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Vienna, Women And Song

Renate Holm (soprano), Werner Krenn (tenor), Sonja Draksler (singer), Peter Minich (tenor), Herbert Prikopa (baritone, singer), Marika Nemeth (soprano, Monika Dahlberg (singer)

Wiener Volksopernorchester, Élémer Horváth Gypsy Band, Wiener Grosstadtkinderchor, Wiener Volksopernchor, Anton Paulik

Release Date: 14th Jun 2019
Catalogue No: ELQ4840156
Label: Eloquence
Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Strauss, J, II: Der Zigeunerbaron / Act 2

Work length4:37

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Renate Holm (soprano), Werner Krenn (tenor)
Wiener Volksopernorchester
Anton Paulik
Recorded: 1970-12
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Duet: Wer uns getraut

Track length4:37

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Strauss, J, II: Eine Nacht in Venedig - Operetta in 3 Acts - 1923 Version by Erich Korngold and Ernst Marischka / Act 2

Work length2:13

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Werner Krenn (tenor)
Wiener Volksopernorchester
Anton Paulik
Recorded: 1970-12
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Treu sein

Track length2:13

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Millöcker: Der Bettelstudent - Operetta in 3 Acts / Act 2

Work length3:28

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Renate Holm (soprano), Werner Krenn (tenor)
Wiener Volksopernorchester
Anton Paulik
Recorded: 1970-12
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Soll ich reden (Arr. Rudolf Bibl)

Track length3:28

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Strauss, J, II: Eine Nacht in Venedig - Operetta in 3 Acts - 1923 Version by Erich Korngold and Ernst Marischka

Work length4:04

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Werner Krenn (tenor)
Wiener Volksopernorchester
Anton Paulik
Recorded: 1970-12
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Lagunen-Waltzer

Track length4:04

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Excerpt, Suppe: Boccaccio

Work length8:22

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Renate Holm (soprano), Werner Krenn (tenor)
Wiener Volksopernorchester
Anton Paulik
Recorded: 1970-12
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Hab' ich nur deine Liebe

Track length2:51

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Mia bella fiorentina

Track length5:31

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Lehár: The Merry Widow (Die lustige Witwe) / Act 3

Work length3:00

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Renate Holm (soprano), Werner Krenn (tenor)
Wiener Volksopernorchester
Anton Paulik
Recorded: 1970-12
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Duett: Lippen schweigen

Track length3:00

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Lehár: Schön ist die Welt / Act 1

Work length5:34

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Renate Holm (soprano), Werner Krenn (tenor)
Wiener Volksopernorchester
Anton Paulik
Recorded: 1970-12
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Frei und jung dabei

Track length2:47

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Schön ist die Welt

Track length2:47

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Lehár: Schön ist die Welt / Act 3

Work length3:14

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Renate Holm (soprano)
Wiener Volksopernorchester
Anton Paulik
Recorded: 1970-12
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Ich bin verliebt

Track length3:14

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Lehár: Das Land des Lächelns / Act 1

Work length3:22

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Renate Holm (soprano), Werner Krenn (tenor)
Wiener Volksopernorchester
Anton Paulik
Recorded: 1970-12
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Bei einem Tee à deux

Track length3:22

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Lehár: Das Land des Lächelns / Act 2

Work length8:38

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Renate Holm (soprano), Werner Krenn (tenor)
Wiener Volksopernorchester
Anton Paulik
Recorded: 1970-12
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Dein ist mein ganzes Herz!

Track length3:26

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Wer hat die Liebe uns ins Herz geschenkt

Track length5:12

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Lehár: Paganini / Act 2

Work length10:46

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Werner Krenn (tenor), Renate Holm (soprano)
Wiener Volksopernorchester
Anton Paulik
Recorded: 1971

Gern hab' ich die Frau'n geküsst

Track length3:14

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Niemand liebt Dich

Track length5:00

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Liebe, du Himmel auf Erden

Track length2:32

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Lehár: Der Zarewitsch, Operetta in 3 Acts / Act 1

Work length4:54

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Werner Krenn (tenor)
Wiener Volksopernorchester
Anton Paulik
Recorded: 1970-12
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Allein! Wieder allein! (Wolgalied)

Track length4:54

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Lehár: Der Zarewitsch, Operetta in 3 Acts / Act 3

Work length3:47

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Renate Holm (soprano), Werner Krenn (tenor)
Wiener Volksopernorchester
Anton Paulik
Recorded: 1970-12
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Kosende Wellen

Track length3:47

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Lehár: Friederike - A play with music in 3 Acts / Act 2

Work length3:27

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Renate Holm (soprano)
Wiener Volksopernorchester
Anton Paulik
Recorded: 1970-12
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Warum hast du mich wachgeküsst?

Track length3:27

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Lehár: Der Graf von Luxemburg - Operetta in 3 Acts / Act 2

Work length5:55

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Renate Holm (soprano), Werner Krenn (tenor)
Wiener Volksopernorchester
Anton Paulik
Recorded: 1970-12
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Lieber Freund, man greift nicht nach den Sternen

Track length5:55

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Kalman: Die Zirkusprinzessin - Operetta in 3 Acts / Act 1

Work length4:18

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Werner Krenn (tenor)
Wiener Volksopernorchester
Anton Paulik
Recorded: 1970-12
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Zwei Märchenaugen

Track length4:18

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Dostal: Clivia / Act 2

Work length3:08

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Renate Holm (soprano)
Wiener Volksopernorchester
Anton Paulik
Recorded: 1970-12
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Ich bin verliebt

Track length3:08

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Künneke, Eduard: Der Vetter aus Dingsda - Sung in German / Act 1

