ger cond. Detmold Chamber Orchestra, Gerd 1685) wrote as a berceuse, part of the inci- Berg cond.ANGEL S This is a very satisfying showcase for the 36610 $5.98. dental music for a comedy by Calderon de la highly gifted and always dependable Anne- Performance: Lusty Barca. It is quite lovely, and so tooare the liese Rothenberger. Dependability isnot in- Recording: Good many other examples of music here which tended as faint praise: there are undoubtedly Stereo Quality: Good would have been performed as part ofa more exciting theatrical personalities than theatrical production in that period. Wheth- Miss Rothenberger, on stage and on records, Hunting is even more than a big national er a gentle cuatro (a madrigal quartet) by pastime in Germany; it is something like a but few can match her control andsecure the seventeenth -century composer Carlos Pa- musicality in the soubrette repertoire,for cult. German legends are full of hunters and titio(chapelmaster of the Madrid Royal prodigious hunting feats, and the "glories" which she is admirably suited inappearance Chapel), a lively Bailete (a danced andsung as well as voice quality. (It was that soubret- of the sport have been sung by some of the ensemble piece) by the Portuguese Carme- best German poets and musicians. The ap- tish appearance, in fact, that made her Lulu, lite Padre Manuel Correa (d. 1653),or an intheHamburg Operaproduction, pearance of such a disc as this, then, is not infectious so instrumentalvillanescabythe startlinglyeffectiveinitsamoral detach. surprising, nor isit odd that its German chapelmaster of Seville Cathedral, Francisco producers went all out in their effort to sur- ment.) In music that calls for this kind of Guerrero (1528-1599), these piecesare all youthful presence and neat lyrical vocaliza- round these hunting songs with "authentic extremely entertaining and thoroughly capti- hunting horns and sounds of the field," to tion-the Fidelio,Freischillz, and Undine vating. The anthology,incidentally,con- excerpts on this record-she leaves nothing say nothing of the orchestras, ensembles, and cludes with three examples of popular sacred instrumental specialists. And the singer is to be desired. Her Mozart is also admirable song, two by Guerrero and one by Mateo for its pure tone quality and clear articula- Gottlob Frick, whose hunting credentials are Flecha (1530-1604), another chapelmaster. tion. Though it impeccable (Hunding in Die IValkiire, Kas- is true that her "Madera These, in their popular approach to sacred alter Aden" is somewhat lacking in dramatic par in Der Freischutz) and who, as the liner subjects, are not in the least different from notes assure us,is an "enthusiastic hunts- thrust, it is equally true that when weightier, man" in his idle hours as well. At sixty- Donna -Anna- and Norma -like voices under- three, Herr Frick canstill trumpet forth take this difficult aria, they are not likely to some mighty sounds, though his tone no negotiate its florid passages with Miss Roth- longer boasts the steadiness and sonority of enberger's agility. Oscar's arias from Un hal- a few years ago. The four solo hornists, the lo in maschera are skillfully, ifnot excep- choruses, the zither soloist, and even the tionally, done. Only in the La Trariata scene, participating birds all rise triumphantly to in which she exhibits instances of unsteadi- ness, does she fall below her otherwise con- the occasion. The program consists of Aus- sistently high standards. The orchestral ac- trian and German folk songs in addition to companiments are expert and are captured the art songs listed. The most engaging mu- in rich sound. sicalselection,for me atleast, was "Ein G. J. Schutz bin ich" from Conradin Kreutzer's romantic opera Das Nachtlager in Granada. RECORDING OF SPECIAL MERIT My own attitude toward hunting is that ANDRES SEGOVIA: The Unique Art of of monumental indifference. Were this not Andres Segovia. Bach: Allemande in A so, perhapsI would respond tothe disc Minor: Sarabande in A Minor; Gigue in A more enthusiastically. But though, for me, its Minor. Villa -Lobos: Prelude No. 1, in E musicalmeritislimited,animpressive amount of care and professionalism has gone Minor. Albeniz: Mallorca. Milan: Parana No.1,in A Minor; Parana No. 6, in D into its making. G. 1. Major; Parana No. 3, in C Major; Parana No. 5, in D Major; Parana No. 2, in B RECORDING OF SPECIAL MERIT Minor; Parana No. -i, in D Malay. Tansman: Prelude, from the Suite "Homage to Chopin". NEW YORK PRO MUSICA: Music of the Spanish Theater in the Golden Age (and t Harris: I :/riaiions and Fugue on a Theme of

