Wiener Staatsoper Live 1933-1944 Vol 10 Excerpts from WAGNER • PUCCINI • VERDI

Description: “In 1929…On the recommendation of Clemens Krauss, the Viennese engineer Hermann May was entrusted [with] acoustical effects….[he then] indulged in a personal hobby: he smuggled microphones onto the stage and recorded selected moments of opera performances [beginning] in 1933 and continued unimpeded even after the 1938 Anschluss, May worked with quite primitive methods and, with his equipment, was able to capture only segments of performances, lasting four minutes at best….Listening to all forty-eight discs in Koch-Schwann’s WIENER STAATSOPER set is a daunting but immensely rewarding task when undertaken a little at a time. The documents collected here abound in vocal riches for which the adjective ‘priceless’ seems appropriate for once….many excerpts fade out before a specific musical episode has concluded or, even more frustratingly, before fading back in, several measures or pages later. Thus the listening process becomes a sort of operatic coitus interruptus….the accompanying booklets contain artist and composer indices, along with a chronological list of performances, brief biographies, and artist photos….” - Roger Pines, THE OPERA QUARTERLY, Vol. 14, #1, 1997 Edition WIENER STAATSOPER LIVE48 discs in 24 volumes Volume 10 [2 discs]Jan Kiepura • Esther Rethy • Alfred JergerAlexander Kipnis • Ludwig Hofmann Excerpts from: Le nozze di Figaro (Mozart) • Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Wagner)Carmen (Bizet) • Turandot (Puccini)Don Carlo (Verdi) • Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor (Nicolai)Tannhäuser (Wagner) • Siegfried (Wagner)Götterdammerung (Wagner) • Falstaff (Verdi) • Gianni Schicchi (Puccini) Jan Kiepura • Esther Rethy • Alfred Jerger • Alexander Kipnis Ludwig Hofmann • Marhieu Ahlersmeyer • Maria Reining • Maria CebotriMartha Rohs • Viorica Ursuleac • Franz Völker • Maria NemethHilde Konetzni • Elena Nikolaidi • Herbert Alsen • Vera MansingerMax Lorenz • Enid Azantho • Georg Monthy • Dora Komarek and other soloists Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper conducted byKarl Böhm • Clemens Krauss • Karl AlwinHugo Reichenberger • Bruno Walter • Felix von WeingartnerHans Knappertsbusch • Wilhelm Furtwängler • Wilhelm Loibner

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