Victor Urbancic - Vorahnung Marina Colda & Julia Tinhof

• Victor Urbancic (1903 - 1958):
• 1Urbancic: Frühling02:48
• 2Urbancic: Sternenglanz02:20
• 3Urbancic: Lenzwonne02:35
• 4Urbancic: Meine höchste Lust02:25
• 5Urbancic: Über die Heide01:38
• 6Urbancic: Fallendes Laub03:55
• 7Urbancic: Sonne wirst du trinken02:36
• 8Urbancic: Vorabend01:32
• 9Urbancic: Vision der Schönheit03:44
• 10Urbancic: Die Elfe01:38
• 11Urbancic: Vorahnung02:46
• 12Urbancic: Freundliche Vision02:48
• 13Urbancic: Frühlingsregen03:16
• 14Urbancic: Traurige Weisheit04:05
• 15Urbancic: Ebene im Vorfrühling03:17
• 16Urbancic: Fäden02:25
• 17Urbancic: Mond in der Kammer02:16
• 18Urbancic: Erster Schnee01:47
• 19Urbancic: Elisabeth 101:46
• 20Urbancic: Elisabeth 202:00
• 21Urbancic: Elisabeth 302:07
• 22Urbancic: Glocken02:31
• 23Urbancic: Handan harms og tára02:30
• Total Runtime58:45

Info for Victor Urbancic - Vorahnung

Born in Vienna in 1903, Victor Urbancic held a variety of positions in German and Austrian musical life, including Kapellmeister at the Stadttheater Mainz, professor of music theory, piano and accompaniment and deputy director at the Graz Conservatory, as well as lecturer in musicology at the University of Graz before he was forced into exile in 1938 by the Nazi regime (since his wife Melitta Grünbaum was Jewish). After unsuccessful attempts to get a job in Switzerland or the USA, Urbancic decided – made possible by a fellow student – to flee to Iceland, where he worked at the Reykjavík Music School within a very short time, and over the years became a key figure in the Icelandic music scene while teaching at what then became the Reykjavík Conservatory. The Austrian soprano Marina Colda, together with Julia Tinhof, piano, presents songs by Victor Urbancic on this album by the title “Vorahnung” (Foreshadowing). The title is borrowed from the eponymous song from 1920 to the sombre lyrics by Edward Mörike, which against the background of Urbancic’s life story seems like an actual premonition of his fate. The vast majority of these songs were created in the time before his exile, as he was confronted with an extremely demanding workload in Iceland, and adhere to a somewhat late Romanticistic style of composing.

Marina Colda, soprano
Julia Tinhof, piano

Marina Colda
Born in Carinthia, soprano Marina Margaritta Colda has been singing since early childhood and was selected for music theatre projects with children in her teens (including Papagena in Mozart’s Magic Flute, Peppi the Rosebud in Mayathe Bee by Bruno Bjelinski – both at the Villach Congress Centre, Mexican Death in the rock opera Maximilian at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt). At the age of eighteen she began studying concert singing and later vocal pedagogy at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. During her studies she already performed in various roles: (among others: Princess in Puss in Boots by César Cui, Papagena in The Magic Flute and Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro by Mozart, Ida in Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss, Sandmännchen and Taumännchen in Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck, Lucy in The Telephone or L’amour á trois by Gian Carlo Menotti, Musetta in La Bohème by Puccini, Sophie in Die weiße Rose by Udo Zimmermann). She has also been engaged in oratorio (soprano solo in Mozart’s Requiem at the Schottenkirche, soprano solo in Orff’s Carmina Burana at the Casino Baden). She appeared in the opera Brundibár by Hans Krása (who was murdered by the National Socialists in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1944), which was performed in the course of a memorial service on the occasion of the Day of Remembrance against Violence and Racism in the Austrian Parliament and broadcast live on ORF. Further engagements in the genre of musical theatre followed: Marie in Grüezi – Der wilde Mann by Robert Stolz with the Ensemble Mutz (Musiktheater Zürich) at the “Weisser Wind” house in Zurich, Adele in Die Fledermaus by J. Strauss at theKUMST (Kulturverein Marchfeld Strasshof) with the Ensemble Oper@Tee, Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel by Humperdinck at Oper in der Krypta. The versatile singer has also performed alongside well-known actors. After playing and singing Die Jugend in Der Bauer als Millionär by Raimund at the Theater in der Josefstadt under the direction of Josef Köpplinger, she was invited to Kobersdorf for the Schlossspiele under the artistic direction of Wolfgang Böck, where she impersonated Nannette in Das Mädl aus der Vorstadt by Nestroy (director: Beverly Blankenship). Most recently she appeared as Rita in the operetta Die Rose des Kaisers by Paul Hertel, directed by Gernot Kranner, at the Theater Center Forum and the Kaiserbahnhof Laxenburg. In the last few years she has repeatedly dealt in depth with songs by female composers. For example, she sang selected songs in the context of the exhibition “Musica Femina” at the Orangerie Schönbrunn as well as in a concert programme on Clara Schumann, which was arranged at the Klaviergalerie Wien for the Soroptimistinnen Association. In the course of these projects she dealt with song repertoire by Fanny Hensel, Clara Schumann, Amy Beach, Cecile Chaminade and especially Pauline Viardot. In 2023 Marina Colda, accompanied by the pianist Julia Tinhof, recorded songs by the Austrian composer Victor Urbancic, who emigrated to Iceland in 1938. These recordings were released under the title Vorahnung by the Viennese label Gramola.The album release concert took place at the Exilarte Center for Banned Music. Julia Stemberger also read poems by Victor Urbancic's wife, Melitta Urbancic. With a selection of pieces from the album, the artsong duo is also touring Iceland in July 2023.

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