The opera was started to be recorded in stereo, but it seems that the reason it ended up in mono only was due to Fischer-Dieskau and Wächter: apparently they had disagreements about where their microphones would be placed or who would have more microphones (and therefore who would be better listened). a ridiculous matter of egos, and thanks to that ridiculousness, Legge made the decision to end the recording only in mono, in order to keep the party peaceful and avoid major setbacks.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte
Otto Klemperer: Philharmonia Orchestra (1964)
Nicolai Gedda, Gundula Janowitz, Walter Berry, Gerhard Unger, Lucia Popp, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Christa Ludwig, Ruth-Margret Pütz, Marga Höffgen, Franz Crass, Gottlob Frick, Philharmonia Chorus (Wilhelm Pitz, chorus master)
I've just finished reading Peter Heyworth's two-volume biography of Klemperer, and thought this recording would be appropriate. It is enchanting.
The Love for Three Oranges was my first opera I saw on stage as a child !!! You won't believe where and under what circumstances
.It was a general rehearsal at the Komische Oper in Berlin. My uncle was second oboe/cor in the orchestra, his wife in the cello section. I have relatives working there today, still. We used to go and visit every year from West Germany and play hide and seek in the allotments in Pankow with all the cousins from the East. Wonderful memories. One time we all went to the rehearsal of the Prokofiev. I went more often than that, but this one time stuck in my mind. I remember sitting in the first row, looking down into the pit and seeing the oranges on stage, but not much else. I wonder which production it was.....but can probably look this up somehow, given that I know the timeframe it must have been within. I think it must have been in the 1970's.
Strange I remember this today. Ah well.....
| Rimski-Korsakov*, Kirov Orchestra, Valery Gergiev - The Tsar's Bride 2xCD, Album + Box Philips 462 618-2 1999 Germany |
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