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Strauss, R: Ariadne auf Naxos

The DGG sound is as clear as crystal […] Hildegard Hillebrecht … pours forth powerful, heroic tone […] Jess Thomas is a robust Bacchus […] Reri Grist … is my ideal Zerbinetta, precise of rhythm... — Gramophone Magazine, Hillebrecht More…

Release Date: 16th Mar 2015
Catalogue No: ELQ4821653
Label: Eloquence
Length: 2 hours 1 minute

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Hildegard Hillebrecht (soprano), Friedrich Lenz (tenor), Sigird Schmidt (soprano), Herbert Lackner (bass), Reri Grist (soprano), Sigrid Schmidt (soprano), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Heinz Friedrich (bass), Unni Rugtvedt (alto), Barry McDaniel (baritone), John van Kesteren (tenor), Tatiana Trojanos (soprano), Arleen Auger (soprano), Richard Kogel (bass), Franz Stoss (speaker), Jess Thomas (tenor), Gerhard Unger (tenor)
Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Karl Böhm
Recorded: 1969-09-20
Recording Venue: Residenz, Herkulessaal, Munich

Orchestral Introduction

Track length2:23

"Mein Herr Haushofmeister!"

Track length5:30

"Du allmächtiger Gott!"

Track length7:55

"'Die ungetreue Zerbinetta und ihre vier Liebhaber':"'

Track length14:53

"Ein Augenblick ist wenig"

Track length5:09

"Sein wir wieder gut" - "Musik ist eine heilige Kunst"

Track length3:33

Overture

Track length3:49

"Schläft sie?"

Track length5:27

Wo war ich? Tot?

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"Lieben, Hassen, Hoffen, Zagen"

Track length2:11

"Es gibt ein Reich"

Track length5:18

"Die Dame gibt mit trüben Sinn" - "Wie sie sich schwingen"

Track length5:25

Großmächtige Prinzessin, wer verstünde nicht

Track length10:56

Hübsch gepredigt aber tauben Ohren

Track length8:03

Ein schönes Wunder!

Track length3:49

Circe, Circe, kannst du mich hören?

Track length16:07

Das waren Zauberworte!

Track length11:00

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On 11 June 1944 Karl Böhm conducted Ariadne auf Naxos at the Vienna State Opera. It was, in his own words, ‘despite the dark shadows cast by the war which was already long since lost, a feast for musical Vienna’. The occasion was the 80th birthday of Richard Strauss which would have undoubtedly been celebrated throughout the whole world of music had it not fallen at that sombre time; a few months later the closing of all German and Austrian theatres was one of the many signs of the inexorable approach of destruction and defeat. For Strauss, however, the celebration performance in Vienna signified one of the triumphal high spots of a lifetime rich in successes and fame.

Böhm said of Ariadne that, together with Elektra, it had always been his favourite among Strauss’s stage works, and that with it he attained his first great public and critical success.

He recorded the work twice for Deutsche Grammophon – a ‘live’ recording in 1954, and this much rarer and much sought-after studio recording made in 1969 with a superb cast that included Hildegard Hillebrecht, Reri Grist, Jess Thomas, Tatiana Troyanos and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, which now receives its first international release on CD.

Collectors will be interested to learn that the set includes the notes that accompanied the original LP release, a synopsis and details of all the musicians who participated in the recording (including three members of the Koeckert Quartet).

Artists

Hildegard Hillebrecht (Ariadne), Tatiana Troyanos (Komponist), Reri Grist (Zerbinetta), Jess Thomas (Bacchus), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Musiklehrer), Barry McDaniel (Harlekin), Richard Kogel (Truffaldin), Friedrich Lenz (Brighella), John van Kesteren (Scaramuchio), Arleen Auger (Najade), Unni Rugtvedt (Dryade), Sigrid Schmidt (Echo), Franz Stoss (Haushofmeister), Herbert Lackner (Ein Lakai), Friedrich Lenz (Ein Offizier), Heinz Friedrich (Ein Perückenmacher), Gerhard Unger (Ein Tanzmeister)

Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Karl Böhm

Reviews

Hillebrecht

The DGG sound is as clear as crystal […] Hildegard Hillebrecht … pours forth powerful, heroic tone […] Jess Thomas is a robust Bacchus […] Reri Grist … is my ideal Zerbinetta, precise of rhythm and intonation, witty in phrasing and verbal inflexion, tough in attack yet delectably sensual in vocal quality, the whore of one’s dreams, sweet and permissive and utterly natural, never calculating

Strauss, R: Ariadne auf Naxos

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