Ståle Kleiberg – David and Bathsheba [DSF DSD256] (2011)

Artist: Ståle Kleiberg

Album: David and Bathsheba
Genre: Classical, Opera, Oratorio

Year: 2011
Format: DSF DSD256

Size : 6.98 GB

Info : 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.
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.

Tracklist:

01. Act I, Introduction Orchestra 03:05
02. Act I, Psalm 8 Chorus 06:21
03. Act I, Scene I, My Lord, your servant Uriah the Hittite Joab, Chorus 01:38
04. Act I, Scene II, Who is this that looks out like the dawn? David 05:11
05. Act I, Scene II, Who is she? Joab, David 02:40
06. Act I, Scene II, Come to me Bathsheba David, Bathsheba 02:06
07. Act I, Scene II, It is the Lord who gave you your authority Chorus 02:29
08. Act I, Scene III, Uriah! Have you not a young wife? Joab, Uriah 01:42
09. Act I, Scene IV, He would not come, my Lord Joab, David 02:42
10. Act I, Scene V, O Husband you are lost to me Bathsheba 06:26
11. Act I, Scene VI, Eat! Drink! Uriah, David 04:41
12. Act I, Scene VI, Down with the poor and honest man! Bathsheba, Uriah, Chorus 04:19
13. Act II, Scene I, You are welcome Nathan Joab, David, Nathan 02:08
14. Act II, Scene I, There are two men in your city Nathan, David 04:40
15. Act II, Scene I, Psalm 51 David, Chorus 07:33
16. Act II, Scene II, You are come to tell me my son is dead Bathsheba, Joab 02:49
17. Act II, Scene II, Why has the fruit of my orchard failed? Bathsheba 04:29
18. Act II, Scene III, Where are the robes you have torn? Bathsheba, David 06:28
19. Act II, Scene III, The breath in our nostrils Chorus 03:48

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