Legendäre Aufnahmen unter dem Strauss-Kennern Karl Böhm und Clemens Krauss
Legendäre Premiere in Wien, 60 Jahre nach der Uraufführung, ein Livemitschnit einer Sternstunde der Wiener Richard-Strauss-Kultur. Gundula Janowitz in der Titelpartie, James King als Bacchus und ein erlesenes Komödianten-Ensemble um Heinz Zednik als Tanzmeister und Walter Berry als Musikmeister. Erich Kunz als verschmitzter Haushofmeister und Edita Gruberovas unvergleichliche Zerbinetta - die slowakische Sopranistin schaffte mit dieser Premiere ihren internationalen Durchbruch. Am Pult stand Karl Böhm.
Schon 1944 hatte Böhm das Werk seines Mentors Richard Strauss zur Feier von dessen 80. Geburtstag in Wien einstudiert und im Rahmen einer vielbeachteten Richard-Strauss-Woche herausgebracht. Der Reichsrundfunk hat die Premiere übertragen, weshalb ein Mitschnitt der Vorstellung erhalten geblieben ist, der später von der Deutschen Grammophon veröffentlicht wurde. Ein bedeutendes Tondokument auch das.
Eine 2024 erschienene Doppel-CD des Labels cpo lenkt die Aufmerksamkeit auf eine frühverstorbene Schülerin von tschechischen Musikgrößen vom Format eines Josef Suk oder Vaclav Tálich: Vítězslava Kaprálová. Die junge Frau, die bemerkenswerte Stücke publizierte, starb 25-jährig. Was hätte aus ihr werden können ...
In unserer Sammlung findet sich der große Querschnitt unter Robert Heger von 1933 – mit Interpreten, die Hugo von Hofmannsthalt und Richard Strauss als Idealbesetzungen empfunden haben: Lotte Lehmann als Marschalling und Richard Mayr als Ochs. Außerdem eine von Strauss-Adlatus Clemens Krauss noch zu Lebzeiten des Komponisten einstudierte Aufnahme aus München, 1942, die man gehört haben muß, wenn man wissen möchte, wie wortdeutlich man Hofmannsthals Text artikulieren kann! Ein Dokument von der legendären Wiedereröffnung der Wiener Staatsoper, 1955, unter der Leitung des Publikumslieblings Hans Knappertsbusch und ebenso legendäre Studioproduktionen unter Herbert von Karajan und Karl Böhm…
Einer der bedeutendsten Pianisten des XX. Jahrhunderts, behindert – wie so viele – an einer internationalen Karriere durch das Stalin-Regime in Rußland. Sofronitsky war der Schwiegersohn Alexander Skrjabins und (nicht deshalb) dessen wichtigster Interpret – die Aufnahmen, die von Sofronitskys Skrjabin-Spiel erhalten sind, gehören abgesehen von seiner diesbezüglichen stilistischen Kompetenz und der makellosen pianistischen Technik zu den intensivsten Hörerlebnissen, die ein Musikfreund machen kann – Ausdruck pur, fanatischer Wille zur Durchdringung des oft rätselhaften Klang-Dickichts.
Vor allem: Man sollte seine Liveaufnahmen vorziehen, denn das Motto des Pianisten lautete:
»Mikrophon ein – Seele aus« …
Er haßte es, aufgenommen zu werden.
Obwohl er einige seiner Studioeinspielungen, die er für das russische Melodia-Label machen durfte, mochte – allen voran die bei aller faszinierenden pianistischen Kontrolle wirklich leidenschaftliche Wiedergabe von Skrjabins Spätwerk »Vers la flamme« …
Die Dirigentin »debütiert« auf Deutsche Grammophon
DG 2024
Die Dirigentin zelebriert ihr Debüt bei der Deutschen Grammophon mit einem bemerkenswerten Album: Beide Symphonien von Kurt Weill, kombiniert mit den »Sieben Todsünden« mit Katharina Mehrling als Diseuse in der Doppelrolle von »Anna und Anna«.
Roméo au tombeau des CapuletsBerliner Philharmoniker - Lorin Maazel
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Combats - Tumulte - Intervention du PrinceMunch - Boston Symphony
D'anciennes haines endormiesMunch - Boston Symphony
Premiers transports que nul n'oublie
Bientôt de Roméo la pâle rêverie
Roméo seul.
Tristesse.
Bruits lointains de concert et de bal.
Grande fête chez les Capulet
O-hó! Capulets, bon soir.
Scéne d'amour.
La reine Mab, ou la Fée des songes.
Jetez des fleurs pour la vierge expirée
Roméo au tombeau des Capulets.
Invocation.
Réveil de Juliette.
Quoi! Roméo retour.
Je vais dévoiler le mystère.
Pauvres enfants que je pleure.
Jurez donc par l'auguste symbole.
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