Rudolf Schock in 5 Italian Operas (sung in German) | Haenssler Profil PH20012

Rudolf Schock in 5 Italian Operas (sung in German)

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Label: Haenssler Profil

Cat No: PH20012

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 11

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 12th June 2020

Contents

Works

Donizetti, Gaetano

L'elisir d'amore

Mascagni, Pietro

Cavalleria rusticana

Puccini, Giacomo

Madama Butterfly
» Con onor muore
» Un bel di vedremo (Act 2)
Tosca

Verdi, Giuseppe

Don Carlo
» Tu che le vanita conoscesti (Act 4)
La forza del destino
Otello
» Ave Maria
» Mia madre aveva una povera ancella (Act 4) 'Willow Song'
Rigoletto

Artists

Rudolf Schock (tenor)
Carla Martinis (soprano)
Josef Metternich
Rita Streich
Fritz Hoppe
Margarete Klose
Silvia Menz
Wilhelm Lang
Leopold Clam
Ralf Peters
Otto Husch
Sigmund Roth
Martha Modl
Gottlob Frick
Gustav Neidlinger
Ursula Zollenkopf
Ernst-Max Luhr
Kurt Marschner
Karl Otto
Hildegard Hillebrecht
Thomas Tipton
Brigitte Fassbaender
Manfred Rohr
Annelies Kupper
Josef Greindl
Horst Gunter
Benno Kusche
Karl Otto
Ena Thiessen
Sieglinde Wagner
Stina-Britta Melander
Lothar Ostenburg
Ludwig Welter
Roswitha Bender
Alice Oelke
Eberhard Waechter
Bella Jasper
RIAS Kammerchor Berlin
Chor des Norddeutschen Rundfunks Hamburg
Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin
Chor der Wurttembergischen Staatstheater Stuttgart
Berliner Kammerchor
RIAS-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Sinfonieorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks Hamburg
Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin
Orchester der Wurttembergischen Staatstheater Stuttgart
Orchester der Staatsoper Berlin
Wiener Philharmoniker
Berliner Symphoniker

Conductors

Ferenc Fricsay
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
Wilhelm Schuchter
Heinrich Hollreiser
Ferdinand Leitner
Wilhelm Furtwangler
Ernst Marzendorfer

Works

Donizetti, Gaetano

L'elisir d'amore

Mascagni, Pietro

Cavalleria rusticana

Puccini, Giacomo

Madama Butterfly
» Con onor muore
» Un bel di vedremo (Act 2)
Tosca

Verdi, Giuseppe

Don Carlo
» Tu che le vanita conoscesti (Act 4)
La forza del destino
Otello
» Ave Maria
» Mia madre aveva una povera ancella (Act 4) 'Willow Song'
Rigoletto

Artists

Rudolf Schock (tenor)
Carla Martinis (soprano)
Josef Metternich
Rita Streich
Fritz Hoppe
Margarete Klose
Silvia Menz
Wilhelm Lang
Leopold Clam
Ralf Peters
Otto Husch
Sigmund Roth
Martha Modl
Gottlob Frick
Gustav Neidlinger
Ursula Zollenkopf
Ernst-Max Luhr
Kurt Marschner
Karl Otto
Hildegard Hillebrecht
Thomas Tipton
Brigitte Fassbaender
Manfred Rohr
Annelies Kupper
Josef Greindl
Horst Gunter
Benno Kusche
Karl Otto
Ena Thiessen
Sieglinde Wagner
Stina-Britta Melander
Lothar Ostenburg
Ludwig Welter
Roswitha Bender
Alice Oelke
Eberhard Waechter
Bella Jasper
RIAS Kammerchor Berlin
Chor des Norddeutschen Rundfunks Hamburg
Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin
Chor der Wurttembergischen Staatstheater Stuttgart
Berliner Kammerchor
RIAS-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Sinfonieorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks Hamburg
Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin
Orchester der Wurttembergischen Staatstheater Stuttgart
Orchester der Staatsoper Berlin
Wiener Philharmoniker
Berliner Symphoniker

Conductors

Ferenc Fricsay
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
Wilhelm Schuchter
Heinrich Hollreiser
Ferdinand Leitner
Wilhelm Furtwangler
Ernst Marzendorfer

About

Till well into the 1960s it was common practice to perform operas in the language of the country where they were being performed. What now seems strange to us, with our reverence for the original, was taken for granted then. Whatever the language, the artistic value of the performance depends very much upon its exponents. The proof is in the five recordings that make up this box set. The cast lists read like a Who’s Who of contemporary vocalists. We can count ourselves lucky to have these audio documents – edited to the highest possible technical standards – at our disposal.

Above all the recordings hangs the shining star of the great Rudolf Schock (1915-1986). Schock sang early on under the truly great conductors of his time such as Wilhelm Furtwängler, Georg Solti, Erich Leinsdorf, George Szell and Karl Böhm. He was one of the first German singers to be invited to London’s Royal Opera House Covent Garden, as was the case in the 1948/49 season. He concurrently and consistently expanded his repertoire in both directions, into operetta and into the works of the contemporary avant-garde.

Includes appendices to La forza del destino, and Carla Martinis singing arias by Verdi, Puccini and Mascagni.

Recorded 1950-63

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