Karajan L PACO 068 PACO068 STEREO Die Fledermaus - Strauss STEREO Karajan the CAST

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Rosalinde (wife of Eisenstein) Hilde Gueden Gabriel von Eisenstein (a well-to-do gentleman) Waldemar Kmentt Adele (maid to Rosalinde) Erika Köth conducts Johann Strauss Falke (friend of Eisenstein) Walter Berry Frank (a prison governor) Eberhard Wächter Alfred (an Italian tenor) Giuseppe Zampieri Die Fledermaus Prince Orlofsky (a young Russian nobleman) Regina Resnik Dr. Blind (Eisenstein's lawyer) Peter Klein Hilde Gueden Erika Köth Eberhard Wächter Giuseppe Zampieri Frosch (a prison warder) Erich Kunz Hilde Gueden Erika Köth Eberhard Wächter Giuseppe Zampieri Ida (Adele's sister) Hedwig Schubert Waldemar Kmentt Regina Resnik Walter Berry Erich Kunz Lord Barrymore (an English nobleman) Omar Godknow Ivan (butler to Prince Orlofsky) B. Fasolt Carikoni (an influential man) Andre von Mattoni Recorded at the Sofiensaal, Vienna, 12-20 June, 1960 Produced by John Culshaw, Christopher Raeburn and Erik Smith Engineered by James Brown (stereo) and Gordon Parry (mono) First issued in November 1960 as Decca SET201-3 Transfers from Decca SXL 6015/6

Transfer notes This recording of Die Fledermaus was chosen by Decca to launch a premium-price opera label, and in its original release included a sequence at the end of the second act, Prince Orlofsky's Gala Ball, in which a series of Decca's star singers not otherwise involved in the recording perform a series of songs, including Summertime, I Could Have Danced All Night, Anything You Can Do, and others. Although this sequence appears on subsequent Decca CD issues, it was excluded from their 1962 SXL issue and is omitted here - as the Gramophone critic noted in 1960, for some listeners it would surely constitute "a very considerable disruption of the kind of mood so far established". My initial aim in this new transfer and 32-bit XR-remastering was simply to see what 21st century technology might bring to a superb, but now 51-year-old recording, if anything. I was delighted to discover the answer was "quite a lot" - more immediacy, vibrancy and sense of dimension that really does breathe new life to a classic. I also noted carefully the pitching, as Viennese tunings traditionally tend to be slightly sharper than the standard A4=440Hz. The recording came off the Decca LPs at A=449.24, but close analysis of residual electrical hum suggested an original tuning of A=445.67, and my restoration therefore adopts this pitch. AR Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra & State Opera Chorus FULL PROGRAMME NOTES CAN BE FOUND ONLINE AT WWW.PRISTINECLASSICAL.COM SARL Pristine Audio, Le Bourg, 24610 St. Méard de Gurçon, France - Tel. (00) 33 553 821857 www.pristineclassical.com Stereo Studio Recording, 1960 STRAUSS DIE FLEDERMAUS PACO 068 KARAJAN VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA AND STATE OPERA CHORUS 6 5 4 3 2 1 Two CD 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 One CD Johann Strauss II Vienna Philharmonic OrchestraOperaState & Chorus D C B A 9 8 7 Adele, Falke)

No. 16: Finale - No. - 15: Terzett No. 14: Couplet - No. 13: Melodram - ist entflattert das Taubchen, 3 Act No. 11: Finale - No. 10: Czardas - - No. 9: Duett CoupletNo. 8: Ensemble und - No. 7: Couplet - usw schnell fliehen Wie 2 Act No. 5: Finale - No. - 4: Terzett - No. 3: Duett No. - 2: Terzett - No. 1a: Duettino ist entflattert das Taubchen, - No. 1 Introduction 1 Act - No. - 12: Entreact Ensemble - und No. - 6: Entreact Overture -

Dieser Anstand, so manierlich Anstand, Dieser Souper zum mir mit Komm (8:44) Trinke, Liebchen, trinke schnell trinke Liebchen, Trinke, So muss allein ich bleiben ich So allein muss Advokaten solchen mit Nein, O Fledermaus, o Fledermaus O Fledermaus, Reben der Feuerstrom Im

Ich lade gern mir Gaste ein Gaste mir gern lade Ich (8:01) Ich stehe voll Zagen voll stehe Ich Spiel' ich die Unschuld vom Lande vom Spiel' Unschuld die ich Klange der Heimat der Klange Ach, ich darf nicht hin zu dir zu hin nicht darf ich Ach, Olga, komm her, Ida auch Ida her, komm Olga, Taubchen, das entflattert ist entflattert das Taubchen, (Chorus)

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Ach, meine Herrn und Damen und Herrn meine Ach, Die FledermausDie

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(Rosalinde)

(Rosalinde, Eisenstein) Alfred, Ein Souper heut' uns winkt uns Souper heut' Ein

(Falke, Eisenstein)

(Soloists Chorus) and (Rosalinde, Adele, Eisenstein)

(Orlofsky)

(Rosalinde, Eisenstein) (Rosalinde, Blind) Dr. Eisenstein, (Soloists Chorus) and

(Frank) (Rosalinde, Frank) Alfred,

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(Adele, Ida, Frank) Ida, (Adele,

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(Eisenstein, Orlofsky,(Eisenstein, Ida, Herbert von Karajan

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(Chorus) (1:55) (2:42)

(5:24) (8:02)

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(4:09) (10:51)

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