Telemann – Miriways

Composer(s):

Georg Philipp Telemann
Release Date: 08-05-2020
PTC: 5186842
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Georg Philip Telemann (1681-1767)

Act 1

Audio Player 2) Recitative: Glaub nur, es würde mir (Miriways, Samischa) 1:17
Audio Player 4) Recitative: Wo aber ist jetztund das erste Pfand (Miriways, Samischa) 1:46
Audio Player 10) Recitative: Mein Prinz, wie so betrübt? (Bemira, Sophi) 1:40
Audio Player 14) Recitative: Ich folge meinem Leitstern nach (Murzah) 0:41
Audio Player 17) Recitative: Wo ist die Nisibis geblieben? (Zemir) 0:40

Act 2

Audio Player 21) Recitative: Wenn man in Kirwan (Miriways, Murzah) 0:49
Audio Player 22) Recitative: Der Fürst, in dessen Hand (A Messenger, Miriways) 2:01
Audio Player 24) Recitative: Kennst du die Nisibis? (Miriways, Zemir) 0:32
Audio Player 25) Recitative: Wenn wegen des Befehls (Murzah, Miriways) 0:47
Audio Player 28) Aria: Die Dankbarkeit wird dich verpflichten! (Zemir) 2:28
Audio Player 29) Recitative: Wo ist ein Schmerz (Sophi, Nisibis, Bemira) 3:17
Audio Player 32) Accompagnement: Des Schicksals starke Macht (Der Geist, Bemira, Sophi) 1:10

CD2

Audio Player 38) Recitative: Ein junger Prinz, der sich vermählen soll (Miriways) 0:42
Audio Player 40) Recitative: Ach Fürst, nimm dein Geschenk (Sophi, Miriways) 1:46
Audio Player 42) Recitative: Du nennest mich ein undankbares Herz? (Sophi) 0:18

Act 3

Audio Player 44) Recitative: Mit dankbegier'gem Sinn (Samischa, Nisibis) 2:09
Audio Player 45) Aria: Lass dir sein ehrerbietig's Flehen (Samischa) 3:34
Audio Player 46) Recitative: Es darf mir Murzah nicht verbunden sein (Nisibis) 1:36
Audio Player 53) Recitative: Sie ist vor Schrecken tot (Murzah, Zemir, Nisibis) 3:11
Audio Player 55) Recitative: So bist du auch dem Tode noch entrissen? (Nisibis, Samischa, Zemir, Murzah) 2:30
Audio Player 56) Aria: Wenn du kannst, so heiß mich lügen! (Murzah) 4:56
Audio Player 58) Aria à 2: Welch süßes Ergötzen (Murzah, Nisibis) 4:36
Audio Player 59) Recitative: Bestehst du noch auf deinem Sinn? (Miriways) 0:13
Audio Player 60) Aria: Lass, mein Sohn, ach, lass dir raten (Miriways) 5:40
Audio Player 61) Recitative: Ach freilich macht mir's große Pein (Sophi) 0:30
Audio Player 65) Recitative: Hat dich die Liebe denn so heftig eingenommen (Miriways, Sophi, Bemira) 2:42
Total Tracks 66
Total Duration 02hr 33min

Album information

ORIENTAL BAROQUE OPERA

PENTATONE presents Telemann’s rarely-performed opera Miriways (1728) with a stellar cast and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin conducted by Bernard Labadie. Star vocalists such as André Morsch (Miriways), Robin Johannsen (Sophi), Sophie Karthäuser (Bemira), Lydia Teuscher (Nisibis) and Michael Nagy (Murzah) offer a string of beautiful baroque arias and scenes in this German-language opera. Miriways is a piece about love, duty and truthfulness, and was based on political events from that time in Afghanistan and Persia that actually made headlines in European newspapers, demonstrating the eighteenth-century fascination for the Orient. The opera was recorded live during the Telemann Festival Hamburg in 2017.

The Akademie für Alte Musik is generally seen as one of the best period-instruments ensembles of today, and has a substantial PENTATONE discography, including CANTATA with Bejun Mehta (2018), as well as Handel’s Concerti grossi op. 6 (released in 2019 and 2020). Robin Johannsen featured on Handel’s Parnasso in festa (2017). André Morsch, Sophie Karthäuser, Lydia Teuscher, Michael Nagy and Bernard Labadie make their PENTATONE debut.

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