Die Soldaten
Bernd Alois Zimmermann
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Reviews (9)
MusicWeb international
2018 September
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Stuart Sillitoe
2018 September
"I enjoyed this production; whilst the singing may not be as polished as the ArtHaus, there is, I think, a greater sense of the occasion and of ensemble here, I particularly liked the singing of the two main characters, and that of Olga Tenyakova as Katya ... This is not the opera to watch when you are feeling a little bit down, but it is a production that gives you hope".
Kristeligt dagblad
d. 3. Sep. 2018
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Peter Dürrfeld
d. 3. Sep. 2018
"Hvad enten man har set Den Jyske Operas nye forestilling "Passageren" eller ej, er denne dvd en stærk og i lange stræk rystende oplevelse ... Efter at hele Weinbergs familie blev myrdet under holocaust, ville han skrive en opera, der behandlede krigens gru og alligevel viste hans tro på, at friheden og menneskeligheden i sidste instans vil sejre. Weinberg fandt sit perfekte emne i Zofia Posmysz' selvbiografiske roman, der skildrer hendes grumme oplevelser som fange i Auschwitz ... Den slovakiske dirigent Oliver von Dohnányi giver en indtrængende fortolkning af Weinbergs partitur ... Iscenesætteren Thaddeus Strassberger har sørget for en smidig scenegang mellem den luksusliner, hvor handlingen tager sin begyndelse, og tilbageblikkene til barakkerne i Auschwitz. Denne historie fra et uhyggeligt helvede, der var virkelighed for blot et par generationer siden, er blevet fastholdt aldeles overbevisende på den russiske indspilning".
BBC music magazine
2022 January
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Erik Levi
2022 January
"The opportunity to focus solely on the music, undistracted by any idiosyncrasies that accompany a stage production, has actually enhanced my appreciation of Weinberg's score ... This recording projects a greater lyrical poignancy [than the DVD], not least in the extended arias by Marta and Katja in Scene 6 which are beautifully sung here by Nadja Stefanoff and Tetyana Miyus ... Capriccio's engineers have done a fine job in securing a good balance between singers and orchestra".
Diapason
2019 février
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Nicolas Derny
2019 février
BBC music magazine
2018 August
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Erik Levi
2018 August
"The opera's premiere at the 2010 Bregenz Festival was given wide dissemination through an Arthaus DVD release. Now comes an equally compelling representation of the first Russian production given in 2016 by stellar soloists ... The earlier Bregenz DVD perhaps holds advantages through the more technically refined playing ... But the flashback scenes in Auschwitz, which seemed lengthy and discursive in the Bregenz version, are far more convincingly paced by the Russian company".
The gramophone
2022 February
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David Fanning
2022 February
"Since the stage premiere in 2010, Weinberg's Auschwitz-based opera has been seen in at least 20 theatres and in a dozen different productions, two of which have appeared on DVD. Still it remains a fact that every new staging requires courage and dedication, such are the demands placed on singers, orchestra and audience alike, and Capriccio is to be saluted for giving us the February 2021 Graz venture on CD ... All involved in the Graz performance have done their jobs with such dedication ... [But] I struggle to find any reason to recommend the new issue above the Arthaus DVD ... The intensity Currentzis secured from the Vienna Symphony and the cast of David Pountney's production in Bregenz carries greater dramatic immediacy than the admirable clarity and security of Roland Kluttig and his forces".
International record review
2011 September
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Richard Whitehouse
2011 September
"Vurdering: IRR outstanding" - "David Pountney could rarely, if ever, be accused of half measures, but here he resists the temptation to overload the narrative with specious "meanings" in favour of a rounded yet immediate conception ... The cast itself is a strong one ... While Teodor Currentzis secures a committed and idiomatic response from the Vienna Symphony Orchestra ... The production has been expertly filmed ... It all adds up to a package that does full justice to one of the most important of recent stage premieres".
BBC music magazine
2011 June
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David Nice
2011 June
"We melt at Svetlana Doneva's mesmerising delivery of Katja's unaccompanied number. The two leads match more-than-acting with top vocal quality ... Currentzis conducts with a focus brilliantly rendered in the Neos sound".
Vurdering (performance): 5/5.
Vurdering (picture & sound): 5/5.
The gramophone
2018 September
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Guy Rickards
2018 September
"Editor's choice: Strassberger's production stands up well on its own terms ... The Russian honours go to the singers, especially Nadezhda Babintseva as Lisa and Natalia Karlova as Martha ... A highly commendable issue: with fascism on the march again in central Europe, and offshoots sprouting obscenely from North America to Russia, Weinberg's opera is increasingly relevant".