Medea
) | Label: Coviello Catalog: COV92014 Format: COMPACT DISC THALBACH CAPPELLA AQUILEIA BOSCHIn 1778 Mozart attested "the most wonderful effect" to the melodrama Medea (1775) of his contemporary Georg Anton Benda (1722-1795). Indeed, the combination of spoken texts with dramatic music unfolds a high emotional intensity here. Especially when a voice as incisive as that of the famous actress Katharina Thalbach breathes life into the text. The fast, delicate interplay of text and music makes it possible to develop a conflict-laden and contradictory character psychogram with an unusual presence. Marcus Bosch and the cappella aquileia accompany this new discovery of classical music theater with their usual precise and transparent sound.  Price: $27.98 |