Great Voices of the Early Years (Box Set) [Box set]

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Deutsche Grammophon is lucky in that World War II didn't slow classical recordings in Germany as it did in the United States but stimulated them: It was essential for wartime morale. Thus, if you can get past any repugnance related to these recordings' genesis, there's a huge amount to enjoy. There's a disc of lieder by all the prewar greats (Franz Volker, Tiana Lemnitz, Erna Berger, and Heinrich Schlusnus), a disc of Wagner featuring young Hans Hotter, opera and operetta performances by Berger and Helge Roswaenge, and a disc showing how the German singers gave Italian opera a distinctively Nordic but highly communicative edge. The set is crowned by a complete Winterreise that was recorded by Peter Anders in 1945 (and sounds it): the cultivated tenor's anguished performance embodies a Germany facing the abyss. --David Patrick Stearns

Great Voices of the Early Years (Box Set), Music, Heinrich Rehkemper, Heinrich Schlusnus, Theodor Scheidl, Georg Hann, Josef von Manowarda, Wilhelm Strienz, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Eduardo di Capua, Gaetano Donizetti, Friedrich von Flotow, Franz Lehar, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Franz Liszt, Carl Loewe, Albert Lortzing, Pietro Mascagni, Felix Mendelssohn, Carl Millocker, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Otto Nicolai, Max Niederberger, Giacomo Puccini, Max Reger, Gioachino Rossini, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Johann II Strauss, Richard Strauss, Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner, Carl Maria von Weber, Alexander Adolfovich Winkler, Hugo Wolf, Alois Melichar, Artur Rother, Clemens Krauss, Franz Schmidt, Gerhard Steeger, Heinrich Hollreiser, Herman Weigert, Johannes Heidenreich, Johannes Schuler, Karl Böhm, Leo Blech, Manfred Gurlitt, Robert Heger

Average customer rating: Well done and interesting Wonderful biography, needs more proportion in the music

Life & Works of Bach Bach , Siepmann , and Shrapnel Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Instructional | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Similar Items: The Life and Works of Ludwig van Beethoven Life & Works The Life and Works of Frédéric Chopin The Life and Works of Joseph Haydn Brahms: Life & Works ASIN: B0000666A8 Release Date: 2002-07-16

Tracks:

1. Family Background And Early Years
2. Music: Capriccio On The Departure Of His Beloved Brother
3. Bach And The Organ
4. Music Toccata And Fugue In D Minow, BWV 565
5. Bach In Trouble
6. Music: Trio Sonata In E Flat, BWV 525
7. Bach The Husband And Father
8. Music: Vivaldi/Bach: Concerto In A Minor For Four Harpsichords
9. Bach The Younger Composer
10. Music: Prelude And Fugue In A Minor, BWV 543
11. Bach In Weimar (And In Jail)
12. Music: Prelude In E Flat Minor (The Well Tempered Clavier, Book 1)
13. Bach Leaves Weimar
14. Music: Violin Concerto In E Major (Finale)

Tracks:

1. Bach At Cothen
2. Music: Concerto For Two Violins (Largo Ma Non Tanto)
3. Bach And The Brandenburgs
4. Music: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 In D (First Movement)
5. From Grief To Joy Through Faith
6. Music: 'Et Resurrexit' (B Minor Mass)
7. New Beginnings: Bach Remarries And His Family Grows
8. Music: Aria In G
9. Goldberg Variations And Anna Magdalena's Notebook
10. Music: Stolzel: Bist Du Bei Mir
11. Domestic Happiness And The Move To Leipzig
12. Music: Magnificat
13. Bach's Duties At Lepzig
14. Music: Cantata No. 80 (Duetto)
15. Bach The Teacher
16. Music: Sinfonia (Three-Part Invention) In E Flat
17. The Great Keyboard Works On Educational Agenda
18. Music: Italien Concerto
19. A Letter To The King
20. Music: Cantata No. 147 (Opening Chorus)

Tracks:

