Clemens Krauss - Strauss: Die Fledermaus (2017)
BAND/ARTIST: Clemens Krauss
- Title: Strauss: Die Fledermaus
- Year Of Release: 2017
- Label: Decca / Eloquence
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: FLAC (Tracks)
- Total Time: 01:33:10
- Total Size: 335 mb (+3%rec.)
- WebSite: Album Preview
Still considered by many to be the finest recording ever made of the jewel in Viennese operetta: ‘Die Fledermaus’ was one of a trio of Strauss-family recordings made by Clemens Krauss for Decca in the early 1950s. Like ‘Der Zigeunerbaron’ (482 7371) and his New Year Concerts (482 7364), it is now reissued by Eloquence, in a new remastering and with fresh editorial retrospectives on the special chemistry between composer, conductor and orchestra.
At the time of its premiere in 1885, ‘Die Fledermaus’ attracted censure – and was given a run of only sixteen performances – for singing the praises of champagne while many of the inhabitants of Vienna were starving or on the breadline. Today, however, the piece delights audiences worldwide, above all when it is celebrated in a performance by its native interpreters, the Vienna Philharmonic with Clemens Krauss conducting. Krauss was able to claim that he had been gently rocked and swayed to the sound of this orchestra even before he was born; his mother was a dancer with the Vienna court ballet, not yet seventeen years old at the time of his birth in Vienna in 1893. Before he was 30 he had conducted ‘Der Rosenkavalier’ at the State Opera; Strauss himself was co-director of the house at the time, and came on stage to tell Krauss, ‘Consider yourself engaged forthwith.’
When Decca made this recording in September 1950, the city and its inhabitants were still recovering from wartime privations just as Strauss’s first audience had been. Krauss himself had worked with the Philharmonic throughout the war, and he cast this ‘Fledermaus’ from among his circle of friends in Vienna: Wilma Lipp, Julius Patzak, Alfred Poell and Kurt Preger, all local singers, in command of Vienna’s particular dialects of speech and song.
Tracks:
1 Overture
2 Act I: Täubchen, Das Entflattert Ist
3 Act I: Nein, Mit Solchen Advokaten
4 Act I: Komm Mit Mir Zum Souper
5 Act I: So Muss Allein Ich Bleiben
6 Act I: Trinke, Liebchen, Trinke Schnell
7 Act I: Mein Herr, Was Dachten Sie Von Mir
8 Act II: Ein Souper Heut' Uns Winkt
9 Act II: Ich lade Gern Mir Gäste Ein
10 Act II: Ach, Meine Herr'n Und Damen
11 Act II: Dieser Anstand So Manierlich
12 Act II: Klänge Der Heimat
13 Act II: Im Feuerstrom Der Reben
14 Act II: Brüderlein Und Schwesterlein
15 Act II: Genug, Damit, Genug
16 Act III: Entr'acte...Melodram
17 Act III: Spiel' Ich Die Unschuld Vom Lande"
18 Act III: Ich Stehe Voll Zagen
19 Act III: O Fledermaus, O Fledermaus
Personnel:
Gabriel von Eisenstein: Julius Patzak
Rosalinde: Hilde Gueden
Dr. Falke: Alfred Poell
Adele: Wilma Lipp
Prinz Orlofsky: Sieglinde Wagner
Frank: Kurt Preger
Alfred: Anton Dermota
Dr. Blind: August Jaresch
Wiener Staatsopernchor
Wiener Philharmoniker
Clemens Krauss
At the time of its premiere in 1885, ‘Die Fledermaus’ attracted censure – and was given a run of only sixteen performances – for singing the praises of champagne while many of the inhabitants of Vienna were starving or on the breadline. Today, however, the piece delights audiences worldwide, above all when it is celebrated in a performance by its native interpreters, the Vienna Philharmonic with Clemens Krauss conducting. Krauss was able to claim that he had been gently rocked and swayed to the sound of this orchestra even before he was born; his mother was a dancer with the Vienna court ballet, not yet seventeen years old at the time of his birth in Vienna in 1893. Before he was 30 he had conducted ‘Der Rosenkavalier’ at the State Opera; Strauss himself was co-director of the house at the time, and came on stage to tell Krauss, ‘Consider yourself engaged forthwith.’
When Decca made this recording in September 1950, the city and its inhabitants were still recovering from wartime privations just as Strauss’s first audience had been. Krauss himself had worked with the Philharmonic throughout the war, and he cast this ‘Fledermaus’ from among his circle of friends in Vienna: Wilma Lipp, Julius Patzak, Alfred Poell and Kurt Preger, all local singers, in command of Vienna’s particular dialects of speech and song.
Tracks:
1 Overture
2 Act I: Täubchen, Das Entflattert Ist
3 Act I: Nein, Mit Solchen Advokaten
4 Act I: Komm Mit Mir Zum Souper
5 Act I: So Muss Allein Ich Bleiben
6 Act I: Trinke, Liebchen, Trinke Schnell
7 Act I: Mein Herr, Was Dachten Sie Von Mir
8 Act II: Ein Souper Heut' Uns Winkt
9 Act II: Ich lade Gern Mir Gäste Ein
10 Act II: Ach, Meine Herr'n Und Damen
11 Act II: Dieser Anstand So Manierlich
12 Act II: Klänge Der Heimat
13 Act II: Im Feuerstrom Der Reben
14 Act II: Brüderlein Und Schwesterlein
15 Act II: Genug, Damit, Genug
16 Act III: Entr'acte...Melodram
17 Act III: Spiel' Ich Die Unschuld Vom Lande"
18 Act III: Ich Stehe Voll Zagen
19 Act III: O Fledermaus, O Fledermaus
Personnel:
Gabriel von Eisenstein: Julius Patzak
Rosalinde: Hilde Gueden
Dr. Falke: Alfred Poell
Adele: Wilma Lipp
Prinz Orlofsky: Sieglinde Wagner
Frank: Kurt Preger
Alfred: Anton Dermota
Dr. Blind: August Jaresch
Wiener Staatsopernchor
Wiener Philharmoniker
Clemens Krauss
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