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Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla

Weinberg - The Passenger

Deutsche Grammophon
Release Date: January 31, 2025

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1 Das Ufer in der Ferne ist nicht mehr zu sehn  
2 Drei Jahre sind im Nu vorbei  
3 Was ist los mit Ihnen, Aufseherin Franz?  
4 Marta? Kann das Marta sein?  
5 Negro paredón  
6 Das ist alles Unsinn!  
7 Sei still, sei still  
8 Angst hat mir nachts die Kehle zugeschnürt  
9 Für ein schweres Vergehen, da kam sie in den "Todesblock"  
10 Fort, Gespenster der Vergangenheit!  
11 Appell  
12 Wie langweilig ist’s hier, Hans!  
13 Ty ukryt ot nyeba reshyotkoy  
14 Du hast gut gelernt, mein Kindchen  
15 Ta Niemka patrzy na mnie tak badawczo  
16 Novenkiye, novenkiye, kha, kha, kha!  
17 Prokhodite, ustawaytes, podrugi!  
18 Moi, je m’appelle Yvette  
19 Další den minul, uplynul  
20 Vspomnyat li nas kogda-nibud lyudi?  
21 Swiety Boze, Jezu Chryste!  
22 Mais pourqoui tant de rage dans ta voix?  
23 Skoreye, vody!  
24 „Geliebter, mein geliebter Tadek!“  
25 Spasibo... Vyruchila...  
26 Heil! Du kennst dich mit Geigen aus, verdammte Dinger!  
27 Ty zyjesz?  
28 Ach, ihr kennt euch?  
29 Beregites!  
30 Twój raport dotarl na czas do Krakowa  
31 Pozdravlyayu, Marta!  
32 Jesliby zawezwal mnie do siebie Bóg  
33 Du vest lebn, dos iz emes  
34 Hör mal, Marta, wenn du möchtest, besucht dich morgen hier dein Tadeusz  
35 Tiene razón, Tadeusz tiene razón  
36 Bon, après moi répète: je vis  
37 Ty, dolinushka dolina, razdolye shirokoye  
38 Ne zabyvayte nas!  
39 Es ist hier so schön, und du bleibst in der Kabine  
40 Walter, du denkst nur voll Sorge an deine Karriere  
41 Your Good Health, Sir  
42 Was ist los, Lisa?  
43 Spiel tüchtig auf, Geiger!  
44 J. S. Bach: Chaconne in D Minor  
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Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla is one of today’s leading ambassadors for the long-neglected music of the Polish-born Jewish composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-96). Following on from her critically lauded readings of several of his major orchestral works, Deutsche Grammophon is now delighted to present a new recording of the first of Weinberg’s seven operas, The Passenger, with the Lithuanian conductor again at the helm. The album captures the version of this “shattering Holocaust opera” (The Critic) staged at Madrid’s Teatro Real in spring 2024, a revival of the world premiere production directed by fellow Weinberg champion David Pountney (a Teatro Real co production with the Bregenz Festival, Teatr Wielki and English National Opera). 

Making her Madrid operatic debut, Gražinyte-Tyla conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Real and a cast including soprano Amanda Majeski (Marta), mezzo-soprano Daveda Karanas (Lisa), tenor Nikolai Schukoff (Walter) and baritone Gyula Orendt (Tadeusz). Violinist Stephen Waarts doubles as Tadeusz for the instrumental solo. The filmed version of The Passenger is available to stream now on STAGE+. The audio album is set for digital release on 24 January 2025, shortly before International Holocaust Remembrance Day (27 January), which marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945, and honours the memory of all victims of Nazism.

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    Posted At: December 1, 2022
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    Posted At: November 23, 2020

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    Posted At: January 26, 2020

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    Posted At: December 17, 2019

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    Posted At: November 20, 2019

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    Posted At: June 21, 2019

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