Gala Sequence: Part 1 Renata Tebaldi ~ Fernando Corena ~ Birgit Nilsson ~ Mario del Monaco ~ Teresa Berganza ~ Joan Sutherland / Part 2 Jussi Bjorling ~ Leontyne Price ~ Giulietta Simionato & Ettore Bastianini ~ Ljuba Welitsch
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Decca SET 201-203 1960 LP's Matrices: ZAL 4923 -4E / ZAL 4926 -1E / ZAL 4927 -1E.Recorded: June/July 1960 - Sofiensaal, Vienna, also Rome & London.
The Gala Sequence was mastered at much lower-level than the main recording: as is the SDD, below; levels there set for 'Auf der Jagd' climaxes: so 'Fledermaus' is much quieter compared to the 1960 version..
Johann Strauss II: "Die Fledermaus" - overture / Johann Strauss II: Annen Polka & Auf der Jagd
Josef Strauss: Delirien - waltz (really nice..)
Johann Strauss II: "Gipsy Baron" - overture / Johann Strauss II: Tales from the Vienna Woods. 5 files zip FLAC Mega Download
Decca SDD 259 (RCA SB 2091) 1971 LP/matrices: ZAL 9925 -1W / ZAL 9926 -1W Recorded: 7/8 April 1959 - Sofiensaal, Vienna
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Herbert von Karajan. STEREO files (Re-edited) SDD 259 Sleeve-note >>>
Gala - Part 1 Renata Tebaldi (Villa-Lied -Lehar:"Merry Widow") ~ Fernando Corena ('Domino' -Ferari) ~
Birgit Nilsson (I could have danced all night -Lerner/Loewe:"My Fair Lady") ~ Mario del Monaco ('Passione' -Valente) ~ Teresa Berganza ('Lullaby' -Lavilla) ~ Joan Sutherland ('Il Bacio' -Arditi)
Gala - Part 2 Jussi Bjorling (Dein ist meinganzes Herz -Lehar:"The Land of Smiles") ~ Leontyne Price (Summertime -Gershwin:"Porgy & Bess") ~ Giulietta Simionato & Ettore Bastianini (Anything you can do.. -Berlin:"Annie get your gun") ~ Ljuba Welitsch ('Wien, Wien nur du allein' -Sieczynski)
Many thanks for your recent reuploads! Your efforts - and the music - continue to be admired and appreciated.
ReplyDeleteHi TE, glad this one is still available. Walking through the park this afternoon and the carousel was belting out the overture - it sounds good on a fairground organ - but it was earworming me to distraction all the way home so I had to find a "proper" version. I remembered this. Sanity restored.
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Lovely weather, to-day.
DeleteEverything is still available - now going back 5 years - but no idea how often they get downloaded (the blogs tend to be a 'resource' though - as I can see via some Google info).
The Strauss family LP is a missing Karajan SB - as have new/original SB's of the Beet 7/Brahms 1 in not too good sound (the Solti Beet 7 SXL turned-up recently in a new/original copy -and is superb).
I've some of those Fairground Organ LP's; sometime back was thinking of making a compilation of Sound-Box LP's (the non-annoying tracks) as they can be ear-tickling.
More good weather. same park, same time, same piece (at least it wasn't the Espana waltz, also in its repertoire). Two unrelated thoughts:
ReplyDelete1. You are right about the qualities of Delirien, which I have never heard with its introduction; Weber turning into Liszt and ending up sounding like Fucik (no mean composer, Fucik, apart from one infamous number). Josef Strauss was quite an orchestrator, if it was him - I understand most of the original scores are lost.
2. Whenever a fairground organ plays "Zampa" the tune is quite inaudible under all the percussion effects, and the sheer noise of the mechanism itself.
Andrew Smith
I suspect 'Light Cavalry', on the hugely noisy mechanism of the Hallmark/PYE LP recording of a fairground 'Gavioli', is the nearest I have to a 'Zampa effect'....
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