Hi everybody. Could you give me your opinion on which is the best recording of Die Fledermaus available in CD? I like this operetta and do not know where to begin looking. Thanks for your help. -- ______________________ Dinko Gonzalez Trotter di...@daytona.tunl.duke.edu _____________________
Probably tthe greatest recording of anything ever done and will probably garner more agreement is the old London/Decca conducted by Clemens Krause. One of the great achievements of anyone's life. Great New Year's Day concert as filler too! Jay
>Hi everybody. Could you give me your opinion on which >is the best recording of Die Fledermaus available in >CD? I like this operetta and do not know where to >begin looking. Thanks for your help. -- >______________________ >Dinko Gonzalez Trotter >di...@daytona.tunl.duke.edu >_____________________
In article <3sc95o$...@news.duke.edu>, di...@phy.duke.edu (Dinko Gonzalez Trotter) writes:
>Hi everybody. Could you give me your opinion on which is the best recording >of Die Fledermaus available in CD? I like this operetta and do not know >where to begin looking. Thanks for your help. >-- >______________________ >Dinko Gonzalez Trotter >di...@daytona.tunl.duke.edu >_____________________
Try the VPO/Previn recording with Te Kanawa. It really sounds like if you are in the opera house!
Hi everybody. Could you give me your opinion on which is the best recording of Die Fledermaus available in CD? I like this operetta and do not know where to begin looking. Thanks for your help. -- ______________________ Dinko Gonzalez Trotter di...@daytona.tunl.duke.edu ------------------------------------------------------------ Trouble is I'm not sure if my favorite all-round recording of Fledermaus is in-print. It was on Angel/EMI conducted by Willi Boskovsky, a former 1st violilnist of the Vienna Phil, who was a famous Strauss conductor. Rothenberger, Gedda, Fassbaender, Fischer-Dieskau and Berry are in the cast. Another excellent recording is on DG conducted by Carlos Kleiber and performed with joyous good humor. It's only flaw--and it's a big one--is that the prince is sung by a man instead of a mezzo-soprano. Very campy, but a mess is made of Orlovsky's wonderful aria. If you don't mind mono sound from the early 50s, there's a famous recording on London/Decca conducted by Clemens Krauss and an excellent cast of the period. Also performed with great panache. "Es lebe Champagner der Erste."
Fmermaid <fmerm...@aol.com> wrote: >Trouble is I'm not sure if my favorite all-round recording of Fledermaus >is in-print. It was on Angel/EMI conducted by Willi Boskovsky, a former >1st violilnist of the Vienna Phil, who was a famous Strauss conductor. >Rothenberger, Gedda, Fassbaender, Fischer-Dieskau and Berry are in the >cast.
I haven't seen this on cd either, but does music have to be on cd for it to be worth buying? This is my favorite recording as well. It's not just the cast that makes it though - it is the whole mood. Boskovsky was as close to a reincarnation of Strauss as we could hope for - down to conducting with his violin. He manages to get more charm out of Strauss music than anyone else I've ever heard, and given a Viennese orchestra he can do wonders. This one recording excells in charm and _Gemuethlichkeit_. The only problem: the dialogue has been abridged.
>Another excellent recording is on DG conducted by Carlos Kleiber >and performed with joyous good humor. It's only flaw--and it's a big >one--is that the prince is sung by a man instead of a mezzo-soprano. Very >campy, but a mess is made of Orlovsky's wonderful aria.
I would say that the main flaw of this recording is that it lacks charm. Technically, there are no problems here and the playing and the cast are excellent. But there's more to Strauss than that. Kleiber does not have the feel.
>If you don't mind >mono sound from the early 50s, there's a famous recording on London/Decca >conducted by Clemens Krauss and an excellent cast of the period. Also >performed with great panache. "Es lebe Champagner der Erste."
Yes, this is quite good. But it has no dialogue, if I remember correctly, and thus quite abruptly jumps from one segment to the next without any dramatic flow.
I've added r.m.c.r. to the cross-postings to see if anyone there has any knowledge of these or other good recordings. I'm not sure why the original poster began this thread on r.m.c. in the first place since it seems to concern only recordings and not the music.
