Friedrich Schorr sings Richard Wagner

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Release Date: 8th Feb 2006
Catalogue No: 94512
Label: Hänssler
Series: Living Voices
Length: 71 minutes

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Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Work length47:51

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Friedrich Schorr (bass-baritone), Gota Ljungberg (soprano), Lauritz Melchior (tenor), Elisabeth Schumann (soprano), Ben Davis (tenor), Gladys Parr (soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra, Staatskapelle Berlin, Berlin State Opera Chorus
Albert Coates, Lawrance Collingwood, Leo Blech, Robert Heger
Recorded: 1928

Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Act II: Was duftet doch der Flieder, "Fliedermonolog"

Track length6:06

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Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Act II: Gut'n Abend, Meister!

Track length8:27

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Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Act II: Jerum! Jerum!

Track length4:02

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Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Act III: Wahn! Wahn! Uberall Wahn!, "Wahnmonolog"

Track length6:36

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Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Act III: Abendlich gluhend in himmlischer Glut

Track length4:19

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Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Act III: Aha! Da streicht die Lene schon um's Haus

Track length8:08

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Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Act III: Euch macht ihr's leicht

Track length4:18

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Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Act III: Verachtet mir die Meister nicht

Track length5:55

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Excerpt, Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer

Work length8:22

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Friedrich Schorr (bass-baritone)
Staatskapelle Berlin
Leo Blech
Recorded: 1929

Der fliegende Hollander, Act I: Die Frist ist um

Track length8:22

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Excerpt, Wagner: Die Walküre

Work length15:26

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Friedrich Schorr (bass-baritone)
Staatskapelle Berlin
Leo Blech
Recorded: 1928

Die Walkure, Act III: Leb wohl, "Wotan's Farewell" - Feuerzauber (Magic Fire Music)

Track length15:26

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Friederich Schorr was the leading heroic baritone in Germany during the 1920s. His studio and live recordings reveal him to have been the perfect embodiment of a Wagner singer, highly sensitive and extremely subtle in his interpretations. Schorr’s Hans Sachs was at the same time a shoemaker and a poet, a master craftsman and a singer, a realist and a daydreamer; a man rooted in tradition but open to innovation, straightforward but artful, cheerful but melancholy.

The son of the well-known cantor Mayer Schorr, Friedrich Schorr was born in Nagyvárad (Hungary) on September 2, 1888. In 1892 the family moved to Vienna, where his father had been appointed principal cantor at the central synagogue. Gustav Mahler was so taken with the cantor’s singing that he advised him to retrain as a heroic tenor. His five sons reputedly also developed exceptional vocal abilities, but he and his wife balked at the idea of their singing anywhere but in the synagogue.

Schorr appeared 356 times at the Metropolitan Opera, giving his farewell performance on March 2, 1943 in the role of the Wanderer in Siegfried. In the autumn of the same year he assumed direction of the Manhattan School of Music. He went on to produce operas at the New York City Opera and to direct an opera studio in Hartford, Connecticut. The many major singers he taught included Cornell MacNeil, Ezio Flagello, Grace Hoffman, Marilyn Tyler and Carlos Alexander. Friedrich Schorr died in

Farmington, Connecticut on August 14, 1953.

Original Recordings 1927 - 1929

Friedrich Schorr sings Richard Wagner

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