Weber: Die drei Pintos (Completed by Mahler)

Weber: Die drei Pintos (Completed by Mahler)

Weber: Die drei Pintos (Completed by Mahler)
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Performer: Ales Jenis
Composer: Carl Maria von Weber
Conductor: Paolo Arrivabeni
Performer: Sophie Marilley
Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra
Performer: Barbara Zechmeister
Performer: Sinead Campbell
Performer: Eric Shaw
Performer: Peter Furlong
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-10-19
Music Label: Naxos
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Ensemble: 'Leeret Die Becher, Mutige Zecher!'
  2. Rondo A La Polacca: 'Was Ich Dann Tu', Das Frag' Ich Mich'
  3. Terzettino: 'Ei, Wer Hatte Das Gedacht!'
  4. Romanze Vom Verliebten Kater Mansor: 'Leise Weht' Es, Leise Wallte'
  5. Seguidilla A Dos: 'Wir, Die Den Musen Dienen'
  6. Terzet: 'Also Frisch Das Werk Begonnen!'
  7. Finale: 'Auf Das Wohlergeh'n Der Gaste!'
Music CD 2
  1. Entr' Acte
  2. Introduction Und Ensemble: 'Wisst Ihr Nicht, Was Wir Heir Sollen?'
  3. Ariette: 'Hochste Lust Ist Treues Lieben!'
  4. Arie: 'Ach, Wenn Das Du Doch Vermochtest!'
  5. Duett: 'Ja, Das Wort, Ich Will Es Sprechen'
  6. Terzett: Finale: 'Geschwind Nur Von Hinnen!'
  7. Lied Mit Chor: 'Schmucket Die Halle Mit Bluten Und Zweigen!'
  8. Duett: 'Nun, Da Sind Wir'
  9. Terzettino: 'Madchen, Ich Leide Heisse Liebespein!'
  10. Ariette: 'Ein Madchen Verloren, Was Macht Man Sich D'raus?'
  11. Rondo-Terzett: 'Ihr, Der So Edel'
  12. 'Habt Ihr Es Denn Schon Vernommen?'
  13. 'Mit Lieblichen Blumen, Mit Duftenden Bluten'
  14. Finale A: 'Was Wollt Ihr?'
  15. Finale B: 'Heil Sei Euch, Don Pantaleone!'

Music reviews of Weber: Die drei Pintos (Completed by Mahler)

Music Review: 'Mahler's Only Opera?'
Rating: 3 Stars

This review's title is that used by this CD's booklet-note writer, Michael Kennedy, and is apt because this unfinished opera by Carl Maria von Weber, begun in 1820 but dropped in favor of work on 'Euryanthe,' was indeed completed by Gustav Mahler in 1887 and premièred in Leipzig (where Mahler was Artur Nikisch's assistant) with Mahler at the helm in early 1888. It was initially successful but dropped out of sight after only a few years. Any current interest in this opera almost surely derives from the today's feverish interest in anything to do with Mahler. It has been recorded before much more successfully in 1976 with a cast that included Lucia Popp, Werner Hollweg, Hermann Prey and Kurt Moll under Gary Bertini, on the RCA label. That recording is no longer available, alas, but copies could probably be found with a diligent search.

This is a live recording from a production of the Wexford Festival, in Ireland, which specializes in mounting rare and unusual operas--I recently reviewed their nice production, in its original Czech, of Jaromir Weinberger's 'Svanda Dudák' ('Schwanda the Bagpiper'). The present production is a merely OK performance, though, I'm afraid. The singers in general are a notch or two below world class and the orchestra sounds underpowered. There are intrusive stage sounds. Further, there is no libretto included, although there is a fairly good synopsis in the booklet.

As to Mahler's involvement in completing the opera, Kennedy's booklet notes are very helpful. In brief, Weber sketched only seven of the projected seventeen numbers and never came back to it. After his death his wife sent them to Meyerbeer to see if he could complete it, but he returned them to the family in 1847. Weber's grandson, Carl, gave them to Mahler who agreed to use the sketches as the basis for his own completion; Carl set about revising the fairly inept existing libretto. Mahler originally thought to finish Acts I and II and have Act III spoken, but then changed his mind. His final version consists of 21 numbers. He used all of Weber's original numbers but not in their original positions and then supplemented them with little-known pieces by Weber which he arranged and rescored. He wrote a completely new entr'acte (which sounds for all the world like original Weber to my ears although there are perhaps some Mahlerian orchestration fingerprints here and there). Mahler's work is essentially undetectable to any but musicians immersed in the styles of both Weber and Mahler. If Mahler's notion was to leave no significant personal traces on the work, he certainly succeeded.

Finally, I would have to say that if a musiclover really wants to hear a performance of this comic opera, they would do well first to try to find a copy of the 1970s recording. Otherwise, this one will do, at least in terms of one being able to hear what Weber and Mahler came up with.

CD1=39:07
CD2=75:15

J Scott Morrison
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Description of Weber: Die drei Pintos (Completed by Mahler)

Left unfinished at the composer?s death, the comic opera, Die drei Pintos, whose plot centers on an attempt to sabotage an arranged marriage, had to wait until around the time of Weber?s centennial before the first fully successful completion, by the twenty-six year old Gustav Mahler, who also conducted the première in 1888. In the absence of sketches for almost two-thirds of the opera, Mahler reconstructed a performing edition from the extant vocal parts by orchestrating the fragments and, additionally, rescoring unfamiliar and unpublished music of Weber. While the completed work contains music almost entirely by Weber, the rescoring and the conception are entirely Mahlerian.

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