While there is much for fans of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau to admire in this set of both the operas of Alban Berg, it is impossible to recommend these recordings. Fischer-Dieskau is a commanding presence in Wozzeck: powerfully sung and deeply affecting, his portrayal of the doomed everyman still stands with the best ever recorded. And Fischer ...
Stop whatever you're doing and put on the ninth track of the second disc. That's the finale of the third act of Strauss' Arabella from a Salzburg Festival performance on July 29, 1958, and it's the moment when Lisa della Casa's Arabella returns to Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's Mandryka and pledges herself body and soul to him. It's one of the supreme ...
While baritone Tito Gobbi is primarily known for nineteenth century Italian repertoire, his professional breakthrough came when he sang the Italian premiere of Wozzeck in Rome in 1942 in Italian. This CD preserves a performance of the opera from 1954, made with the RAI Orchestra and Chorus, Rome. Conductor Nino Sanzogno obviously "gets" the opera ...
The August 6, 1966, premiere of Hans Werner Henze's opera Die Bassariden at the Salzburg Festival has, over time, become regarded as a justly famous event. It isn't often that you can travel back in time and take a front row seat for such a show, but in the case of Orfeo's first-time release of the recording of this event, you can. This production ...
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