NAXOS Historical CORNELIUS: The Barber of Baghdad 8.111337-38 was Time part, and (1786 - 1826) 2:15:44 Playing buffo MONO , 1961). July ...... Der Barbier von Bagdad Act 1Act 1I (beginning) 26:00 Act 1I (conclusion)WEBER Carl Maria von 52:26 20:21 36:57 Recorded in Berlin in 1944 in Berlin Recorded Berlin Radio Symphony Chorus Berlin Radio Symphony and Orchestra • Leopold Ludwig and Orchestra ADD # ( 4 % - - - - 8.111337-38 Abu Hassan ...... Witte Erich Omar ...... Michael Bohnen CD 11 $ CD 21 5 78:26 57:18 Fatime , and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf features The Gramophone The Arabian The Arabian Nights reviewer remarked that “there is no mistaking the enjoyment “there that remarked reviewer , based on Peter (1824 - 1874) (1824 Erich Leinsdorf The Gramophone CORNELIUS (Der Barbier von Bagdad) (Der Barbier Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra Philharmonia Chorus and Singspiel Abu Hassan The Barber of Baghdad Barber The Watford, and in EMI Abbey Road Studio No.Abbey Watford, in EMI and 1, Abul Hassan, the Barber ...... Oskar Czerwenka Baba Mustapha, the Cadi...... Unger Gerhard Margiana, his daughter ...... Schwarzkopf Elisabeth Bostana, his maid-servant...... Grace Hoffman Nureddin, with Margiana in love ...... Gedda Nicolai The Caliph of Baghdad ...... Prey Hermann www.naxos.com Reissue Producer and Restoration Engineer:Reissue Producer Obert-Thorn Mark F. material source Special thanks to Maynard Bertolet providing for photo:Cover (Private Collection) Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Recorded 11th-12th and 14th-15th May, 1956, in the Town Hall, May, 11th-12th and 14th-15th Recorded 1956,Town in the released in 1957, released When this recording of Peter Cornelius’s sparkling German comedy sparkling German Cornelius’s of Peter When this recording Erich Witte as “a very melodious pair of lovers,Witte as Erich in his revels Michael Bohnen ( briskly” the little opera moving Leopold Ludwig keeps which the cast find in the work – an enjoyment seemingly shared by the orchestra and the the orchestra by shared seemingly – an enjoyment the work which the cast find in is Oskar Czerwenka, in this company chorus… Outstanding the relished who very obviously is on his best Nicolai Gedda comic performance… a splendid in his part humour and gives verbal delightful form,Weber’s brings distinction to [her] part”.The and Schwarzkopf of 1944 recording one-act

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