1. Bach Takes Up The Poet's Pen
2. Music: Partita No. 1 In B Flat BWV 825 (Courante)
3. Bach's Frustration At Leipzig
4. Music: Singet Dem Herrn, BWV 225
5. Frustrations Intensify
6. Music: St John Passion (Opening Chorus)
7. Bach's Efforts To Leave Leipzig
8. Music: Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 (First Movement)
9. The King Of Poland's Jubilee
10. Music: Suite No. 3 In D, BWV 1068
11. The Ernesti Affair
12. Music: Prelude In D Major, BWV 532
13. Adolf Scheibe's Scathing Views On Bach
14. Music: Concerto In C For Three Harpsichords (Finale)

Tracks:

1. Bach And Opera
2. 'Coffee' Cantata (Excerpts)
3. 'Peasant' Cantata (Excerpts)
4. The Twilight Years
5. Music: The Art Of Fugue
6. Bach's Visit To Frederick The Great
7. Music: The Musical Offering
8. Decline And Death
9. Music: Mass In B Minor

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Well done and interesting.......2005-02-22

Wonderful biography, needs more proportion in the music.......2002-08-21

Now we have two more entries in this amazing series, again written and narrated by Jeremy Siepmann: "Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky" (8.558036-39) with a playing time of 4 hrs. 5 min. and "Johann Sebastian Bach" (8.558051-54) with a playing time of 4 hrs. 34 minutes. (Please see my comments for the Tchaikovsky on that webpage.)

In direct contrast to the tortured personality of Tchaikovsky, we have the life-loving J.S. Bach, he who lost his temper only when he ran up against ineptitude. Again, the biographical details are fascinating. But also again, the musical examples are far too few--especially for this prolific composer--and some are simply far too long. We do not really need a complete rendition of the famous "Toccata and Fugue" and certainly not of the "Prelude and Fugue in A minor" to which is devoted a 13 minute track.

Here the voice of Bach is supplied by actor John Shrapnel, with Trevor Nichols, Ruth Sillers and David Timson in supporting roles. So 5 stars for the biography, somewhat less for musical examples.

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Tracks:

1. Rigoletto: 'Pari siamo!
2. Rigoletto: 'Cortigiani, vil razza dannata'
3. Otello: 'Niun mi tema'
4. Pagliacci: 'Recitar!...Vesti la giubba'
5. Cavalleria Rusticana: Siziliana 'O Lola ch'hai di latti la cammisa'
6. Mattinata
7. Otello: 'Tu?! Indietro! fuggi!'
8. La Boheme: 'Quando men vo soletta per la vie'
9. Rigoletto: 'Caro nome'
10. La Fille Du Regiment: Tirolienne: 'Qu'est-ce que c'est que j'entends?'
11. Rigoletto: 'La donna e mobile'
12. TOSCA: 'Recondita armonia'
13. La forza del destino: 'Oh, tu che in seno agli angeli'
14. Aida: 'I sacri nomi di padre'
15. TOSCA: 'E lucevan le stelle'
16. L'Elisir d'Amore: 'Una furtiva lagrima'
17. Il Barbiere di Siviglia: 'Una voce poco fa'
18. Il Barbiere di Siviglia: 'La calunnia e un venticello'
19. TOSCA: 'Vissi d'arte'
20. Madame Butterfly: 'Un bel di vedremo'
21. Turandot: 'Nessun dorma'

Tracks:

1. Parsifal: 'Ich sah das Kind an seiner Mutter Brust
2. Lohengrin: In fernem Land
3. Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg: Morgenlich leutchtend im rosigen Schein
4. Parsifal: Des Weihgefasses gottlicher Gehalt
5. Das Rheingold: Weiche, Wotan, weiche!
6. Rienzi's Prayer: Allmacht'ger Vater, blick herab
7. Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg: Was duftet doch der Flieder
8. Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg: Wahn, Wahn, uberall Wahn
9. Der fliegende Hollander: The Dutchman's monologue
10. Die Walkure: Ein Schwert verhiess mir der Vater

Tracks:

