Jennifer O'Loughlin is soprano soloist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in Handel's Messiah on Naxos, conducted by Edward Polochick.
Jennifer O'Loughlin is soprano soloist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in Handel's Messiah on Naxos, conducted by Edward Polochick.
Joseph Haydn: Acide – Festa teatrale, Hob.XXVIII:1 [An opera fragment (libretto by Giovanni Ambrogio Migliavacca) composed for the celebrations of the wedding between Count Anton Esterházy and Countess Maria Theresia Erdödy, and performed at the Esterházy residence at Eisenstadt on 11th January 1763. This recording includes the composer’s later additions for a planned but never realized second production in 1773.]
Leonard Bernstein: Mass
Company of Music
Tölzer Knabenchor
Chorus sine nomine
Absolute Ensemble
Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederosterreich
Kristjan Järvi
Championing love and personal heroism in the face of ecclesiastical oppression and political chicanery, Wagner’s third opera explores characteristic themes with terrific energy which culminates in the eponymous Roman tribune’s famous prayer to the gods of his fatherland, followed by a riot which prefigures the young composer’s own abortive career as a firebrand and revolutionary. Within the timeless and elegant minimalism of Jorge Lavelli’s production, Torsten Kerl brings ringing authority to the title role, supported by the experienced Wagnerian Pinchas Steinberg.