Composer: Louis Théodore Gouvy
Performer: Christa Ratzenböck, Vinzenz Haab, Stephen Roberts, Joseph Cornwell, Kantorei Saarlouis, La Grande Société Philharmonique
Conductor: Joachim Fontaine
Number of Discs: 2
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: CPO
Catalogue: 777825-2
Release: 2013
Size: 396 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Oedipus auf Kolonos
CD 01
Part I
01. Introduction
02. Parez de myrthe en fleur (Chorus)
03. Habitants de Colone (Theseus)
04. Polynice, salut! (Chorus)
05. Marche religieuse
06. O ciel! Ce lieu sacre (Polyneikes)
07. Seigneur, j’avais un pere (Polyneikes)
08. Vous que l’innocence meme (Theseus)
09. Vous que l’innocence meme (Chorus)
10. Ah! Pitie! (Chorus)
Part II
11. Appuyez-vous sur moi (Antigone, Oedipus)
12. Mon sort, je le prefere (Antigone)
13. Dieux vengeurs! Que vouliez-vous de moi?
14. Voyez la-bas (Chorus)
15. Oedipe est l’ennemi (Chorus)
16. O bonte tutelaire! O pere infortune (Antigone, Theseus)
17. Infortunes humains (Chorus)
CD 02
Part III
01. Sommeil, doux repos (Chorus)
02. Antigone, ma soeur (Polyneikes)
03. O soupirs du remords (Chorus)
04. Ma fille, ecoutez moi
05. Et maintenant ecoute, o Souverain d’Athenes
06. Edonee! (Chorus)
After the premiere of Oedipe à Colone at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig 1881, not much more was heard about Gouvy’s free adaptation of Sophocles tragedy. Joachim Fontaine examined the score under its layer of archival mould and spent many years reconstructing Gouvy’s work before its revival and recording here.
In 2012 the Kantorei Saarlouis and Grand Société Philharmonique were awarded the prestigious Grand Prix of the Académie du Disque in Paris for their premiere recording of Gouvy’s oratorio Iphigénie en Tauride (CPO 7775042).