1. Undine: Nun ist's vollbracht!
2. The Merry Wives of Windsor
3. The Magic Flute
4. The Magic Flute: Ein Madchen oder Weibchen
5. The Magic Flute: In diesen heil'gen Hallen
6. The Magic Flute: O Isis und Osiris
7. The Abduction From The Seraglio: Konstanze, dich wiederzusehen
8. Gasparone: O wenn ich doch ein Rauber war
9. Maria, mari: Schon strahlt die Nacht im Silberschein
10. Martha: Letzte Rose
11. Martha: Ach so fromm
12. Liebe bei Hof: Man nehme zwei Herzen
13. Chianti Song: Chianti-Lied
14. Eine Nacht In Venedig: The Gondolier's Song
15. The Land Of Smiles: Dein ist mein ganzes Herz
16. Der Rosenkavalier: Hab' mir's gelobt - Ist ein Traum, kann nicht wirklich sein
17. Der Freischutz: Einst traumte meiner sel'gen Base ... Trube
18. Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor: Als Bublein Klein an der Mutterbrust
19. Ariadne auf Naxos: An Ihre Platze, meine Damen und Herrn!

Tracks:

1. Feldeinsamkeit Op. 86 no. 2
2. Epiphanias
3. Fruhlingsfahrt Op. 45 - No. 2
4. Auftrage Op. 77 No. 5
5. Adelaide Op. 46
6. An die Hoffnung Op. 32
7. An Schwager Kronos D 369
8. Erlkonig D 328
9. Auf Flugeln des Gesanges Op. 34 No. 2
10. Eifersucht und Stolz from Die schone Mullerin D 795
11. Die drei Zigeuner, Searle 320
12. Meeresleuchten Op. 145 No. 1
13. Verborgenheit
14. Wiegenlied Op. 49 No. 4
15. Traum durch die Dammerung Op. 29 No. 1
16. Allerseelen Op. 10 No. 8
17. An die Musik D 547
18. Der Musensohn D 764
19. Am Grabe Anselmos D 504
20. Traume from Wesendonck - Lieder
21. Des Kindes Gebet from Schlichte Weisen Op. 76 No. 22
22. Herzenstausch from Schlichte Weisen Op. 76 No. 5

Tracks:

1. Winterreise D 911: Gute Nacht
2. Winterreise D 911: Die Wetterfahne
3. Winterreise D 911: Gefrorne Tranen
4. Winterreise D 911: Erstarrung
5. Winterreise D 911: Der Lindenbaum
6. Winterreise D 911: Wasserflut
7. Winterreise D 911: Auf dem Flusse
8. Winterreise D 911: Ruckblick
9. Winterreise D 911: Irrlicht
10. Winterreise D 911: Rast
11. Winterreise D 911: Fruhlingstraum
12. Winterreise D 911: Einsamkeit
13. Winterreise D 911: Die Post
14. Winterreise D 911: Der greise Kopf
15. Winterreise D 911: Die Krahe
16. Winterreise D 911: Letzte Hoffnung
17. Winterreise D 911: Im Dorfe
18. Winterreise D 911: Der sturmische Morgen
19. Winterreise D 911: Tauschung
20. Winterreise D 911: Der Wegweiser
21. Winterreise D 911: Das Wirtshaus
22. Winterreise D 911: Mut!
23. Winterreise D 911: Die Nebensonnen
24. Winterreise D 911: Der Leiermann

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Track Listings:

1. Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 9 In D Major
2. Handel: Chandos Anthems, Vol. 3 - Nos. 7, 8 & 9
3. Haydn: Masses 'sancti Nicolai', 'brevis S.Joannis De Deo', 'brevis' [Import]
4. Hector Berlioz: La Damnation De Faust, Op. 24
5. I Got Rhythm
6. J.S. Bach: 6 Keyboard Partitas
7. Johannes Brahms (NY Philomusica)
8. Josef Gabriel Rheinberger: Motets, Masses & Hymns
9. LISA DELLA CASA : Sings Richard Strauss
10. Liszt, Prokofiev and Chopin

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