SCHREKER: IRRELOHE (2 CDS)

Schreker: Irrelohe
Michael Pabst (Graf Heinrich), Goran Simic (Der Forster/Anselmus)), Luana De Vol (Eva), Eva Randova (Lola), Monte Pederson (Peter), Heinz Zednik (Christobald), Neven Belamaric (Der Pfarrer/Stahlbusch), Sebastian Holecek (Der Muller/Ratzekahl), Helmut Wildhaber (Funckchen/Ein Lakai)
Wiener Singverein, Wiener Symphoniker, Peter Guike

Irrelohe, a Gothic horror story of rape, pillage and arson by the Austrian composer Franz Schreker, was premiered in 1924. The “thoroughly committed” (Gramophone) 1989 live Austrian Radio recording stars Luana De Vol, Monte Pederson, Heinz Zednik and Eva Randová. Wrote the BBC Music Maga-zine, “the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under Peter Gülke gives a suitably fiery reading of the score. Another essential buy for the collector of musical decadence and ‘degeneracy’.”