SVEN-AKE JOHANSSON & ALEXANDER VON SCHLIPPENBACH - ... ÜBER URSACHE UND WIRKUNG DER MEINUNGSVERSCHIEDENHEITEN BEIM TURMBAU ZU BABEL (2LP+DVD)

"A music drama performed in the Hebbel Theatre Berlin in 1994. Players: Shelley Hirsch (voc), Sven-Åke Johansson (voc, acc), Anne LeBaron (harp), Wolfgang Fuchs (sax, cl), Dietmar Diesner (sax), Tristan Honsinger (clo), Alexander von Schlippenbach (p), Paul Lovens (perc, dr), Regina Baumgart (dance)." (label info) "... Über Ursache ..." was performed three times between 1986 and 1994. The audio recording of the premiere at the Stuttgart State Opera was released by FMP as a standard double LP in 1989. The 1994 audio and video recordings from the Hebbel Theatre in Berlin are presented here for the first time, packaged as a lavish box set with two LPs, a DVD, a 16-page booklet with photos and liner notes by Johansson, Konrad Heidkamp and Peter Ablinger, plus 20-page libretto - an edition that this spectacular work has deserved for a long time. Edition of 400.