I Handel. Andres Segovia Three Popular Sacred Songs). Anonymous \ -I NI:ERGER (guitar).DECCA Highly.illyd. tiiii.Uy.S dependable DL 710167 55.79, ® 6-10167 57.95, C) Theater Dances (early 17th C.): El 2illano: 73-10167 56.95. Matachin;Marizapalos.Patifio:Cuatro: Pastorcillo !doe; Cuatro de empezar: Cmttar the foregoingtheater -type pieces and are Performance: Beyond praise las gracias de Flora. Jose Marin: Pasacalle: equally entertaining. The New York Pro Recording:Excellent Que bien canta un ruiserior; Pasacalle: No Musica is in excellent form for the anthology, Stereo Quality: Adds presence piense Minguilla; Pacacalle: Desenganemon- and they perform the varied collection with skill and imagination. The temposare sen- Anyone who has ever sat in a large concert os ya. Anonymous: jacara: No hay que de- hall listening to the lone voice of Segovia's cirle el primor. Hidalgo: Quedito, pasito. sible ones and the renditions are character- istically flavorful. Texts and translations guitar on a distant stage, almost afraid to Correa: Bailete: Con lac mozas de Vallecas. are breathe for fear of missing one of those Guerrero:Villanesca;SacredVillanesca: included, and the sonic reproduction is quite gitod. subtly strummed, immaculatelyarticulated Todo quarto pudo dar; Sacred Villanesca: chords, knows what a treat is in store for him Virgen sancta. Valenciano: Tonada a solo: when a program by the great guitarist be- Ay del actor. Mudarra: Fantasia que con- ANNELIESE ROTHENBERGER: Opera comes available on records. "The Unique trahaze la harpa en la manera de Ludovico. Arias. Mozart: The Abduction from the Seraglio: Mader)/ alter Ad,n. The Magic Art of Andres Segovia" is no let -down. The Flecha: Ensalada: El Fuego. New York Pro bill of fare isa particularly generous one, Musica, John Reeves White dir.DECCADL Flute: Ach, ich ffihPs. Beethoven: Fidelio: 0 fear ich schon mit dir vereint. Weber: Der offering an allemande, a sarabande, and a 79436 $5.98. gigue by Bach from a suite originally written Freirchillz:&listtraumtemeiner seP gen for the lute, Performance: Entertaining Base .. Trilben Augen. Lortzing: Undine: a highly formal prelude by Recording: Excellent Villa -Lobos, and a transcription of the rhap- So zeisse, dais in alien Elementen. . . Doch Stereo Quality:Fine sodic Mallorca by Albeniz on the first side, kann auf Erden. Verdi: Un ballo htmas- chera: Volta la Lena; Sailer vorreste. Riga- and on side two six stately paranas from the This third album by the New York Pro pen of Luis Milan, the somber prelude from Musica devoted to the music of Spain (earlier lello: Tulle le Jes/c.l.,z Trariata: P strano the suite Homage to Chopin by the Polish- . . . Ah! fors'elui . . . albums on Decca were Medieval and Ren- Sempre libera. born Anneliese Rothenberger (soprano); Orches- contemporarycomposerAlexander aissance collections) for the most part takes Tansman, and a set of variations, climaxed in the kind of repertoire that was associated traofthe Deutsche Oper,Berlin, Hans Zanotelli cond.; Berlin Symphony, Wilhelm by a fugue, by Albert Harris, a West Coast with the Spanish lyric theater in the late composer. Harris is something of a guitarist Schachter cond.SERAPHIMS 60092 $2.49. Renaissance and early Baroque. There is himself, and his understanding of the instru- only one piece that has an absolutely definite Performance: Neat and smooth ment is revealed in a stunning work that is connection with a specific stage work, "Que- Recording: Good somehow modern despite the strict Baroque pasito," which Juan Hidalgo (c. 1600- Stereo Quality:Good idiom in which itis couched. The playing is 128 STEREO REVIEW