('The Town Across the Water')
Opera-oratorio
Words by Hermann Kasack
Music by Hans Vogt
Other parts taken by Charlotte Betcke, Margot Fehling
Dorothea Georgi , Elisabeth Gobber
Joshard Daus , Giinter Gennersch
Theodor Henn , Horst Sellentin
Chorus and Orchestra of Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk.
Hamburg
(Chorus-Master. Otto Franze)
Conducted BY WILHELM SCHÜCHTER
Producer, Otto Kurth
Hans Vogt was born at Danzig in 1911. His opera-oratorio Die Stadt hinter dem Strom is based on Hermann Kasack 's novel of the same name, which has been published in an English translation by Peter de Mendelssohn under the title Th. City beyond the River. It it a version of the Orpheus legend; ' Orpheus ' being Robert Lindhoff , who receives a summons to record events in a strange city which proves to be an intermediate realm between life and death. There he meets Anna, the girl with whom he had been in love; she has committed suicide and represents Eurydice H.R,

The Narrator - Richard Lauffen
Robert (baritone) - Hans-Herbert Fiedler
Anna (soprano) - Margot Guilleaume
The Great ' Don ' (bass) - Hermann Rieth
Perkdng (lyric tenor) - Helmuth Kretschmar
Leonhard (mezzo-soprano) - Ursula Zollenkopf
A Novelist (buffo tenor) - Kurt Marschner
An Agent (bass) - Sigmund Roth
The Forewoman (contralto) - Adelheid Berger