Weber: Euryanthe / Sutherland, Vroons, Stiedry, BBC Symphony

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Prima Voce
Release Date
July 5, 2019
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      WEBER, CARL MARIA VON
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Bbc Chorus, Bbc Symphony Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Sutherland, Bohme, Vroons, Kraus, Schech, Strauss-Smith, Hatt, B
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 05, 2019
    • UPC
      0710357796920
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      NI7969
    • LABEL
      Prima Voce
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Overture

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Fritz Stiedry

    2. Act I Scene 1: Dem Frieden Heil nach Sturmestagen! (Women, Knights)

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Fritz Stiedry

    3. Act I Scene 1: Unter bluh'nden Mandelbaumen (Adolar)

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Frans Vroons

      Conductor: Fritz Stiedry

    4. Act I Scene 1: Heil Euryanth', der Lieblichsten der Schönen! (Chorus)

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Fritz Stiedry

    5. Act I Scene 1: Wohlan! Du kennst mein herrlich Eigenthum (Lysiart, Adolar, King, Chorus)

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Otakar Kraus, Frans Vroons, Kurt Böhme

      Conductor: Fritz Stiedry

    6. Act I Scene 2: Cavatina: Glocklein im Thale! Rieseln im Bach (Euryanthe)

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Joan Sutherland

      Conductor: Fritz Stiedry

    7. Act I Scene 2: Recitative: So einsam bangend find' ich Dich? (Eglantine, Euryanthe)

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Marianne Schech, Joan Sutherland

      Conductor: Fritz Stiedry

    8. Act I Scene 2: Aria: O mein Leid ist unermessen (Eglantine)

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Marianne Schech

      Conductor: Fritz Stiedry

    9. Act I Scene 2: Recitative: Freundin! Geliebte! an meine Brust (Euryanthe, Eglantine)

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Joan Sutherland, Marianne Schech

      Conductor: Fritz Stiedry

    10. Act I Scene 2: Duet: Unter ist mein Stern gegangen (Euryanthe, Eglantine)

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Joan Sutherland, Marianne Schech

      Conductor: Fritz Stiedry

    11. Act I Scene 2: Aria: Bethorte! Die an meine Liebe glaubt (Eglantine)

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Marianne Schech

      Conductor: Fritz Stiedry

    12. Act I Scene 2: Finale: Jubeltone, Heldensohne (Peasants, Knights)

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Fritz Stiedry

    13. Act II Scene 1: Aria: Wo berg' ich mich? Wo fand' ich Fassung wieder? (Lysiart)

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Otakar Kraus

      Conductor: Fritz Stiedry

    14. Act II Scene 1: Duet: Komm denn unser Leid zu rachen! (Eglantine, Lysiart)

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Marianne Schech, Otakar Kraus

      Conductor: Fritz Stiedry

    15. Act II Scene 2: Aria: Wehen mir Lufte Ruh (Adolar)

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Frans Vroons

      Conductor: Fritz Stiedry

    16. Act II Scene 2: Duet: Hin nimm die Seele mein (Euryanthe, Adolar)

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Joan Sutherland, Frans Vroons

      Conductor: Fritz Stiedry

    17. Act II Scene 2: Finale: Leuchtend fullt die Konigshallen (Princes, Knights)

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Fritz Stiedry

    18. Act III Scene 1: Recitative and Duet: Hier weilest du? Hier darf ich ruhn? (Euryanthe, Adolar)

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Joan Sutherland, Frans Vroons

      Conductor: Fritz Stiedry

    19. Act III Scene 1: Cavatina: So bin ich nun verlassen (Euryanthe)

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Joan Sutherland

      Conductor: Fritz Stiedry

    20. Act III Scene 1: Lasst mich hier in Ruh erblassen (Euryanthe, King, Chorus)

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Joan Sutherland, Kurt Böhme

      Conductor: Fritz Stiedry

    21. Act III Scene 1: Zu ihm, zu ihm! O weilet nicht! (Euryanthe, Chorus)

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Joan Sutherland

      Conductor: Fritz Stiedry

    22. Act III Scene 2: Der Mai bringt frische Rosen dar (Bertha, Rudolph, Peasants)

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Beryl Hatt, Lloyd Strauss-Smith

      Conductor: Fritz Stiedry

    23. Act III Scene 2: Wedding March

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Fritz Stiedry

    24. Act III Scene 2: Trotze nicht, Vermessener! (Peasants, Lysiart's Armed Soldiers, Adolar, Lysiart)

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Frans Vroons, Otakar Kraus

      Conductor: Fritz Stiedry

    25. Act III Scene 2: Finale: Lasst ruhn das Schwert, der hochste Richter naht (King, Adolar, Eglantine, Chorus, Lysiart, Chorus of Hunters)

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Kurt Böhme, Frans Vroons, Marianne Schech, Otakar Kraus

      Conductor: Fritz Stiedry


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 Bohme 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 Chezy’s –achievement.

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REVIEW:

Despite big cuts (including around 20 minutes’ worth of Act 3), this is a well-prepared performance of considerable merits. Not the least of these is the proof that Joan Sutherland could indeed have made a serious career in the dramatic German Fach: she sounds an outstandingly fluent and natural exponent of the titlerole. Conductor Fritz Stiedry’s preserved Wagner performances are often a little spotty but here he seems in well-ordered control of everything. All the other major roles are on committed top form.

– Gramophone