La Toison d’or
Tragédie lyrique (Paris, 1786)
CDs
Johann Christoph Vogel
CHŒUR DE STAATSTHEATER NUMBERG
LE CONCERT SPIRITUEL
Hervé Niquet conductor
with Marie Kalinine, Jean-Sébastien Bou, Judith van Wanroij, Jennifer Borghi, Hrachuhi Bassenz, Martin Nyvall, Franziska Kern, Dominique Lepeudry
LE CONCERT SPIRITUEL
Hervé Niquet conductor
with Marie Kalinine, Jean-Sébastien Bou, Judith van Wanroij, Jennifer Borghi, Hrachuhi Bassenz, Martin Nyvall, Franziska Kern, Dominique Lepeudry
Glossa | Palazzetto Bru Zane
22/10/2013
2 CDs
Johann Christoph Vogel was a contemporary of Mozart, and he too died prematurely. Anguished by nature, as a composer he was firmly forward-looking and aspired to carry on the work of Gluck, who had brought about a revolution in opera in the 1770s. Premièred at the Paris Opéra in 1786, La Toison d’or (The Golden Fleece), illustrates the expressiveness of his art, requiring total commitment of the performers, and with music that is very intense – sometimes unbearably so for audiences of the time. In the violent despair of the heroine, Medea, we are reminded of the same chraracter in Cherubini's Médée, written eleven years later. It is not surprising that Berlioz saw Vogel as one of the pioneers of French Romanticism.
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Johann Christoph Vogel