Semperoper Edition
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Semperoper Edition Volume 7: Fidelio Revelations in Song
Elfriede Trötschel (soprano), Hans Lowlein (piano), Hubert Giesen (piano), Richard Krauss (piano), Walter Felsenstein (narrator), Michael Raucheisen (piano)
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Strauss: Daphne
Semperoper Edition Vol. 4
Helena Rott, Gottlob Frick, Gudrun Wuestemann, Werner Liebing
Staatskapelle Dresden, Rudolf Kempe
Kempe conducts the score without cuts, and he brings to it a wonderful sense of pacing, striking an effective balance between drama and Apollonian serenity…The sound captured by the radio engineers... —
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Special offer. Semperoper Edition Volume 2: Beethoven Fidelio
Christel Goltz (Leonore), Bernd Aldenhoff (Florestan), Joseph Herrmann (Don Pizarro), Gottlob Frick (Rocco), Elfride Trötschel (Marzelline), Erich Zimmermann (Jaquino), Heinrich Pflanzl (Don Fernando), Horst Weber (First Prisoner), Werner Faulhaber (Second Prisoner)
Staatskapelle Dresden, Joseph...
Vocally, the principal singers tend to be Wagnerites, which means that Goltz's Leonore, for all her dramatic commitment, isn't as tidy as we're now used to, while Bernd Aldenhoff's tentorian... —
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Special offer. Semperoper Edition Volume 8: Weinberger Schwanda the Bagpiper
Christoph Pohl (Sˇvanda), Marjorie Owens (Dorotka), Ladislav Elgr (Babinsk´y), Tichina Vaughn (Queen), Tilmann Ronnebeck (Magician), Michael Ede (The Devil), Simeon Esper (First mercenary / Judge / Captain of the Devil's Guard)
Chorus of the Sachsische Staatsoper of Dresden, Staatskapelle Dresden,...
A high quality performance of a fine work now less known than it once was. —
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Special offer. Semperoper Edition Volume 11: Hasse Attilio Regolo
Axel Köhler (Regolo), Markus Schäfer (Manlio), Martina Borst (Attilia), Sibylla Rubens (Publio), Carmen Fuggiss (Barce), Michael Volle (Licinio), Randall Wong (Amilcare)
Cappella Sagittariana, Dresden, Frieder Bernius
Documenting a period-instrument performance from Dresden, this live recording conducted by Frieder Bernius presents a good account of a worthwhile and otherwise unrecorded piece. —
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Special offer. Semperoper Edition Volume 3: Wagner again? (1948-1956)
The earliest post-war Dresden Wagner recordings
Dora Zschille (soprano), Brunnhild Friedland (soprano), Helmut Eyle (bass), Kurt Rehm (baritone), Hans Kramer (bass), Ernst Gruber (tenor), Bernd Aldenhoff (tenor), Margarete Baumer (soprano), Karl Paul (baritone), Hans Hopf (tenor), Emilie Walter-Sachs (soprano), Josef Herrmann (baritone), Christel...
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Semperoper Edition Volume 1: Gott! Welch dunkel hier!
The Earliest Postwar Dresden Recordings
Bernd Aldenhoff, Kurt Böhme, Werner Faulhaber, Gottlob Frick, Christel Goltz, Hans Hopf, Inger Karén, Lisa Otto, Karl Paul, Heinz Sauerbaum, Arno Schellenberg, Elfride Trötschel, Elfriede Weidlich, Werner Liebling, Helena Rott, Ruth Lange, Dora Zschille
Joseph Keilberth, Gerhart Wiesenhütter,...
...there are fine things on offer and because by 1945 German radio was using magnetic tape, the sound quality is often surprisingly good. —
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Special offer. Semperoper Edition Volume 5: Weber Der Freischütz (1951)
Bernd Aldenhoff (Max), Elfriede Trotschel (Agathe), Irma Beilke (Ännchen), Hannes Haegele (Zamiel), Hans Kramer (Hermit), Werner Faulhaber (Kuno), Karl-Heinz Thomann (Kilian), Karl Paul (Ottokar)
Dresden State Opera Chorus, Dresden Staatskapelle, Rudolf Kempe
The performance has class and interest but is no hi-fi wonder in embryo...Kempe, not so long out of playing the opera in the pit as principal oboist, predictably balances Weber's scoring to... —
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Semperoper Edition Volume 6: Wagner
Ferdinand Frantz (Hans Sachs), Kurt Böhme (Veit Pogner), Johannes Kemter (Kunz Vogelgesang), Kurt Legner (Konrad Nachtigall), Heinrich Pflanzl (Sixtus Beckmesser), Karl Paul (Fritz Kothner), Karl-Heinz Thomann (Balthasar Zorn), Heinrich Tessmer (Ulrich Eisslinger), Gerhard Stolze (Augustin Moser),...
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Special offer. Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier
Recorded 1951
Margarete Baumer (Marschallin), Tiana Lemnitz (Octavian), Ursula Richter (Sophie), Kurt Böhme (Ochs), Hans Löbel (Faninal), Franz Sautter (Valzacchi), Emilie Walter-Sacks (Annina), Werner Liebing (Ein Sänger), Angela Kolniak (Marianne Leitmetzerin), Erich Handel (Ein Notar)
Staatskapelle Dresden,...
the recording teems with lovely little details from a fine extended cast of seasoned pros.. A Rosenkavalier that, though certainly rough around the edges in terms of vocalism, gets the drama... —
