George London - George London - The Singers
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Artist: George LondonEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Enhanced, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2001-10-09
Music Label: Decca
Soundtracks:
- Der Fliegende Hollander: Die Frist Ist Um
- Was Duftet Doch Der Flieder
- Der Meistersinger Von Nurnberg: Wahn! Wahn! Uberall Wahn!
- Die Walkure: Leb' Wohl, Du Kuhnes, Herrliches Kind!
- Oh What A Beautiful Mornin'
- Oklahoma!: The Surrey With The Fringe On Top
- South Pacific: This Nearly Was Mine
- Carousel: If I Loved You
- Brigadoon: There But For You Go I
- My Fair Lady: On The Street Where You Live
- Knickerbocker Holiday: September Song
- Very Warm For May: All The Things You Are
- Show Boat: Ol' Man River
Music reviews of George London - The Singers
Music Review: Forgotten glories
Rating: 5 Stars
This is an excellent reissue in CD format of a 1958 Decca LP (the Wagner selections) plus some Broadway musicals material reminiscent of George London's early career.
Although it's difficult to find his name in the album, the conductor of the Wagner arias is no other than the great Hans Knappertsbusch, with the Wiener Philharmoniker. This is one of Kna's rare stereo studio recordings and a remembrance of how great he was, made in the same famous Sofiensaal in Vienna where the Solti Ring was recorded.
I've never heard a voice better suited for the Wagner dramas than London's. It's true at least for myself that he was a cultivator of sound, in love with his fantastic voice, and he played with it like a child with a new toy,sometimes forgetting intellectual interpretative matters so well depictured by the other bass-baritone of similar stature, (many people think even better than London) Hans Hotter. But if you hear London's recordings of Amfortas or Boris you may think otherwise, and I confess I love both his Wotans in Solti's Rheingold and Leinsdorf's Walkure, and admire his somewhat unidiomatic but vocally smashing Scarpia with Renata Tebaldi,and his Golaud in Ansermet's second Pelleas.
The rest of the CD is very sympathetic, but not my cup of tea. For me it would be both shocking and very funny to see a man on a Broadway stage singing "On the street where you live" or "The Impossible dream" with such a tremendous voice as George London's !!!
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