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Topic: 116) Lustige Witwe 1962
Recorded in London, July 1962
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Recorded in London, July 1962
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Hanna Glawari - Anneliese Rothenberger
Graf Danilo Danilowitsch - Nicolai Gedda
Valencienne - Erika Köth
Camille de Rosillon - Robert Ilosfalvy
Chor der Bayerischen Rundfunks
Chorleitung Eolfgang Schubert
Simfonie-Orchester Grunke
Dirigent Willy Mattes
Recording from 1967.
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Gedda, Watts, Loyd
Conductor Sir Adrian Boult.
Recorded in London, July 1975
Elgar's friend Jaeger (Enigma 's "Nimrod") asserted that The Dream of Gerontius was not a work that could be appreciated after one hearing. Well said, but the loving dedication of Boult's recording (made in 1975, and the conductor's valedictory choral recording) has tremendously persuasive powers. There was a time when this recording competed with versions led by Malcolm Sargent and John Barbirolli; neither of those seem to be in the catalogue at the moment, and among the "old classics," only Benjamin Britten's version still is around. Boult's soloists are jewels. Gerontius is sung operatically (but with subtlety and grace) by Gedda, whose faint accent provides an unexpected touch of exoticism. Perhaps this recording's finest moment is when Gerontius's soul is granted a lightning-flash glimpse of the Almighty; "Take me away," he exclaims, "and in the lowest deep / There let me be." No one I've heard captures that moment's agony and ecstasy as well as Gedda, and certainly not with such tonal beauty. Watts is a formidable angel, but she shows great compassion. As the Priest (and later, the Angel of the Agony), Robert Lloyd's dark bass scores more points, and his two arias also are highlights of this recording. Boult conducts like a convert, inspiring the choirs and the orchestra to spiritual heights. His conducting is not the most dramatic, but it is the most alluring, "sacred" as it is.
The Dream of Gerontius is not an easy work – it's like Strauss's Death and Transfiguration, but with the scale and flavor of Parsifal – but eventually every devotee of choral music needs to come to term with it. Boult's recording is an excellent opportunity.
1999, Raymond Tuttle.
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King Louis VI bass ............................ Siegfried Vogel
Adolar, Count of Nevers and Rethel tenor ...... Nicolai Gedda
Lysiart, Count of For�and Beaujolais bass ... Tom Krause
Euryanthe of Savoy soprano .................... Jessye Norman
Eglantine of Puiset soprano ................... Rita Hunter
Rudolf tenor .................................. Harald Neukirch
Bertha soprano ................................ Renate Krahmer
Leipziger Rundfunkchor
Chorus master: Horst Neumann
Staatskapelle Dresden
Marek Janowski, conductor
Recorded: June & July 1974, Lukaskirche, Dresden
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Recorded in Vienna, February 1966
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Eugen Onegin - Sherrill Milnes
Tatjana - Teresa Zylis-Gara
Lenski - Nicolai Gedda
Olga - Isola Jones
Gremin- Martti Talvela
Larina - Jean Kraft
Filipevna - Batyah Godfrey Ben-David
Trinquet - Andrea Velis
Captain - Richard Best
Zaretski - Andrij Dobrianski
Metropolitan Opera House
Conductor James Levine
In house recording on October 20, 1977
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Recording of the ORF of the concert of the Music Festival Carintischer Sommer Ossiach - Villach (Osoje - Beljak) on July 15, 1990.
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Live performance from MET, October 17, 1972
Amina - Renata Scotto
Elvino - Nicolai Gedda
Il Conte Rodolfo - Bonaldo Giaiotti
Lisa - Colette Boky
Alessio - Giorgio Tozzi
Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra
Conductor Carlo Felice Cillario
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Live performance from La Scala, Milan, May 13, 1974
Carmen - Fiorenza Cossotto
Don José - Nicolai Gedda
Micaela - Adriana Maliponte
Escamillo - José Van Dam
Conductor - Georges Prêtre
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Live performance from Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.
Eva Marton - Matilde
Norman Mittelmann - Guglielmo Tell
Nicolai Gedda - Arnoldo
Agostino Ferrin - Gualtiero Furst
Mario Rinaudo - Melchthal
Maria Casula - Jemmy
Flora Rafanelli - Edwige
Vittorio Terranova - Un pescatore
Orchestra and chorus of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.
Riccardo Muti, conductor.
Florence, May 1972.
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Recorded in Bonn, March1970.
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Violetta - Ileana Cotrubas
Alfredo - Nicolai Gedda
Germont - Cornell MacNeil
Conductor Josef Krips
Live performance from Vienna, December 1971.
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Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Chorus and Orchestra
Conductor Carlo Felice Cillario
28th June 1972
Violetta: Montserrat Caballe
Alfredo Germont: Nicolai Gedda
Giorgio Germont: Victor Braun
Flora: Heather Begg
Dr. Grenvil: Richard van Allen
Annina: Elizabeth Bainbridge
Duphol: George MacPherson
D'Obigny: Eric Garrett
Gastone: John Dobson
Giuseppe: Handel Owen
Messenger: Keith Raggett
Servant: William Clothier
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Recorded in Berlin, September 1966
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Recorded in Copenhage, May 1986
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1 Le piege de Meduse, Comedie lyrique en un Acte
2 Les Pantins Dansent
Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux
Aldo Ciccolini
Tendrement
Nicolai Gedda, tenor
Ludions:
Air du rat – Spleen -
La grenouille americaine -
Air du poete - Chanson du chat
Mady Mesple, soprano
Trois poems d'amour:
Ne su que grain d sable
Suis chauve de naissance
Ta parure est secrete
Gabriel Bacquier, bass
Choses vues a droite et a gauche
Yan-Pascal Tortelier, violin
Quatre petites melodies:
Elegie – Danseuse – Chanson – Adieu
Nicolai Gedda
Prelude de la porte heroique du ciel
Aldo Ciccolini, piano
Recorded in Paris, October 1969
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Performed by Royal Swedish Opera Orchestra
Conducted by Philip Brunelle
Recorded in Stockholm, January 1992
Gustaf Wasa - Anders Aandersson
Christjern II - Nicolai Gedda
Severin Norrby - Tord Wallstroem
Christina Gyllenstierna - Lena Nordin
Cecilia af Eka - Dorrit Kleimert
Margareta Wasa - Eva Pilat
Anna Bielke - Inger Blom
Lars Parre - Staffan Sandlund
Danish Herald - Henrik Westberg
Sweden's Guardian Angel - Marie Dimpker
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Lohengrin - Nicolai Gedda
Elsa von Brabant - Aase Nordmo-Lövberg
Friedrich von Telramund - Rolf Jupither
Ortrud - Barbro Ericson
König Heinrich der Vogler - Bengt Rundgren
Der Heerrufer des Königs - Ingvar Wixell
Pagen - Busk Margit Jonsson, Dorrit Kleinert, Maj-Lie Tollbo, Unni Rugtvedt
Brabantische Edle - John-Erik Jacobsson, Gunnar Lundberg, Lars Carlsson, Bo Lundborg
Kungliga Teaterns Kör und Hovkapellet
Conductor: Silvio Varviso
Recorded live, Stockholm, January 29, 1966
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Colette - Janine Micheau
Colin - Nicolai Gedda
Soothsayer - Michel Roux
Conductor Louis de Froment
Recorded in Paris, April 1956
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