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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | My Heart AloneFavorite Operetta Arias and Duets
Angelika Kirchschlager & Simon Keenlyside Austrian Tonkünstler Orchestra, Alfred Eschwé My Heart Alone is the new recording from Austrian mezzo-soprano Angelika Kirchschlager and British baritone Simon Keenlyside, and proves that Operetta is still alive. Both singers are highly respected in the fields of opera and Lieder recital, and have appeared several times as a partnership, notably in the title roles in Pelléas et Mélisande at the Salzburg Easter Festival and at Covent Garden, where they have been feted as the dream couple of the opera world.
This is the duo’s first Operetta recording, following in the great tradition of famous opera singers like Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Fritz Wunderlich and Hermann Prey, whose careers blossomed beyond the opera stage. The choice of repertoire for this programme ranges widely from the golden age to the silver age, and includes gems from Die Fledermaus and Die Tänzerin Fanny Elssler by the father of Viennese operetta and waltz king Johann Strauss, as well as titles from popular works such as Franz von Suppé's masterwork Boccaccio and Franz Léhar's Merry Widow. The duet Nur die Liebe macht uns jung from Franz Léhar's Zigeunerliebe however, is an absolute rarity. “Keenlyside sings operetta like a student, learning the ropes, too quick to pitch volume and intensity at a level fit for Verdi, but not the sweetmeats of Vienna...Best to concentrate on Kirchschlager, who is frequently marvellous. As an Austrian, the operetta lilt lives in Kirchschlager’s blood; she’s a natural at pausing and easing the speeds, and she sings with that indefinable glow.” The Times, 4th July 2008 *** | 
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| |  | Carlos Kleiber - Rehearsal and Performance
Carlos Kleiber, conducting genius or madman? This highly intelligent, well-read, sensitive and charming, disarmingly
humorous, sometimes cynical and irascible man was often dismissed as an eccentric and his notorious
refusals, his curiously short recording career, his complete rejection of publicity were regarded not so much as the
expression of a deep-felt artistic sensitivity as the arbitrary behaviour of a talented but fl amboyant personality …
When Carlos Kleiber made these recordings of rehearsals and concert performance of the overtures to Die Fledermaus
and Der Freischütz for SDR in the spring of 1970 with the Südfunk Symphony Orchestra in Stuttgart’s Villa Berg, he
was already more in demand as a conductor than most of his contemporaries.
This DVD offers a rare glimpse of Kleiber’s often highly original attempts to verbally communicate his ideas to his
musicians. Here was a man who preferred to avoid the limelight: even at the height of his fame in the mid 1970s,
when he was being celebrated as a star conductor, the fi rst signs of a slow withdrawal were already discernible. |
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| |  | A film by Vaclav Kaslik
Anton De Ridder, Sylvia Geszty, Jon Piso, Julia Migenes, Cesare Curzi, Erich Kunz, Trudeliese Schmidt, Karl Dönch & Ljuba Welitsch Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks & Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Kurt Eichhorn This beloved operetta, which takes place during Carnival celebrations in 18th-century in Venice, shows Strauss’s descriptive writing at its best, helped by his love of Italy. Eine Nacht in Venedig inspired Strauss to compose some of his most successful operetta-music. The Italian atmosphere, the sun, the sea and the Venetian way of life appealed to his creative imagination
The stellar cast includes such eminent singer as Anton de Ridder, Sylvia Geszty, Julia Migenes and Trudeliese Schmiedt; Kurt Eichhorn conducts the Münchner Rundfunkorchester
This film-production from 1973 was made by the well known Czech conductor and stage director Vaclav Kaslik
Among other songs in this operetta, two in particular immediately come to the music-lover´s mind: the infatuating yearning “Komm in die Gondel mein Liebchen” and the captivating waltz “Ach wie so herrlich zu schauen sind all die reizenden Frauen” |
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| |  | Directed by Hermann Lanske
Ingeborg Hallstein, René Kollo, Dagmar Koller, Benno Kusche, Helga Papouschek, Ferry Gruber, Fritz Muliar & Hilde Sochor Symphonie-Orchester Kurt Graunke, Anton Paulik From the Wien-Film Atelier and Bavaria Studios, 1971 |
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| |  | Elisabeth Schwarzkopf - Operetta Arias & Duets
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano) Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Ackermann & Herbert Von Karajan “The whole collection heightens admiration for the delights of the music and the quality of Schwarzkopf's soprano.” Gramophone Magazine, July 2008 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Gundula Janowitz, Eberhard Wächter, Wolfgang Windgassen, Heinz Holecek & Erich Kunz Wiener Philharmoniker, Karl Böhm Staged and Directed by: Otto Schenk "Optimally captured on film” (Die Presse, Vienna) | | | DG Unitel - 0734371 (DVD Video) Normally: £19.99 (£17.01 ex. VAT) Special: £16.99 (£14.46 ex. VAT) |
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| |  | Opera Without Words
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Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Nicolai Gedda, Erich Kunz, Karl Dönch, Peter Klein, Emmy Loose & Hanna Ludwig Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus, Otto Ackermann Recorded 25th – 28th and 31st May and 25th September, 1954 in Kingsway Hall, London When this recording appeared in 1955, the Gramophone critic wrote: “A Night in Venice (1883), with the canals running with schmaltz and many a German joke about macaroni and La donna being mobile,may put off the ultra austere, but I think you would have to be pretty stiff not to surrender… This set speaks for itself. Outside the world of the gramophone you would never expect to encounter an operetta with a cast like this one”. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan Recorded: Sofiensaal, Vienna, June 1960 “The sound is sparklingly clear,...The performance of the opera itself has all the sparkle one could ask for...and the Decca recording is scintillating in its clarity.” The Penguin Guide to Opera on Compact Disc | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | New Year's Concert 2007Once again, the program is a tasteful mixture of well-known classics and New Year´s Concert premieres, which include Joseph Strauss´s 'Irenen'-Polka and the valse 'Flattergeister' as well as Johann Strauss' 'Einzugs-Galopp'
Hellmesberger: | Elfenreigen Leichtfüssig | Strauss, J, I: | Einzugs-Galopp, Op. 35 Erinnerungen an Ernst Furioso-Galopp Radetsky March, Op. 228 | Strauss, J, II: | Zivio! - Marsch, Op. 456 Waldmeister: overture Wo die Zitronen blühen, Op. 364 An der schönen, blauen Donau, Op. 314 | Strauss, Josef: | Flattergeister Moulinet-Polka Delirien Waltz, Op. 212 Irenen-Polka Matrosen-Polka Dynamiden - Waltz Op. 173 |
Wiener Philharmoniker, Zubin Mehta | | | DG - 0734188 (DVD Video) Normally: £15.99 (£13.61 ex. VAT) Special: £13.59 (£11.57 ex. VAT) |
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