Weber - Euryanthe | Nimbus - Prima Voce NI7969

Weber - Euryanthe

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Label: Nimbus - Prima Voce

Cat No: NI7969

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 5th July 2019

Contents

Artists

Kurt Bohme (bass)
Frans Vroons (tenor)
Joan Sutherland (soprano)
Lloyd Strauss-Smith (tenor)
Otakar Kraus (bass-baritone)
Marianne Schech (soprano)
Beryl Hatt (soprano)
BBC Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Fritz Stiedry

Works

Weber, Carl Maria von

Euryanthe, J291

Artists

Kurt Bohme (bass)
Frans Vroons (tenor)
Joan Sutherland (soprano)
Lloyd Strauss-Smith (tenor)
Otakar Kraus (bass-baritone)
Marianne Schech (soprano)
Beryl Hatt (soprano)
BBC Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Fritz Stiedry

About

‘Despite the (mainly traditional) cuts, this 1955 BBC broadcast is treasurable. Not only does it feature Joan Sutherland’s touchingly pure and limpid Euryanthe – a role she only sang this once – but it also extends the small discography of Frans Vroons, in a lyric-heroic role which could have been written for him. Marianne Schech and Otakar Kraus are matchless villains, Kurt Böhme a comfortable King. Yet perhaps the performance’s prime virtue is the candescent conducting of Fritz Stiedry. His visionary readings of the familiar Overture and the desolate Prelude to Act 3 are heightened by unusually good broadcast sound, captured by the late Richard Itter on state-of-the-art equipment. This thrilling Euryanthe fully vindicates Weber’s – and Chézy’s – achievement.’ – Christopher Webber, 2019

A BBC studio recording, broadcast on 30 September 1955. The source recording is part of the ‘Itter Broadcast Collection’ held by the Lyrita Recorded Edition Trust.

Cast:
- King Louis VI: Kurt Böhme (bass)
- Adolar, Count of Nevers: Frans Vroons (tenor)
- Euryanthe of Savoy, Adolar’s bride: Joan Sutherland (soprano)
- Rudolph, a knight: Lloyd Strauss-Smith (tenor)
- Lysiart, Count of Forest: Otakar Kraus (bass-baritone)
- Eglantine of Puiset, a prisoner, daughter of a rebel: Marianne Schech (soprano)
- Bertha, a country girl: Beryl Hatt (soprano)

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