Hilde Gueden sings Operetta

my first choice is “Operetta Evergreens” in which Hilde Gueden is the lovely soloist in selections from Johann Strauss, Lehár, Kálmán, Zeller and others — Gramophone Magazine, December 1962

Release Date: 22nd Dec 2015
Catalogue No: ELQ4820656
Label: Eloquence
Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

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Johann Strauss II, Fritz Kreisler: Wiener Blut (operetta) - Arranged Schönherr / Act 2

Work length9:01

Hilde Gueden (soprano)
Wiener Staatsoper
Max Schönherr
Recorded: 1954-06
Recording Venue: Musikverein, Vienna

Medley - Wiener Blut - Die Fledermaus - Sissy

Track length9:01

Emmerich Kálmán, Oscar Straus, Leo Fall, Franz Lehár: Countess Maritza (Gräfin Maritza)

Work length9:41

Hilde Gueden (soprano)
Wiener Staatsoper
Max Schönherr
Recorded: 1954-06
Recording Venue: Musikverein, Vienna

Medley - Countess Mariza - The Chocolate Soldier - Madame Pompadour

Track length9:41

Ascher, Carl Michael Ziehrer, Franz Lehár: Hoheit tanzt Walzer

Work length8:31

Hilde Gueden (soprano)
Wiener Staatsoper
Max Schönherr
Recorded: 1954-06
Recording Venue: Musikverein Vienna

Medley - Der Zarewitsch - Schon Ist Die Welt

Track length8:31

Oscar Straus, Franz Lehár, Johann Strauss II: Rund um die Liebe

Work length9:10

Hilde Gueden (soprano)
Wiener Staatsoper
Max Schönherr
Recorded: 1954-06
Recording Venue: Musikverein Vienna

Medley The Merry Widow - Wiener Blut

Track length9:10

Excerpt, Stolz, R: Der Favorit

Work length3:13

Hilde Gueden (soprano)
Kingsway Symphony Orchestra
Hans May
Recorded: 1949-04
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

"Du sollst der Kaiser meiner Seele sein"

Track length3:13

Dostal: Clivia

Work length3:16

Hilde Gueden (soprano)
Kingsway Symphony Orchestra
Hans May
Recorded: 1949-04
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

"Ich bin verliebt"

Track length3:16

Dostal: Die Flucht ins Glück

Work length3:12

Hilde Gueden (soprano)
Kingsway Symphony Orchestra
Hans May
Recorded: 1949-04
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Wiegenlied

Track length3:12

Grothe: Postillion Lied (Die Schwedische Nachtigall)

Work length3:05

Hilde Gueden (soprano)
Kingsway Symphony Orchestra
Hans May
Recorded: 1949-04
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Lehár: Paganini - operetta in 3 acts - Act 2

Work length3:04

Hilde Gueden (soprano)
Kingsway Symphony Orchestra
Hans May
Recorded: 1949-04
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

"Liebe, du Himmel auf Erden"

Track length3:04

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

Work length3:15

Hilde Gueden (soprano)
Kingsway Symphony Orchestra
Hans May
Recorded: 1949-04
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

"Einer wird kommen"

Track length3:15

Lehár: Giuditta - original version - Act 2

Work length4:13

Harald Pröglhöf (bass (vocal)), Hilde Gueden (soprano), Waldemar Kmentt (tenor)
Wiener Staatsoper
Rudolf Moralt
Recorded: 1957-10
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Schön wie die blaue Sommernacht

Track length4:13

Lehár: Giuditta - original version - Act 4

Work length4:51

Hilde Gueden (soprano)
Wiener Staatsoper
Rudolf Moralt
Recorded: 1957-10
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Mein Lippen, die küssen so heiss

Track length4:51

Lehár: Der Graf von Luxembourg, Operetta in 3 Acts - Act 2

Work length6:20

Hilde Gueden (soprano), Waldemar Kmentt (tenor)
Wiener Volksopernorchester
Max Schönherr
Recorded: 1965-05
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Sind Sie von Sinnen - Lieber Freund...Bist du's,

Track length6:20

Excerpt, Lehár: Die Lustige Witwe

Work length5:36

Hilde Gueden (soprano)
Wiener Staatsoper
Robert Stolz
Recorded: 1958-03
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

"Es lebt eine Vilja" (Vilja-Lied)

Track length5:36

Kalman: Countess Maritza (Gräfin Maritza) / Act 1

Work length5:01

Hilde Gueden (soprano)
Wiener Staatsoper
Robert Stolz
Recorded: 1961-05
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

"Höre ich Zigeunergeigen"

Track length5:01

Kalman: Countess Maritza (Gräfin Maritza) / Act 2

Work length4:14

Hilde Gueden (soprano)
Wiener Staatsoper
Robert Stolz
Recorded: 1961-05
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

"Sag' ja, mein Lieb, sag' ja"

Track length4:14

Benatzky: Im weissen Rössl (The White Horse Inn)

Work length2:58

Hilde Gueden (soprano)
Wiener Staatsoper
Robert Stolz
Recorded: 1961-05
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

"Mein Liebeslied muß ein Walzer sein"

Track length2:58

Lehár: Der Zarewitsch / Act 3

Work length3:57

Hilde Gueden (soprano)
Wiener Staatsoper
Robert Stolz
Recorded: 1961-05
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

