J Strauss II - Die Fledermaus
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Label: Australian Eloquence
Cat No: ELQ4827379
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 3rd November 2017
Contents
Artists
Julius PatzakHilde Gueden
Alfred Poell
Wilma Lipp
Sieglinde Wagner
Kurt Preger
Anton Dermota
August Jaresch
Wiener Staatsopernchor
Wiener Philharmoniker
Conductor
Clemens KraussWorks
Die FledermausArtists
Julius PatzakHilde Gueden
Alfred Poell
Wilma Lipp
Sieglinde Wagner
Kurt Preger
Anton Dermota
August Jaresch
Wiener Staatsopernchor
Wiener Philharmoniker
Conductor
Clemens KraussAbout
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, Kurt Preger, all local singers, in command of Vienna’s particular dialects of speech and song.
‘This 1950 Fledermaus has consistently rated at the top of all performances. Clemens Krauss is simply the finest-ever conductor of the Viennese waltz genre. There is a joie de vivre here, despite the grimness of life in occupied Vienna in 1950, that hasn’t been equalled elsewhere. Also, the soloists are among the finest Vienna has produced and are all first-class.’ - Fanfare magazine, Nov/Dec 1992
Cast:
- 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
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