{"product_id":"karajan-r-strauss-der-rosenkavalier-1956-paco167","title":"KARAJAN R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier (1956) - PACO167","description":"overviewfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eR. STRAUSS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e Der Rosenkavalier\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eStudio recording, 1956\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eTotal Duration: 3hr 11:57\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eElisabeth Schwarzkopf\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e - Die Feldmarschallin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eChrista Ludwig\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e - Octavian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eTeresa Stich-Randall\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e - Sophie\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eOtto Edelmann\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e - Der Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eEberhard Wächter \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e- Herr von Faninal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003ePhilharmonia Orchestra and Chorus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003econducted by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eHerbert von Karajan\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples\/PACO167.mp3578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fProducer's Note578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\nRichard Strauss undoubtedly had a life-long love affair with the female\nvoice. All his best operatic roles are written for women and nowhere is\nthis more apparent than in \u003cem\u003eDer Rosenkavalier. \u003c\/em\u003eThe opera features\nexcellent parts for no less than three different types of female voice:\nlight soprano (Sophie), mezzo-soprano (Octavian) and mature lyric soprano\n(Marschallin). When EMI producer Walter Legge decided to record \u003cem\u003eDer Rosenkavalier\u003c\/em\u003e the easiest choice he had to make was casting\nhis wife, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, as the Marschallin. Schwarzkopf sang\nSophie at Covent Garden and elsewhere in the late 1940s, but it was the\nMarschallin that would become her signature role. The role requires a\nmature singer able to convey the huge emotional range of the part using\nboth the music and the words. Schwarzkopf was a renowned lieder singer and\nputs this experience to full use. Her voice has just the right combination\nof weight and lyricism to convey all of the emotion felt by the character\nas she accepts the loss of her youth.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nA young Christa Ludwig sings Octavian with verve. Ludwig would go on to be\nlauded as one of the greatest mezzos of her time, singing far more than the\nusual range of roles. In addition to the ones you would expect (Carmen,\nFricka, Waltraute, Ortrud, Brangäne, Cherubino), she mastered some parts\nmore normally associated with dramatic sopranos including Fidelio, Kundry\nand the Dyer’s Wife. Teresa Stich-Randall sings the youthful Sophie,\nbringing a lovely vocal purity to the role. The American soprano burst onto\nthe musical scene as Nanetta in Toscanini’s broadcast of Falstaff in 1950\nbut bulk of her future career would be in Europe. Stich-Randall made few\nstudio recordings and only this \u003cem\u003eRosenkavalier\u003c\/em\u003e has remained\nconsistently in the catalogue. Austrian bass Otto Edelmann sings Ochs and\nis careful not to overact the part. It is easy to go too far in the\ncharacterisation of Ochs but Edelman offers us a slightly more restrained\nperformance that works very well. Edelmann sang Hans Sachs at the\nre-opening of the Bayreuth festival in 1951, repeating the role at the\nMetropolitan Opera where he also sang Wotan, Gurnemanz and Ochs to great\nacclaim.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nFounded by Walter Legge in 1945 the Philharmonia was regarded as the finest\nof all the London Orchestras in the 1950s. Having worked with the orchestra\non several previous occasions (this recording was one of several operas\nthat Karajan made with EMI in the mid-1950s with Schwarzkopf and the\nPhilharmonia) Karajan arrived at very first recording session and proceeded\nto record the opening of the opera without any rehearsal, capturing the\nfreshness of a live performance in a studio environment. This recording of \u003cem\u003eDer Rosenkavalier \u003c\/em\u003eremains one of the best ever committed to disc.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eTechnical Note on Mono vs Stereo\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1956 most record companies were starting to think about stereo. Some felt it would be the “next big thing” to drive sales in the future, others were less sure. EMI’s great British rivals Decca often seemed to be ahead of the game, whereas EMI by comparison appeared a more cautious, conservative outfit. Decca had had a two year head start in the UK with vinyl and long playing records over EMI, and by 1954 were making their first experimental stereo recordings, even though stereo replay was not yet a domestic possibility. And so, despite the scepticism of EMI’s Walter Legge, the larger company began to follow suit. Nobody wanted to be caught without back catalogue ready to issue if stereo ever arrived and then took off commercially.