Album
   
Album title
David and Bathsheba
Performer
Trondheim Symphony Orchestra
Tõnu Kaljuste, conductor
Anna Einarsson, mezzo soprano,
Johannes Weisser, baritone
Nils Harald Sødal, tenor
Fredrik Akselberg, tenor
Lars Johansson Brissman, bass
Trondheim Symphony Vocal Ensemble
Catalogue #
2L-084-SABD
EAN13
7041888516521
ISRC-code
NOMPP1206010-190

Disc 1
Hybrid SACD
MCH 5.1 DSD
Stereo DSD
Disc 2

Pure Audio Blu-ray
DTS HD MA 192kHz/24 bit 5.1
DTS HD MA 96kHz/24 bit 7.1
LPCM 192kHz/24 bit STEREO
mShuttle: FLAC 96kHz + MP3
Region: ABC - worldwide


Release date
October 2012
Recording date
August 2011
Location
Frikirken, Trondheim, Norway
Original source
DXD (352.8kHz/24bit)
 

David and Bathsheba
an Opera-Oratorio in Two Acts by Ståle Kleiberg

The Biblical story of David and Bathsheba has a lot of present-day relevance. In this story, individual emotions interact with political actions and their consequences. Fundamental ethical questions are thus being raised, on the macro- as well as the microlevel. And not least, the story illustrates how these two levels may be connected.

This is certainly also the case in Ståle Kleiberg's opera-oratorio "David and Bathsheba", where form and content embody the multi-layered complexity that makes up a great work of art. Yet the music is highly communicative, speaking to a broad audience in a direct and immediate way.

From the opening bars, Kleiberg's music establishes a very particular orchestral and harmonic colour, one effect of which is to ’place’ the events beyond our reach. It would be trivial to describe this distancing of the action as a mode of exoticism, but there is nonetheless a whiff of the East about the tone of the work, evocative of the time and a distant place. This is anything but a retreat into some oneiric fantasy world, removed from our contemporary reality. Rather the remoteness of the setting, together with Kleiberg's non-naturalistic approach to the drama, gives the work something of the character of myth. This enables it to speak to us as all myths speak to us, of deeper truths.

The present recording is a successor of 2L's Grammy-nominated release from 2009, Treble and Bass: Concertos by Ståle Kleiberg. Like the previous disc, the present one has been made in close cooperation with the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, this time conducted by Estonian maestro Tõnu Kaljuste.

Facebook PHOTO ALBUM from the recording sessions

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