"Kosende Wellen"

Track length3:57

Fall, L: Madame Pompadour

Work length2:31

Hilde Gueden (soprano)
Wiener Staatsoper
Robert Stolz
Recorded: 1961-05
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

"Heut könnt einer sein Glück bei mir machen"

Track length2:31

Strauss, J, II: Casanova

Work length4:42

Hilde Gueden (soprano)
Wiener Staatsoper
Robert Stolz
Recorded: 1961-05
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Nonnenchor und Lied der Laura

Track length4:42

Lehár: Zigeunerliebe (Gipsy Love) / Act 2

Work length4:08

Hilde Gueden (soprano)
Wiener Staatsoper
Robert Stolz
Recorded: 1961-05
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

"Hör' ich Zymbalklänge"

Track length4:08

Excerpt, Stolz, R: Der Favorit

Work length3:17

Hilde Gueden (soprano)
Wiener Staatsoper
Robert Stolz
Recorded: 1961-05
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

"Du sollst der Kaiser meiner Seele sein"

Track length3:17

Strauss, J, II: Die Fledermaus: Act 2

Work length3:22

Hilde Gueden (soprano)
Wiener Staatsoper
Robert Stolz
Recorded: 1961-05
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

"Mein Herr Marquis"

Track length3:22

Zeller: Der Obersteiger (The Overman)

Work length3:48

Hilde Gueden (soprano)
Wiener Staatsoper
Robert Stolz
Recorded: 1961-05
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

"Sei nicht bös, es kann nicht sein'"

Track length3:48

Straus, O: The Chocolate Soldier (Der Tapfere Soldat) / Act 1

Work length3:26

Hilde Gueden (soprano)
Wiener Staatsoper
Robert Stolz
Recorded: 1961-05
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

"Held meiner Träume"

Track length3:26

Strauss, J, II: Wiener Blut (operetta) / Act 2

Work length2:57

Hilde Gueden (soprano)
Wiener Staatsoper
Robert Stolz
Recorded: 1961-05
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

"Ich war ein echtes Wiener Blut"

Track length2:57

Strauss, J, II: Frühlingsstimmen Waltz, Op. 410 (Vocal Version)

Work length6:05

Hilde Gueden (soprano)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Josef Krips
Recorded: 1956-10-12
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Strauss, Josef: Dorfschwalben aus Österreich - waltz, Op. 164

Work length5:39

Hilde Gueden (soprano)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Josef Krips
Recorded: 1956-10-12
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Korngold: "Glück, das mir verblieb" (Mariettalied)

Work length5:10

Hilde Gueden, Wiener Philharmoniker, Horst Stein
Recorded: 1969-11-12
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Charpentier, G: Depuis le jour (from Louise)

Work length4:17

Hilde Gueden (soprano)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Horst Stein
Recorded: 1972
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

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Several countries have their light operas: the British their Gilbert and Sullivan, the Spanish their zarzuelas, the French their operettes. All of these display quite tight-knit styles, but the operetta tradition of Austria, and specifically Vienna, is more diffuse, reflecting the differing styles of folk music found in the old Austro-Hungarian Empire. The world of operetta is a never-never-land of handsome hussar officers, princes and princesses, counts and countesses and romantic gypsies beloved of bourgeois Viennese who would probably hate to meet a real gipsy. The waltz, that most insidious of dances, is never far away. It is a kind of music that demands a special way of singing – yielding, lilting phrasing, often rather laidback rhythms, unless the singer is suddenly breaking into the fast section of a Hungarian czárdás. Artists from other countries can make a good stab at it, but the real thing is unmistakable when we encounter it. Hilde Gueden was the real thing.

Her first operetta studio session – held at Kingsway Hall in London in April 1949, with a pick-up ensemble conducted by Hans May. As well as two Lehár favourites, among these six tracks (CD1 5–10) are rarities by Nico Dostal and Franz Grothe. Two Giuditta excerpts come from the 1957 complete set in which Gueden starred with her longtime colleague Waldemar Kmentt; and their duet from Der Graf von Luxemburg is from the 1965 disc of excerpts. The celebrated Vilja-Lied, from the 1958 recording of The Merry Widow has seldom, if ever, been better done.

Included (on CD2) is her recording with Robert Stolz of twelve ‘operetta evergreens’ – the delightful cover of the original LP reproduced together with another five in the booklet. Josef Krips – who enjoyed conducting music of the Strauss family – accompanies her in two of the composers waltzes and a real rarity is her very last recording. Made with Horst Stein and the Suisse Romande it yielded just two arias: Marietta’s Lied from Korngold’s 1920 opera Die Tote Stadt and ‘Depuis le jour’ from Charpentier’s Louise.

Several of the recordings on the set are released internationally on Decca CD for the first time and this collection, recorded over a twenty-year period (1949–1969) offers a great glimpse of one of Vienna’s greatest opera stars in lighter (but not necessarily less demanding) fare.

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December 1962

my first choice is “Operetta Evergreens” in which Hilde Gueden is the lovely soloist in selections from Johann Strauss, Lehár, Kálmán, Zeller and others

Offer,Hilde Gueden sings Operetta

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