Special offer. Strauss, R: Arabella
Julia Varady (Arabella), Helen Donath (Zdenka), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Mandryka), Walter Berry (Waldner), Helga Schmidt (Adelaide), Elfrieda Hobarth (Adelaide), Adolf Dallapozza (Matteo), Hermann Winkler (Elemer), Klaus-Jürgen Küper (Dominik), Hermann Becht (Lamoral), Doris Soffel (Kartenaufschlägerin),...
Complete except for a brief cut in Matteo's part in Act 3, Sawallisch's 1981 Orfeo recording of Arabella has been easily fitted onto two CDs.
Sawallisch is the most experienced conductor of...
Special offer. Strauss, R: Arabella
Julia Varady (Arabella), Helen Donath (Zdenka), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Mandryka), Walter Berry (Waldner), Helga Schmidt (Adelaide), Elfrieda Hobarth (Adelaide), Adolf Dallapozza (Matteo), Hermann Winkler (Elemer), Klaus-Jürgen Küper (Dominik), Hermann Becht (Lamoral), Doris Soffel (Kartenaufschlägerin),...
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Complete except for a brief cut in Matteo's part in Act 3, Sawallisch's 1981 Orfeo recording of Arabella has been easily fitted onto two CDs.
Sawallisch is the most experienced conductor of...
About
Recored in 1980
Artists
Julia Varady (Arabella), Helen Donath (Zdenka), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Mandryka), Walter Berry (Waldner), Helga Schmidt (Adelaide), Elfrieda Hobarth (Adelaide), Adolf Dallapozza (Matteo), Hermann Winkler (Elemer), Klaus-Jürgen Küper (Dominik), Hermann Becht (Lamoral), Doris Soffel (Kartenaufschlägerin), Arno Lemberg (Welko)
Bavarian State Orchestra & Opera Chorus, Wolfgang Sawallisch
Contents and tracklist
- Doris Soffel (mezzo-soprano), Arno Lemberg (vocals), Karl Prapotnik (vocals), Helmut Schmitt (vocals), Helmut Muhlhansel (vocals), Walter Berry (bass-baritone), Helga Schmidt (alto), Julia Varady (soprano), Helen Donath (soprano), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Adolf Dallapozza (tenor), Hermann Winkler (tenor), Klaus-Jurgen Kuper (baritone), Hermann Becht (bass), Elfie Hobarth (soprano)
- Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Bayerisches Staatsorchester
- Wolfgang Sawallisch
- Recorded: 6-14 January 1981
- Recording Venue: Bavaria-Filmstudios, Munich, Germany
Awards and reviews
2010
Complete except for a brief cut in Matteo's part in Act 3, Sawallisch's 1981 Orfeo recording of Arabella has been easily fitted onto two CDs.
Sawallisch is the most experienced conductor of Strauss's operas alive today and at his best in this one, his tempos exactly right, his appreciation of its flavour (sometimes sentimental, at others gently ironic and detached) unequalled. Helen Donath's delightful Zdenka is a perfect foil for Varady's Arabella. Varady's singing of the titlerole is characterful and intelligent. One should be left with ambivalent feelings about this heroine; is she lovable or a chilling opportunist? Or both? And while Fischer-Dieskau's singing of Mandryka has not the total security of his earlier DG recording of the role with Keilberth, he remains the best Mandryka heard since the war.