>>Books are a triviality. Life alone is great. -- Thomas Carlyle >Do you still think it is "Der" Fledermaus? Better check again! >I think it is Die Fledermaus.
YEAH! ARE YOU A MAUS OR A MANN (die Maus, der Mann)
Dinko Gonzalez Trotter (di...@phy.duke.edu) wrote: : Hi everybody. Could you give me your opinion on which is the best recording : of Die Fledermaus available in CD? I like this operetta and do not know : where to begin looking. Thanks for your help. : -- : ______________________ : Dinko Gonzalez Trotter : di...@daytona.tunl.duke.edu : _____________________ Although the other replies to these inquiry are fine performances, I believe that the best is the set with Rita Streich, Schwarzkopf, and Eric Kunz with Karajan conducting. It was on a cheap EMI 2-disc set a few years ago. Streich is superb and although she has her detractors, Schwarzkopf is still a great countess.
: Hi everybody. Could you give me your opinion on which is the best : recording : of Die Fledermaus available in CD? I like this operetta and do not know : where to begin looking. Thanks for your help. : -- Honestly, DF is not one of my favoirite pieces. I loved it the first two times I saw it but find it now to be trivial. Guess I listen to too much Verdi and Wagner. Oh well. But, if I was to recommend a recording I would go with either the TeKanawa (Philips) or, the "Gala Recording" (Decca/London) conducted by Herbert Von Karajan. This unusual recording features a Glal segment at Prince ORlofsky's party, in which Jussi Bjorling, Mario Del Monaco and Birgit Nillson (singing, of all things, "I could have danced all night," from My fair lady") is damned interesting, to say the least :) Paul J. Pelkonen
I would like to add a _videotape_. Some years ago Thorne EMI taped a performance with Te Kanawa, Herman Prey and Bejamin Luxon, and conducted by Placido Domingo. All music aside, its topical and other references--in German, English and some fractured French--make for a lively satire of the form and of the opera in general. It's a gem of an evening's entertainment. I secured mine through A&B Sound in Vancouver; however, it may not be readily available in the U.S. It is _not_ the Te Kanawa CD recording.
J Mohundro <jmohun...@aol.com> writes: >I would like to add a _videotape_. Some years ago Thorne EMI taped a >performance with Te Kanawa, Herman Prey and Bejamin Luxon, and conducted >by Placido Domingo. All music aside, its topical and other references--in
Didn't they tape another performance also -- same cast, but with Zubin Mehta conducting? I seem to remember Ch. 5 in NYC showing this every New Year's Eve (before they went Fox). It was Te Kanawa, Prey, Luxon, and Robert Tear as Orlofsky, and it was definitely Mehta, not Domingo. Otherwise, same deal: Covent Garden, text sung in German(where applicable) and spoken in the language of the singer. But I've never seen it since about 1980...perhaps it was a dream. Sarah
In rec.music.classical Hilary Bates <hba...@amgen.com> said:
>It's DIE Fledermaus!!!!!!!!!
I still remember the day I was driving through Connecticut listening to the local public radio station as the DJ announced the "Overture to Dye Flatermaus."
I sometimes wish the damned bat *would* die. One of the most awful music-going experiences in my life was to attend (I discovered too late) an unspeakably wretched English language production of Fledermaus at Wolf Trap on what turned out to be the hottest summer night in the DC are in half a century (yes, people literally died from the heat. After the performance, I felt that perhaps I would have been better off...) -- Bruce Recant brec...@worldbank.org The World Bank Washington, DC
In article <3t1f0n$...@minerva.worldbank.org>, brec...@worldbank.org (Bruce Recant) writes: > I sometimes wish the damned bat *would* die. One of the most awful > music-going experiences in my life was to attend (I discovered too late) >[...]
You should stay away from Vienna next Christmas. On Dec 31 you have a choice between Fledermaus at the Staatsoper, and no fewer that 2 performances at the Volksoper... (They are timed so that you can see two, but not all three on the same day...)
