Peter Edelmann, Morbisch Festival Orchestra, Rudolf Bibl - Strauss Ii: Zigeunerbaron (Der) (Excerpts) (2000)
BAND/ARTIST: Peter Edelmann, Morbisch Festival Orchestra, Rudolf Bibl
- Title: Strauss Ii: Zigeunerbaron (Der) (Excerpts)
- Year Of Release: 2000
- Label: Oehms Classics
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: flac lossless (tracks)
- Total Time: 01:18:16
- Total Size: 354 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. Overture
02. Introduction. Das war' kein rechter Schiffersknecht
03. Entrance: Als flotter Geist, doch fruh verwaist
04. Melodrama and Ensemble: So tauschte mich die Ahnung nicht
05. Aria. Bald wird man Dich viel umwerben
06. Entrance: Hier bin ich
07. Ensemble and Aria. Dem Freier naht die Braut
08. Ensemble and Duet. Welch famose Erscheinung
09. Gypsy Song. So elend und treu ist keiner
10. Finale. Quintet: Arsena - Arsena!
11. Gypsy Chorus. O habet acht
12. Wie wechselvoll beteilt das Schicksal mich
13. Komm her und schau dir die Leute an
14. Wojwode, der Ziguener
15. Introduction. Trio. Mein Aug bewacht
16. Trio. Ein Greis ist mir im Traum erschienen
17. Treasure Waltz. Ha, seht es winkt, es blinkt
18. Gypsy Chorus. Auf, auf, auf
19. Duet. Wer uns getraut?
20. Couplet: Nur keusch und rein soll Gross und Klein
21. Entrance: Her die Hand, es muss ja sein
22. Finale. Waltz. Noch eben in Gloria
23. O welch ein Gluck
24. Hier die Hand, es muss ja sein
25. March: Von des Tajos Strand
26. March: Hurrah - Die Schlacht
27. Finale. Reich' ihm die Hand
This production of Johann Strauss II's Der Zigeunerbaron (The Gypsy Baron) is a part of a series of recorded operettas presented by Seefestspiele Mörbisch, or, in English, The Mörbisch Lake Festival, on the Oehms Classics label. It's unusual for the quality of an opera recording to be divided along lines of gender, but if there is any legitimate existence of such a phenomenon on disc, it is found here. The men in the cast make the most of their characterizations of the gypsies, singing in as guttural a German as they can muster and pulling out all the stops on silliness; these parts of the opera make for delightful listening. But the women are not up to the same standard and seem a bit under the music most of the time. Martina Serafin as Saffi certainly does not sound like her usual self here, and in the "Zigeunerlied" she is weak sounding, a shame as elsewhere on disc Serafin can be heard to good advantage. In order to get Der Zigeunerbaron onto a single disc there is quite a bit of trimming of the score as recorded; Nikolaus Harnoncourt's complete 1994 recording for Teldec runs nearly twice as long, although that is admittedly extreme -- about 95 minutes seems the norm, and this runs only 78. Throughout Der Zigeunerbaron, the Festival Orchestra Mörbisch, under Rudolph Bibl, maintain a nice rhythmic energy and good sense of color. The recorded sound is clear, direct, and immediate. The booklet contains no more than a summary of the plot in English.
While there is no shortage of recordings of Der Zigeunerbaron, not very many of them are in digital sound, and if one is looking for no more than a single-disc representation of the score, then this Oehms Classics release is probably the only digital one in this format. But on the basis of the performance alone, it's recommended that you save your money for either Harnoncourt, Heinrich Hollreiser on EMI, or if you can stand mono sound, the truly great Otto Ackermann recording made in 1954 with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf in the critical role of Saffi.
01. Overture
02. Introduction. Das war' kein rechter Schiffersknecht
03. Entrance: Als flotter Geist, doch fruh verwaist
04. Melodrama and Ensemble: So tauschte mich die Ahnung nicht
05. Aria. Bald wird man Dich viel umwerben
06. Entrance: Hier bin ich
07. Ensemble and Aria. Dem Freier naht die Braut
08. Ensemble and Duet. Welch famose Erscheinung
09. Gypsy Song. So elend und treu ist keiner
10. Finale. Quintet: Arsena - Arsena!
11. Gypsy Chorus. O habet acht
12. Wie wechselvoll beteilt das Schicksal mich
13. Komm her und schau dir die Leute an
14. Wojwode, der Ziguener
15. Introduction. Trio. Mein Aug bewacht
16. Trio. Ein Greis ist mir im Traum erschienen
17. Treasure Waltz. Ha, seht es winkt, es blinkt
18. Gypsy Chorus. Auf, auf, auf
19. Duet. Wer uns getraut?
20. Couplet: Nur keusch und rein soll Gross und Klein
21. Entrance: Her die Hand, es muss ja sein
22. Finale. Waltz. Noch eben in Gloria
23. O welch ein Gluck
24. Hier die Hand, es muss ja sein
25. March: Von des Tajos Strand
26. March: Hurrah - Die Schlacht
27. Finale. Reich' ihm die Hand
This production of Johann Strauss II's Der Zigeunerbaron (The Gypsy Baron) is a part of a series of recorded operettas presented by Seefestspiele Mörbisch, or, in English, The Mörbisch Lake Festival, on the Oehms Classics label. It's unusual for the quality of an opera recording to be divided along lines of gender, but if there is any legitimate existence of such a phenomenon on disc, it is found here. The men in the cast make the most of their characterizations of the gypsies, singing in as guttural a German as they can muster and pulling out all the stops on silliness; these parts of the opera make for delightful listening. But the women are not up to the same standard and seem a bit under the music most of the time. Martina Serafin as Saffi certainly does not sound like her usual self here, and in the "Zigeunerlied" she is weak sounding, a shame as elsewhere on disc Serafin can be heard to good advantage. In order to get Der Zigeunerbaron onto a single disc there is quite a bit of trimming of the score as recorded; Nikolaus Harnoncourt's complete 1994 recording for Teldec runs nearly twice as long, although that is admittedly extreme -- about 95 minutes seems the norm, and this runs only 78. Throughout Der Zigeunerbaron, the Festival Orchestra Mörbisch, under Rudolph Bibl, maintain a nice rhythmic energy and good sense of color. The recorded sound is clear, direct, and immediate. The booklet contains no more than a summary of the plot in English.
While there is no shortage of recordings of Der Zigeunerbaron, not very many of them are in digital sound, and if one is looking for no more than a single-disc representation of the score, then this Oehms Classics release is probably the only digital one in this format. But on the basis of the performance alone, it's recommended that you save your money for either Harnoncourt, Heinrich Hollreiser on EMI, or if you can stand mono sound, the truly great Otto Ackermann recording made in 1954 with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf in the critical role of Saffi.
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