Gielen,
conductor (recorded: London, England, 1974)
(I.1-2/17:26 + I.3-4/30:50 + Interlude-II.1-3 beginning/21:50 + II.3 end-5/28:18
= 1:38:24)
- Günter Reich, voice (Moses);
Richard Cassilly, tenor (Aron);
Felicity Palmer, soprano (young
girl, 2nd naked virgin); John Winfield,
tenor (youth, naked youth, young man); John Noble,
baritone (man, another man); Roland Herrmann,
baritone (Ephraimit); Richard Angas,
bass (priest); Gillian Knight
(invalid woman, 2nd voice, 3rd naked virgin); Jane Manning,
soprano (1st naked virgin, 1st voice); Helen Watts,
voice (4th naked virgin, 3rd voice); Philip Langridge,
tenor (4th voice); Michael Rippon,
voice (5th voice); Denis Wicks,
voice (6th voice); BBC Singers;
Orpheus Boys’ Choir;
John Poole, director; BBC
Symphony Orchestra; Pierre Boulez,
conductor (recorded: West Ham Central Mission, London, England, 30
November, 3 & 5-6 December 1974) (I:1-3/22:08 + I.4/23:10 + Interlude/2:05
+ II.1-3/20:30+18:31 + II.4-5/11:37 = 1:38:01)
- *Columbia M2 33594 stereo
(1975) LP
- *CBS 79201 stereo (1975?)
LP
- CBS (Japan) SOCO 143/44
stereo (pre 1978) LP
- *CBS Sony 58DC 335/36
stereo A?D (1985) CD
- *CBS Sony Classical CSCR
8086/87 stereo A?D (1990) CD
- *Sony Classical SM2K 48456
(48457/58) stereo ADD (1993) CD
- *Sony Classical SMK 62021
stereo ADD (1995) CD (1:10 (Aron: “Dieses Bild bezeugt”);
3:21 (Feierlich (m. 320)); 2:10 (Tanz der Schlächter); 3:24 (Eine
Kranke: “O Götterbild”); 4:43 (Rasch (m. 497)); 5:34
(Orgie der Trunkenheit und des Tanzes); 2:56 (4 nackte Jungfrauen: “O
goldener Gott”); 5:16 (Ziemlich rasch (m. 824)))
- *Sony Classical SM4K 62364 (SMK 62019-022) stereo ADD (1996) 4 CD (1:10 (Aron: “Dieses
Bild bezeugt”); 3:21 (Feierlich (m. 320)); 2:10 (Tanz der Schlächter);
3:24 (Eine Kranke: “O Götterbild”); 4:43 (Rasch (m. 497));
5:34 (Orgie der Trunkenheit und des Tanzes); 2:56 (4 nackte Jungfrauen:
“O goldener Gott”); 5:16 (Ziemlich rasch (m. 824)))
- *Sony Classical SSK 6343
stereo ADD (1996) CD (excerpt)
- *Sony Classical SSK 6344
stereo ADD (1996) CD (excerpt)
- *Sony Classical SSK 6346
stereo ADD (1996) CD (excerpt)
- *Sony Classical [s.n.] stereo
ADD (1998) CD (excerpt)
- Werner Haseleu, voice (Moses);
Reiner Goldberg, tenor
(Aron); Renate Krahmer, soprano
(young girl, 1st naked virgin, 1st solo voice); Gisela Pohl,
alto (invalid woman, 3rd naked virgin, 3rd solo voice); Armin Ude,
tenor (young man, naked youth, 4th solo voice); Hermann Christian Polster,
baritone (another man, 6th solo voice, 1st elder); Karl-Heinz Stryczek,
baritone (Ephraimit); Leonard Mroz,
bass (priest); Roswitha Trexler,
mezzo-soprano (2nd naked virgin, 2nd solo voice); Rosemarie Lang,
mezzo-soprano (4th naked virgin); Gothart Stier,
baritone (5th solo voice); Ekkehard Wlaschiha,
bass (2nd elder); Paul Glahn, bass
(3rd elder); Rundfunkchor
Leipzig (Horst Neumann,
dr); Kapell-Knaben
der Katholischen Hofkirche Dresden (Konrad Wagner,
director); Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester
Leipzig; Herbert Kegel, conductor
(recorded: Studio Paul-Gerhardt-Kirche, Leipzig, March
1976) (I:1/8:49 + I:2/7:40 + I:3/5:34 + I:4/25:32 + Interlude/2:11 +
II:1/3:47 + II:2/6:55 + II:3/26:18 + II:4/1:12 + II:5/11:40 = 1:39:37)
- Franz Mazura, bass (Moses);
Philip Langridge, tenor (Aron);
Barbara Bonney, soprano (young
girl); Aage Haugland, bass (priest);
Mira Zakai, alto (invalid woman);
Daniel Harper, tenor (young man);
Thomas Dymit, tenor (naked youth);
Herbert Wittges, baritone (man,