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe early approach to making recordings in stereo would now be thought of as highly unusual. For a number of years, into the early 1960s, two separate teams would work on a recording, one for mono and one for stereo. At first the top engineers made the mono recordings, leaving the stereo production to the “b team”. They used different microphones in different positions and ended up with a different balance. As time went on the top guys started doing more and more stereo work until the practise started to be abandoned around 1961. Thereafter mono releases were derived by mixing the two stereo channels into one.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the case of \u003ci\u003eDer Rosenkavalier \u003c\/i\u003ethe official release version, made by the main production team, was mono. Nobody could know whether the stereo version would ever be released, and even if it was, whether anyone would buy it. The balance was significantly different between singers and orchestra – it was as if the stereo version was almost an afterthought – and yet this stereo release is the one most of us are now familiar with. (A similar thing happened in 1967 with The Beatles' \u003ci\u003eSgt. Pepper\u003c\/i\u003e album - purists prefer the mono version, which the band mixed over three weeks, over the quick stereo mix produced in three days after they'd gone home, just in case stereo took off in pop music.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the mid-nineties Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf was enlisted as “re-engineering producer” for a CD reissue, now long out of print, of \u003ci\u003eDer Rosenkavalier\u003c\/i\u003e. She chose to work with the mono release. For her, and others, this was how it should sound. It's that carefully-crafted mono recording we’ve chosen to work with for Pristine. XR remastering has worked wonders to open out the sound here – without changing the fundamental character of the recording, it makes the original sound somewhat boxy and antique by comparison. I like to think Dame Elisabeth would have approved.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew Rose\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_download_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample3_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample4_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample5_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample6_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fFull Track Listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5ftrack_listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 24px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eR. STRAUSS\u003c\/b\u003e Der Rosenkavalier\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDisc One\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eACT ONE\u003cbr\u003e1. Introduction  (3:37)\u003cbr\u003e2. Wie du warst! Wie du bist!  (2:58)\u003cbr\u003e3. Du bist mein Bub', du bist mein Schatz!  (5:39)\u003cbr\u003e4. Der Feldmarschall sitzt im krowatischen Wald  (4:10)\u003cbr\u003e5. Quinquin, es ist ein Besuch  (1:49)\u003cbr\u003e6. Selbstverständlich empfängt mich Ihro Gnaden  (8:18)\u003cbr\u003e7. Hat Sie schon einmal  (0:56)\u003cbr\u003e8. Macht das einem lahmen Esel aus mir?  (2:56)\u003cbr\u003e9. Geben mir Euer Gnaden den Grasalf' da  (1:45)\u003cbr\u003e10. Wollen Euer Gnaden leicht den Jungen Herren da  (1:22)\u003cbr\u003e11. I komm' glei  (2:58)\u003cbr\u003e12. Di rigori armato il seno  (2:10)\u003cbr\u003e13. Als Morgengabe  (3:02)\u003cbr\u003e14. Mein leiber Hippolyte  (3:39)\u003cbr\u003e15. Da geht er hin, der aufgeblasene schlechte Kerl  (5:19)\u003cbr\u003e16. Ach, du bist wider da!  (5:34)\u003cbr\u003e17. Die Zeit, die ist ein sonderbar Ding  (2:26)\u003cbr\u003e18. Mein schöner Schatz  (4:20)\u003cbr\u003e19. Ich werd' jetzt in die Kirchen  (7:22)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDisc Two\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eACT TWO\u003cbr\u003e1. Introduction  (0:38)\u003cbr\u003e2. Ein ernster Tag, ein grosser Tag  (1:09)\u003cbr\u003e3. In dieser feierlichen Stunde der Prüfung  (3:18)\u003cbr\u003e4. Mir ist die Ehre widerfahren  (7:49)\u003cbr\u003e5. Ich Kenn' Ich schon recht wohl  (4:01)\u003cbr\u003e6. Jetzt aber kommt mein Herr Zukünftiger  (3:00)\u003cbr\u003e7. Brav, Faninal, er weiss, was sich gehört  (4:30)\u003cbr\u003e8. Wird kommen über Nacht  (2:09)\u003cbr\u003e9. Hab nichts dawider  (3:47)\u003cbr\u003e10. Was Sie ist ... Mit Ihren Augen voll Tränen  (3:41)\u003cbr\u003e11. Herr Baron von Lerchenau!  (7:45)\u003cbr\u003e12. Er muss mich pardonieren  (6:32)\u003cbr\u003e13. Da lieg' ich!  (6:40)\u003cbr\u003e14. Da ... Herr Cavalier!  (4:52)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDisc Three\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eACT THREE\u003cbr\u003e1. Einleitung und Pantomime  (6:49)\u003cbr\u003e2. Hab'n Euer Gnadenn noch weitre Befehle?  (2:33)\u003cbr\u003e3. Nein, nein, nein, nein! I trink' kein Wein  (1:33)\u003cbr\u003e4. Ach, lass Sie schon einmal das fade Wort!  (3:19)\u003cbr\u003e5. Die schöne Musi!  (2:46)\u003cbr\u003e6. Wie wie Stund' hingeht  (4:53)\u003cbr\u003e7. Oh weh, was maken wir?... Halt! Keiner rührt sich!  (5:39)\u003cbr\u003e8. Sind desto eher im Klaren  (1:42)\u003cbr\u003e9. Muss jetzt partout zu ihr!... Ihre hochfürstliche Gnaden  (10:03)\u003cbr\u003e10. Ist halt vorbei  (2:39)\u003cbr\u003e11. Mein Gott, es war nicht mehr als eine Farce  (2:19)\u003cbr\u003e12. Heut' oder morgen oder den übernächsten Tag  (4:35)\u003cbr\u003e13. Marie Theres'!... Hab' mir's gelobt  (6:13)\u003cbr\u003e14. Ist ein Traum, kann nicht wirklich sein  (3:46)\u003cbr\u003e15. Ist ein Traum... 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