GABRIEL
BEBEȘELEA
DISCOGRAPHY
GEORGE ENESCU STRIGOII · GHOSTS · GEISTER
WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING
Capriccio | 2018
RUNDFUNK-SINFONIEORCHESTER BERLIN
GABRIEL BEBEŞELEA conductor
RODICA VICA The Queen, soprano
TIBERIUS SIMU Arald, tenor
BOGDAN BACIU The Mage, baritone
ALIN ANCA Narrator, bass
Strigoii remained a forgotten work until the manuscript, lost like many others in the turmoil of the First World War, was returned to the public domain by the director of the Enescu Museum. In order to understand how Strigoii was created, it was necessary to both decipher and then reconstruct the original score. When Enescu began Strigoii in 1916, it was the result of a long-held admiration for the poet Mihai Eminescu that was to last until the end of the composer’s life. While there are similarities to German Romanticism in Eminescu’s poem (think of Novalis or Tieck), in Strigoii Enescu also shows stylistic affinities to contemporaries such as Alexander von Zemlinsky and the young Alban Berg.
Track List
George Enescu | Mihai Eminescu, lyricist - Strigoii
(reconstructed by C. Țăranu and S. Pautza)
1. Part I: Sub bolta cea înaltă (Narrator) 00:03:51
2. Part I: Eram un copilandru (Arald) 00:08:11
3. Part I: Făcliile ridică (Narrator) 00:03:02
4. Part II: Arald pe un cal negru zbura (Narrator) 00:04:29
5. Part II: Arald atunci coboară de pe - a lui cal - O, mag, de zile vecinic (Narrator, Arald) 00:01:17
6. Part II: Din inima - i pământul la morți să deie viață (Magus) 00:01:31
7. Part II: Atuncea dinaintea lui Arald zidul piere (Narrator) 00:04:57
8. Part II: Rege, a venit Maria (Queen) 00:01:43
9. Part II: Și blânde, triste glasuri din vuiet se desfac (Narrator) 00:02:26
10. Part III: În salele pustie lumine roși de torții (Narrator) 00:04:28
11. Part III: Arald, nu vrei pe sânu - mi (Queen) 00:03:46
12. Part III: Ei zboar - o vijelie (Narrator) 00:03:16
13. Part III: Bătrânu - și pleacă geana și iar rămâne orb (Narrator) 00:02:55
George Enescu - Pastorale Fantaisie
14. Pastorale Fantaisie 00:10:03
