111014-15 bk Salome EU 16/12/2004 11:53am Page 12 5 Herod finds Salome’s actions monstrous, but 6 Salome is heard; she has kissed the mouth of Herodias thinks she has done well, a remark worthy, Jochanaan, a bitter taste on his lips, a taste of blood Herod says, of his brother’s incestuous wife. Something perhaps, yet tasting perhaps of love, since they say love RICHARD STRAUSS bad will happen, and he calls on Herodias to go in with has a bitter taste. The moon shines out, casting light on him, as he starts to be afraid. The moon is hidden and Salome, as the voice of Herod commands her death. the stars, and Herod bids his servants put out the Soldiers rush in and crush her under their shields. torches. Salome Keith Anderson NS KR ME AU LE S C S 1 954 Recording Producer’s Note The transfer of the complete opera was made from British LP pressings. The original master tape contains some Christel Goltz • Julius Patzak electronic clicks, grittiness and occasional overload distortion, which can also be heard on Decca’s own CD transfer. In the appendix, the Destinn sides were taken from a mid-1930s Victor re-pressing for IRCC, while the Margareta Kenney • Hans Braun Ljungberg and Lawrence recordings were also transferred from quiet, mid- to late-30s U.S. Victors. The Welitsch Anton Dermota was taken from a British LP pressing, and I have preceded it with a rare Reiner Boston appearance from a vinyl V-Disc. Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Mark Obert-Thorn Clemens Krauss 8.111014-15 12 111014-15 bk Salome EU 16/12/2004 11:53am Page 2 Great Opera Recordings his head, that burns like fire, and can hardly breathe. tiger, as pink as the eyes of wood-pigeons and as green Salome agrees to dance for him, as the voice of as the eyes of cats, opals that sparkle with fire, as cold Jochanaan asks who it is that comes from Edom, with as ice. All this will he give her, with chrysolites and Richard raiment stained scarlet, and Herodias still opposes her beryls and chrysoprases and rubies, and he continues to daughter. list the jewels and gifts that shall be hers. In answer STRAUSS Salome replies with increased vehemence, demanding (1864 – 1949) ( Salome dances her Dance of the Seven Veils, the head of Jochanaan. eventually pausing by Jochanaan’s prison, and then Salome falling at Herod’s feet. 2 Herod gives way, sinking back onto his chair; Music drama in one act after Oscar Wilde’s poem of the same name Salome is her mother’s child. Herodias takes the ring of German text by Hedwig Lachmann ) Herod is delighted and calls Salome to him, ready death from the Tetrarch’s hand and gives it to a soldier, to grant whatever she wishes. She demands on a silver who takes it at once to the executioner. Herod calls out, charger what has been promised, the head of Jochanaan. asking who has taken his ring, as the executioner Salome . Christel Goltz (soprano) Herod demurs, but Herodias applauds her daughter’s approaches the cistern where Jochanaan is imprisoned. Herod Antipas . Julius Patzak (tenor) request. Salome tells him that her request is her own, Herod sees the wine gone from his cup, and fears what Herodias . Margareta Kenney (mezzo-soprano) not her mother’s, and that Herod should keep his oath. may happen. Jochanaan . Hans Braun (baritone) He assures her that he would give her up to half his Narraboth . Anton Dermota (tenor) kingdom, but that what she asks is not his to give. 3 Salome listens above, hearing no sound from Page of Herodias . Else Schürhoff (mezzo-soprano) Salome insists, while Herod still denies her. He tells Jochanaan, who surely should cry out. She calls on the First Jew . Rudolf Christ (tenor) Herodias that he is not speaking to her, but she approves executioner to strike, and hears only the sound of the Second Jew . Hugo Meyer-Welfung (tenor) of Salome’s request. falling sword, the executioner fearing to carry out his Third Jew . Kurt Preger (tenor) task. She calls to the page, telling him to order the Fourth Jew . Murray Dickie (tenor) ¡ Herod bids Herodias be quiet, and begs Salome not soldiers to bring her what she wanted; she calls on the Fifth Jew . Franz Bierbach (bass) to insist on her request; the head severed from a man’s Tetrarch to order the soldiers to bring her what she First Nazarene . Ludwig Weber (bass) body is not a pretty sight, but he will give her a great wants. The arm of the executioner is seen stretching up Second Nazarene . Harald Pröglhöf (tenor) emerald, the finest in the world. Salome continues to from the cistern, bearing the head of Jochanaan on a First Soldier . .Walter Berry (bass) demand the head of Jochanaan, and Herod calls for silver shield. She seizes it. Second Soldier . Herbert Alsen (bass) wine, telling her to think what she is asking; he will give A Cappadocian . Ljubomir Pantscheff (baritone) her his white peacocks, for no other king has such birds. 