Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Paul Schoeffler, Hilde Gueden, Gunther Treptow, Karl Dönch, Otto Edelmann, Anton Dermota & Else Schürhoff
Vienna State Opera Chorus & Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Hans Knappertsbusch
The cast centres around the nobel Hans Sachs of Paul Schoeffler in one of his very finest recordings, opposite the totally enchanting Eva of Hilde Gueden...Knappertsbusch's direction is spacious...
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Paul Schoeffler, Hilde Gueden, Gunther Treptow, Karl Dönch, Otto Edelmann, Anton Dermota & Else Schürhoff
Vienna State Opera Chorus & Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Hans Knappertsbusch
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The cast centres around the nobel Hans Sachs of Paul Schoeffler in one of his very finest recordings, opposite the totally enchanting Eva of Hilde Gueden...Knappertsbusch's direction is spacious...
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Contents and tracklist
- Hilde Gueden (soprano), Anton Dermota (tenor), Alfred Poell (baritone), Otto Edelmann (bass), Erich Majkut (tenor), Else Schurhoff (soprano), Harald Pröglhöf (bass), Franz Bierbach (bass), Ljubomir Pantscheff (bass), Hermann Gallos (tenor), Karl Donch (baritone), Paul Schoeffler (bass-baritone), Hugo Meyer-Welfing (tenor), Wilhelm Felden (bass), William Wergnick (tenor), Günther Treptow (tenor)
- Vienna State Opera Chorus, Wiener Philharmoniker
- Hans Knappertsbusch
- Recorded: 2-9 September 1950 and 11-22 September 1951
- Recording Venue: Musikvereinsaal, Vienna
Act I Scene 3: Seid meiner Treue wohl versehen (Pogner, Beckmesser, Walther, Sachs, Vogelgesang, Nachtigall)
Track length4:38
Act I Scene 3: Zu einer Freiung und Zunftberatung (Kothner, Pogner, Vogelgesang, Ortel, Zorn, Nachtigall, Moser...)
Track length2:54
Act I Scene 3: Das heisst ein Wort! (The Masters, Apprentices, Sachs, Pogner, Beckmesser)
Track length10:33
Act I Scene 3: Am stillen Herd in Winterszeit (Walther, Sachs, Beckmesser, Kothner, Vogelgesang, Nachtigall)
Track length7:30
Act I Scene 3: Halt! Meister! Nicht so geeilt! (Sachs, Beckmesser, Nachtigall, Kothner, Pogner, the other Masters)
Track length7:45
Act II Scene 2: Lass seh’n, ob Meister Sachs zu Haus? (Pogner, Eva, Magdalene, Sachs, David)
Track length6:27
Act II Scene 5: Hort, ihr Leut’ und lasst euch sagen (Night-Watchman, Sachs, Walther, Eva)
Track length3:24
Act II Scene 5: Darf ich mich Meister nennen (Beckmesser, Sachs, Neighbours, David, Magdalene, Apprentices, Journeymen, Masters, Women...)
Track length5:41
Act III Scene 5: Sankt Crispin, lobet ihn! (The Shoemakers, the Tailors, the Bakers)
Track length3:09
Act III Scene 5: Silentium! Silentium!, "Entrance of the Mastersingers" (Apprentices, All the People)
Track length3:20
Act III Scene 5: Euch macht ihr’s leicht (Sachs, Pogner, Beckmesser, Kothner, the People, the Apprentices)
Track length7:19
Act III Scene 5: Morgen ich leuchte in rosigem Schein (Beckmesser, the Masters, the People)
Track length4:10
Act III Scene 5: Das Lied, fürwahr, ist nicht von mir (Sachs, the Masters, the People, the Apprentices)
Track length4:12
Act III Scene 5: Morgenlich leuchtend in rosigem Schein (Walther, the People, Sachs, the Masters, Pogner, Eva)
Track length7:26
Awards and reviews
2010
The cast centres around the nobel Hans Sachs of Paul Schoeffler in one of his very finest recordings, opposite the totally enchanting Eva of Hilde Gueden...Knappertsbusch's direction is spacious and intense, and the transfer of the original mono recording is first-rate.