Ephraimit); Kurt Link, baritone
(another man, elder); Jean Braham,
soprano (naked virgin); Cynthia Anderson,
alto (naked virgin); Karen Zajac,
alto (naked virgin); Richard Cohn,
baritone (elder); Paul Grizzell,
bass (elder); Sally Schweikert,
soprano (solo voice); Elizabeth Gottlieb,
mezzo-soprano (solo voice); Karen Brunssen,
alto (solo voice); Roald Henderson,
tenor (solo voice); Bradley Nystrom,
baritone (solo voice); William Kirkwood,
bass (solo voice); Chicago
Symphony Chorus; Margaret Hillis,
director; Glen Ellyn
Children’s Chorus members; Doreen Rao,
director; Chicago
Symphony Orchestra; Georg Solti,
conductor (recorded: Orchestra Hall, Chicago, IL, April-May
1984) (I.1-3/21:26 + I.4/24:45 + Interlude-II.1-3 beginning/21:58 +
II.3 end- 5/28:11 = 1:36:20)
- Siegfried Vogel, bass-baritone (Moses); Reiner Goldberg, tenor (Aron); Shinobu Sato, soprano (young girl, naked virgin); Aiko Kori, alto (invalid woman); Makoto Tanaka, tenor (young man); Akihide Kobayashi, tenor (naked man, solo voice); Toshiyuki Sueyoshi, baritone (man, elder 3); Hiroshi
Kuroda, baritone (another man, elder 2); Kiyotaka Kaga, baritone (Ephraimit, solo voice); Shigeki Tani, bass (priest); Midori Minawa, soprano (naked virgin, solo voice); Yuri Ohashi, mezzo-soprano (naked virgin, solo voice); Akiko Ogawa, alto (naked virgin, solo voice); Shigeki Mine, bass (elder 1, solo voice); Tokyo Philharmonic Chorus; Tokyo Broadcasting Children's Chorus Group; Tokyo Symphony Orchestra ; Yasufumi Tokito, director; Hidekazu Himoto, director; Fujio Furuhashi, director; Naoto Otomo, sub-conductor; Kazuyoshi Akiyama, conductor
(recorded: live, 400th subscription concert, Suntory Hall, Tokyo, Japan, 28 & 30 January 1994) (I/45:29 (1/8:08 + 2/7:09 + 3/6:17 + 4/23:55 (6.27 + 3:44 + 3:24 + 7:42 + 2:38)) + Interlude/2:03 + II/49:11 (1/3:28 + 2/7:01 + 3/27:22 (0:41 + 3:05 + 2:12 + 3:19 + 4:19 + 5:39 + 2:38 + 5:29) + 4/1:06 + 5/10:14) + III.1/5:31 = 1:40:14)
- David Pittman-Jennings,
voice (Moses); Chris Merritt,
voice (Aron); Gabriele Fontana,
voice (young girl, naked virgin); László Polgár,
voice (priest); Yvonne Naef,
voice (invalid woman); John Graham Hall,
voice (young man, naked youth); Pår Lindskog,
voice (youth); Michael Devlin,
voice (Ephraimit); Henk de Vries,
voice (man); Siegfried Lorenz,
baritone (another man); José Kalthof,
voice (naked virgin); Diana Rehbock,
voice (naked virgin); Caren van Oijen,
voice (naked virgin); Jan Pollak,
voice (elder); Jef van Wersch,
voice (elder); Nico Pouw, voice
(elder); Franziska Hirzel, voice
(solo voice); Helene Rasker, voice
(solo voice); Silke Marchfeld,
voice (solo voice); Duncan Mackenzie,
voice (solo voice); Thomas Mehnert,
voice (solo voice); Markus Marquardt,
voice (solo voice); Iris Giel, soprano
(soprano voice); Chorus
of De Nederlandse Opera; Zaans
Jongenskoor; Jongens
Muziekschool Waterland; Winfried Maczewski,
director; Royal
Concertgebouw Orchestra; Pierre Boulez,
conductor (recorded: Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Holland, October
1995) (I/50:22 (Prelude/0:41 + 1/7:51 + 2/8:29 + 3/6:23 + 4/26:58 (0:46
+ 2:19 + 3:46 + 4:05 + 1:12 + 5:08 + 6:42 + 3:00)) + Interlude/1:47 + II/53:24
(1/3:23 + 2/7:20 + 3/28:31 (4:09 + 2:14 + 3:38 + 4:47 + 2:14 + 2:09 + 4:03
+ 5:17) + 4/1:22 + 5/12:49) = 1:45:33)
- *Deutsche Grammophon 449
174-2 GH2 stereo DDD (1996) CD
- *Deutsche Grammophon 457
693-2 GH stereo DDD (2000) CD (Act II, Erotische Orgie, “Eurem
Vorbild, Götter”) (5:18)