4 Salome now would kiss the mouth refused her A Slave . Hermann Gallos (tenor) She demands again the head of Jochanaan, and before, and bite it with her teeth, like a ripe fruit; she Herodias adds her approval, to be silenced by her will kiss him, as she said. Why are his eyes, that were so Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra husband. terrible, shut; why does he not look at her; is he afraid? Clemens Krauss, Conductor He spoke bad words to her, the daughter of Herodias, a CD 2 princess, but now she is alive and he is dead, and can do Recorded 15th to 21st March 1954 in the Musikvereinsaal, Vienna what she likes with his head, throw it to the dogs, to the First issued as Decca LXT 2863 and 2864 1 Herod tells Salome to think what she is doing; birds; his body was beautiful like a column of ivory set perhaps the man has been sent by God, a holy man, and on silver, a garden full of doves and silver lilies, nothing Reissue Producer and Restoration Engineer: Mark Obert-Thorn surely she would not want him to commit a sin. Salome in the world so white as his body, so black as his hair, so Special thanks to Lawrence F. Holdridge and Ray Edwards again calls for the head of Jochanaan. He tells her that red as his mouth. If he had looked at her, he would have he has jewels that her mother has never seen, a collar of loved her. pearls set in four rows, topazes yellow as the eyes of the 8.111014-15 2 11 8.111014-15 111014-15 bk Salome EU 16/12/2004 11:53am Page 10 she hears her daughter’s answer. Herodias thinks world’. Herod asks what this last can mean, and a CD 1 67:37 @ Es ist kalt hier? 1:36 Salome does right. Herod calls for fruit, and tells Nazarene tells him that the Messiah has come and (Herod, Herodias) Salome to eat with him, wanting to see the marks of her everywhere works miracles, turning water into wine at a Scene 1 little white teeth in the fruit and urging her to eat. She wedding and healing two lepers in Capernaum; through 1 Wie schön ist die Prinzessin Salome 2:42 # Salome, komm, trink Wein mit mir 2:42 tells him she is not hungry, and Herod turns again to touching them, a second Nazarene adds. He has healed (Narraboth, Page, Soldiers) (Herod, Salome, Herodias) Herodias, who tells him that she and her daughter are of the blind, the first Nazarene continues, and been seen royal blood, while his father was a camel driver, a thief talking with angels on a mountain; he brought to life 2 Nach mir wird Einer kommen 2:35 $ Sieh, die Zeit ist gekommen 0:46 and a robber. He tells Salome to come to him, to sit on again the daughter of Jairus; he can waken the dead. (Jochanaan, Soldiers, A Cappadocian) (Jochanaan, Herodias, Herod) the throne of her mother, but Salome is not tired. Herod Herod forbids waking the dead, and asks where this calls for something, but then forgets what he wants. man is. A Nazarene tells him that he is hard to find, but Scene 2 % Wahrhaftig, Herr, es ware besser 3:00 is in Samaria. Another interrupts to say that he is now 3 Ich will nicht bleiben 1:43 (Jews, Herod, Herodias, First Nazarene) $ The voice of Jochanaan is heard: ‘Lo! The time is near Jerusalem. The voice of Jochanaan is heard (Salome, Page) come! The day of which I spoke!’ Herodias asks for the denouncing the daughter of Babylon. ^ Siehe, der Tag ist nähe 2:43 prophet to be silenced, but Herod tells her that he has 4 Siehe, der Herr ist gekommen 1:36 (Jochanaan, Herod, Nazarenes, Second Jew, said nothing against her, and is, besides, a great prophet. & ‘Let a multitude of men gather against her’, he says, (Jochanaan, Salome, Soldiers, Page) Herodias) She does not believe in prophets, but accuses her ‘let people take stones and stone her. Let the war husband of being afraid of Jochanaan. Herod fears no captains pierce her with their swords, let them crush her 5 Jauchze nicht, du Land Palästina 2:25 & Eine Menge Menschen 2:22 one, but she asks him, then, why he does not hand the beneath their shields’. Herodias would have him (Jochanaan, Salome, Soldiers, Page) (Jochanaan, Herodias, Herod) man over to the Jews.