Gundula Janowitz in Recital | Orfeo - Orfeo d'Or C731071

Gundula Janowitz in Recital

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Label: Orfeo - Orfeo d'Or

Cat No: C731071

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 29th October 2007

Contents

Works

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Marzelline
» O war' ich schon mit dir vereint

Monteverdi, Claudio

L'incoronazione di Poppea (The Coronation of Poppea)
» Felice cor mio

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Cosi fan tutte, K588
» Ei parte senti! ... Per pieta, ben mio, perdona
Don Giovanni, K527
» Crudele!-Ah no, mio bene!... Non mi dir, bell'idol
Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K492
» E Susanna non vien! ... Dove sono

Smetana, Bedrich

The Bartered Bride (Prodana nevesta)
» Kannst du denn uberhaupt noch fragen?

Strauss, Richard

Ariadne auf Naxos, op.60
» Es gibt ein Reich, wo alles rein ist

Verdi, Giuseppe

Don Carlo
» Io vengo a domendar (Act 2)
Simon Boccanegra
» Come in quest'ora bruna (Act 1)

Wagner, Richard

Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
» Gut'n Abend, Meister

Weber, Carl Maria von

Der Freischutz, J277
» Und ob die Wolke sie verhulle

Artists

Gundula Janowitz (soprano)
Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera

Conductors

Leonard Bernstein
Karl Bohm
Christoph von Dohnanyi
Herbert von Karajan
Josef Krips
Jaroslav Krombholc
Michael Schonwandt
Horst Stein

Works

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Marzelline
» O war' ich schon mit dir vereint

Monteverdi, Claudio

L'incoronazione di Poppea (The Coronation of Poppea)
» Felice cor mio

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Cosi fan tutte, K588
» Ei parte senti! ... Per pieta, ben mio, perdona
Don Giovanni, K527
» Crudele!-Ah no, mio bene!... Non mi dir, bell'idol
Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K492
» E Susanna non vien! ... Dove sono

Smetana, Bedrich

The Bartered Bride (Prodana nevesta)
» Kannst du denn uberhaupt noch fragen?

Strauss, Richard

Ariadne auf Naxos, op.60
» Es gibt ein Reich, wo alles rein ist

Verdi, Giuseppe

Don Carlo
» Io vengo a domendar (Act 2)
Simon Boccanegra
» Come in quest'ora bruna (Act 1)

Wagner, Richard

Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
» Gut'n Abend, Meister

Weber, Carl Maria von

Der Freischutz, J277
» Und ob die Wolke sie verhulle

Artists

Gundula Janowitz (soprano)
Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera

Conductors

Leonard Bernstein
Karl Bohm
Christoph von Dohnanyi
Herbert von Karajan
Josef Krips
Jaroslav Krombholc
Michael Schonwandt
Horst Stein

About

She was admired above all for the clarity of her timbre and her consistently clean intonation. It would be wrong, however to suggest that Gundula Janowitz's needle-sharp accuracy ever impeded her emotional and dramatic involvement in a role. Quite the opposite, in fact: the simplicity and nobility of her singing very much predestined her for the roles with which she was most closely associated: the Countess, Donna Anna and Donna Elvira, Elisabetta in Don Carlo and as Ariadne, the role in which she bade farewell to the operatic stage in 1990, by which date she had sung the part almost 50 times at the Vienna State Opera alone.

She began her career at the house three decades earlier, making her Bayreuth début as a Flowermaiden in Parsifal at more or less the same time. Throughout this period she was encouraged by Herbert von Karajan, under whose guidance she advanced as far as she dared into heavier repertory, appearing as Wagner's Sieglinde and even as the Empress in 'Die Frau ohne Schatten'. In the event, however, these roles, like that of Leonore, which she first sang in 1976, remained the exception to the rule. Instead, she exercised admirable self-restraint, limiting herself to the lyric soprano repertoire, although even here there were surprises including the curious arrangement of Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea that Karajan conducted in Vienna in 1963.

Orfeo is delighted to present excerpts from these and other roles in these two recordings released in partnership with the Vienna State Opera.

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