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Weber - Der Freischutz | Orfeo - Orfeo d'Or C732072

Weber - Der Freischutz

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Label: Orfeo - Orfeo d'Or

Cat No: C732072

Barcode: 4011790732220

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 29th October 2007

Contents

Artists

Gundula Janowit
Renate Holm
James King
Eberhard Waechter
Manfred Jungwirth
Karl Ridderbusch
Gustav Elger
Franz Crass
Heinz Zednik
Choir and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera

Conductor

Karl Bohm

Works

Weber, Carl Maria von

Der Freischutz, J277

Artists

Gundula Janowit
Renate Holm
James King
Eberhard Waechter
Manfred Jungwirth
Karl Ridderbusch
Gustav Elger
Franz Crass
Heinz Zednik
Choir and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera

Conductor

Karl Bohm

About

Der Freischütz, which opened the Vienna State Opera in May 1972, was the first that had been staged in the house for a quarter of a century. From the opening bars of the overture, Karl Böhm and the Vienna State Opera Orchestra leave the listener in no doubt that the contrasts inherent in the score are graphically highlighted: the blackly Romantic demonism of the work is as sharply delineated as the homeliness of its bourgeois Biedermeier setting.

Touching in the unemotional simplicity that she brings to Weber's melodic lines, Gundula Janowitz, the ideal Agathe, misses none of the warmth and inwardness of the part. Here, as elsewhere, James King's dramatic and yet attractive voice demonstrates yet again why in the 1960s and 1970s he was the first choice in Heldentenor roles that required both youthful brilliance and baritonal richness.

As always at the Vienna State Opera, the smaller roles are all cast from strength, foremost among them are the Kilian of Heinz Zednik, anticipating his legendary Bayreuth Loge and Mime, and Eberhard Waechter's Prince Ottokar, who strikes a skilful balance between jovality and authority.

Cast:
Gundula Janowitz (Agathe)
Renate Holm (Aennchen)
James King (Max)
Eberhard Waechter (Ottokar)
Manfred Jungwirth (Kuno)
Karl Ridderbusch (Kaspar)
Gustav Elger (Samiel)
Franz Crass (Eremit)
Heinz Zednik (Kilian)

Live, 1972

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