{"id":656,"date":"2019-10-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musikzeitung.ch\/allgemein\/genfer-produktion-von-saint-saens-ascanio-geehrt\/"},"modified":"2019-10-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T23:00:00","slug":"genfer-produktion-von-saint-saens-ascanio-geehrt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musikzeitung.ch\/en\/anlaesse\/2019\/10\/genfer-produktion-von-saint-saens-ascanio-geehrt","title":{"rendered":"Geneva production of Saint-Sa\u00ebns' \"Ascanio\" honored"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Conductor Guillaume Tourniaire. Photo: Sarah Matray<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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On October 4, the The German Record Critics' Award 2019 annual prizes <\/a>has been announced. He writes in his press release: \"134 titles were proposed by the overall jury, 129 of which made it onto the longlist, 11 of which were selected for an award by the annual committee. The spectrum of styles and genres ranges from symphonic music, pop, soul, jazz, opera and contemporary electronic music to choral and world music.\"<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Rediscovery of a masterpiece<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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One of the awards goes to the Geneva Ascanio<\/em>-production. Michael Stegemann, jury member, explains the selection as follows: \"Camille Saint-Sa\u00ebns composed thirteen operas, but for a long time only Samson et Dalila<\/em>. There are now six more on CD. The conductor Guillaume Tourniaire had already presented himself in 2008 with the one-act opera H\u00e9l\u00e8ne<\/em> has distinguished himself as a committed and competent Saint-Sa\u00ebns interpreter. With this recording of the five-act opera premiered in Paris in 1890 Ascanio<\/em> he has now succeeded in rediscovering a masterpiece in a rousing, source-accurate manner. The ensemble's young soloists are excellent, and the choir and orchestra of the Geneva Conservatoire are superb. The entire range of Saint-Sa\u00ebns' operatic composition can be experienced: tableaux in the style of the Grand Op\u00e9ra are juxtaposed with arias and scenes, some lyrical, some dramatic, which are just as vocally diverse as the refined colorfulness of the orchestra. In the ballet music, which lasts for almost half an hour, Saint-Sa\u00ebns repeatedly echoes original music from the 16th century: Ascanio<\/em> - based on a novel by Alexandre Dumas - is more or less the sequel to the Benvenuto Cellini<\/em> by Berlioz.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Further annual prizes 2019 <\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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The awards (the qualitative assessments come from the annual prize jury) were given to<\/p>\n