Work length3:08

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Werner Krenn (tenor)
Wiener Volksopernorchester
Anton Paulik
Recorded: 1970-12
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Ich bin nur ein armer Wandergesell'

Track length3:08

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Rudolf Kattnig: Bel Ami - Operetta

Work length3:56

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Renate Holm (soprano), Werner Krenn (tenor)
Wiener Volksopernorchester
Anton Paulik
Recorded: 1970-12
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Bel ami, schöner Freund

Track length3:56

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Dostal: Die Ungarische Hochzeit / Act 2

Work length4:03

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Renate Holm (soprano)
Wiener Volksopernorchester
Anton Paulik
Recorded: 1970-12
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Spiel' mir das Lied von Glück und Treu

Track length4:03

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Rudolf Kattnig: Mädels vom Rhein

Work length2:04

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Werner Krenn (tenor)
Wiener Volksopernorchester
Anton Paulik
Recorded: 1970-12
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Ich weiss mir ein Mädel am sonningen Rhein

Track length2:04

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Czernik: Chi sa?

Work length2:36

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Renate Holm (soprano)
Wiener Volksopernorchester
Anton Paulik
Recorded: 1970-12
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Kalman: Gräfin Maritza / Act 1

Work length26:04

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Sonja Draksler (singer), Peter Minich (tenor), Herbert Prikopa (baritone), Marika Nemeth (soprano), Marika Nemeth (singer)
Élémer Horváth Gypsy Band, Wiener Volksopernorchester, Wiener Grosstadtkinderchor, Wiener Volksopernchor
Anton Paulik
Recorded: 1958-11-02
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Komm mit nach Varasdin

Track length3:49

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Gluck ist ein schöner Traum (Song of the Gypsy)

Track length2:10

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Wir singen dir, wir bringen dir ein Liedchen dar (Song of the Children)

Track length2:13

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Grüß mir mein Wien

Track length2:18

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Spiel, Zigeuner!

Track length1:27

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Höre ich Zigeunergeigen? (Entry of Countess Maritza)

Track length3:24

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Komm, Zigány

Track length3:30

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Bravo, Herr Verwalter

Track length7:13

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Kalman: Gräfin Maritza / Act 2

Work length24:48

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Peter Minich (tenor), Herbert Prikopa (singer), Monika Dahlberg (singer), Marika Nemeth (soprano)
Wiener Volksopernorchester, Wiener Volksopernchor, Élémer Horváth Gypsy Band
Anton Paulik
Recorded: 1958-11-02
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Intermezzo

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Wenn ich abends schlafen geh’… Ich möchte träumen von dir, mein Pucikám

Track length3:51

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Herrgott, was ist denn heut’ los… Einmal möcht’ ich wieder tanzen (Waltz Duet)

Track length1:59

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Mein lieber Schatz… Sag’ ja, mein Lieb, sag’ ja… Komm mit nach Varasdin!

Track length3:21

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Sonnenschein, hüll’ dich ein… O schöne Kinderzeit

Track length2:41

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Grüß mir mein Wien

Track length0:59

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Junger Mann ein Mädchen liebt

Track length2:24

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Hei Mariza, hei! Mariza heute mach dein Meisterstück

Track length8:03

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A feast of Viennese operetta on two Decca albums, newly remastered and reissued complete.

Born in Bratislava – Pressburg, as it was in 1901 – Anton Paulik became a reassuring presence for decades in the pit at the ‘lighter’ Viennese lyric theatres, who could make the music of the ‘Waltz King’ and his successors sparkle and swirl like few others. In charge at the Volksoper one night in summer 1969, Paulik was ‘flawless and apparently ageless’ according to the critic for Opera, who got to the heart of the conductor’s gifts: he ‘knows how to play operettas so that they were whistled in the streets from the premiere onwards, and he knows how to make them sound respectable at the same time. In this respect he is comparable only with the Clemens Krauss of the famous Fledermaus recording’ (also reissued by Eloquence, 4827379).

In 1958 Paulik and the Volksoper had recorded an album of excerpts from Emmerich Kálmán’s best-known operetta, Grafin Märitza. This was done under studio conditions at the city’s Sofiensaal, but thoroughly ‘run in’ after performances of a new production at the Volksoper. Paulik’s presence on the podium was a guarantor of authenticity: he had led the premiere back in 1926 at the Theater an der Wien. Marcel Prawy, who was close to Kálmán during the composer’s last years, produced the recording for RCA (it first appeared on Decca in 1973). To get them in the proper mood, Prawy took the entire cast to the nearby Hungarian border at Lake Neusiedel. While searching for a genuine gypsy band, Prawy and Paulik went to Vienna’s Pataky Restaurant where a new group had recently made its début. They signed the band on the spot, loaded the gypsies into two taxis, went to the Sofiensaal and began to rehearse.

In December 1970, Paulik and the Volksoper returned to the Sofiensaal, this time for Decca, to record a double-LP of Viennese operetta, which was duly released the following year as ‘Vienna, Women and Song’.

The set amounts to a history of the genre, as historically valuable as it is effortlessly enjoyable, opening with a duet from Der Zigeunerbaron and closing with a standalone song by Willy Czernik (1901-99, Chi sa? Between them feature hit numbers from perennial favourites such as Millocker’s Das Bettelstudent, Suppe’s Boccaccio, gems of Lehar from Die lustige Witwe, Das Land des Lächelns, Paganini and several others, before bringing the operatta story up to date with Kálmán, Künneke and names now less familiar to us such as Rudolf Kattnig (Mädels vom Rhein) and Nico Dostal (Die ungarische Hochzeit). With the soprano Renate Holm and tenor Werner Krenn at hand, both stalwarts of the operetta scene in the city, authenticity was once again guaranteed.

Vienna, Women And Song

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