Lohengrin

Lohengrin

Lohengrin
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Performer: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Composer: Richard Wagner
Conductor: Rudolf Kempe
Performer: Christa Ludwig
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Performer: Elisabeth Grummer
Performer: Jess Thomas
Performer: Gottlob Frick
Performer: Otto Wiener
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-08-15
Music Label: EMI Classics
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Prelude
  2. Act 1. Scene 1.: "H?rt! Grafen, Edle, Freie von Brabant!"
  3. Act 1. Scene 1.: "Dank, K?nig, dir, da? du zu richten kamst!"
  4. Act 1. Scene 1.: "Welch F?rchterliche Klage sprichst du aus!"
  5. Act 1. Scene 2.: "Seht hin! Sie naht, die hart Beklagte!"
  6. Act 1. Scene 2.: "Einsam in tr?ben Tagen"
  7. Act 1. Scene 2.: "Friedrich, du ehrenwerter Mann"
  8. Act 1. Scene 2.: "Des Ritters will ich wahren"
  9. Act 1. Scene 2.: "Wer hier im Gotteskampf zu streiten kam"/ Act 1. Scene 3.: "Gegr??t! Sei gegr??t,
  10. Act 1. Scene 3.: "Nun sei bedankt, mein lieber Schwan!"
  11. Act 1. Scene 3.: "Heil K?nig Heinrich!"
  12. Act 1. Scene 3.: "Wenn ich im Kampfe f?r dich siege"
  13. Act 1. Scene 3.: "Nun h?rt! Euch, Volk und Edlen, mach' ich kund"
  14. Act 1. Scene 3.: "Nun h?ret mich und achtet wohl"
  15. Act 1. Scene 3.: "Mein Herr und Gott, nun ruf' ich dich"
  16. Act 1. Scene 3.: "Durch Gottes Sieg ist jetzt dein Leben mein"
  17. Act 2. Scene 1.: Introduction
  18. Act 2. Scene 1.: "Erhebe dich, Genossin meiner Schmach!"
Music CD 2
  1. Act 2. Scene 1.: "Was macht dich in so wilder Klage doch vergehn?"
  2. Act 2. Scene 1.: "Du wilde Seherin! Wie willst du doch"
  3. Act 2. Scene 1.: "Der Rache Werk sei nun beschworen"
  4. Act 2. Scene 2.: "Euch L?ften, die mein Klagen"
  5. Act 2. Scene 2.: "Elsa!... Wer ruft?"
  6. Act 2. Scene 2.: "Entweihte G?tter! Helft jetzt meiner Rache"
  7. Act 2. Scene 2.: "Ortrud, wo bist du?"
  8. Act 2. Scene 2.: "Du ?rmste kannst wohl nie ermessen"
  9. Act 2. Scene 2.: "So zieht das Unheil in dies Haus!"
  10. Act 2. Scene 3.: Morning Song / "In Fr?h'n versammelt uns der Ruf"
  11. Act 2. Scene 3.: "Nun h?rt, dem Lande will er uns entf?hren!"
  12. Act 2. Scene 4.: Procession/ "Gesegnet soll sie schreiten"
  13. Act 2. Scene 4.: "Zur?ck, Elsa! Nicht langer will ich dulden"
  14. Act 2. Scene 5.: "Heil! Heil dem K?nig!"
  15. Act 2. Scene 5.: "O K?nig! Trugbet?rte F?rsten!"
  16. Act 2. Scene 5.: "Welch ein Geheimnis mu? der Held bewahren?"
  17. Act 2. Scene 5.: "Mein Held! Entgegne k?hn dem Ungetreuen!"
  18. Act 2. Scene 5.: "Mein Held! Entgegne k?hn dem Ungetreuen!"
Music CD 3
  1. Act 3.: Prelude
  2. Act 3. Scene 1.: "Treulich gef?hrt ziehet dahin"
  3. Act 3. Scene 2.: "Das s??e Lied verhallt; wir sind allein"
  4. Act 3. Scene 2.: "Wie hehr erkenn' ich unsrer Liebe Wesen!"
  5. Act 3. Scene 2.: "Atmest du nicht mit mir die s??en D?fte?"
  6. Act 3. Scene 2.: "Ach! K?nnt' ich deiner wert erscheinen"
  7. Act 3. Scene 2.: "H?chstes Vertraun hast du mir schon zu danken"
  8. Act 3. Scene 2.: "Hikf Gott, was mu? ich H?ren!"
  9. Act 3. Scene 2.: "H?test du nichts?"
  10. Act 3. Scene 2.: "Tragt den Erschlagnen vor des K?nigs Gericht!"
  11. Act 3. Scene 3.: Sunrise/ "Heil K?nig Heinrich!"
  12. Act 3. Scene 3.: "Mein Herr und K?nig, la? dir melden"
  13. Act 3. Scene 3.: "In fernem Land"
  14. Act 3. Scene 3.: "Mir Schwankt der Boden!"
  15. Act 3. Scene 3.: "O bleib, und zieh uns nicht von dannen!"
  16. Act 3. Scene 3.: "Mein lieber Schwan!"
  17. Act 3. Scene 3.: "Weh! Weh! Du edler, holder Mann!"

Music reviews of Lohengrin

Music Review: THIS RECORDING DESERVES TO BE CONSIDERED ONE OF THE GREATEST OF THE 20TH CENTURY
Rating: 5 Stars

This recording of Lohengrin deserves not only 5 stars but 10. It is the best performance of this opera ever recorded. The playing of the VPO under Kempe is superb specially the strings. The chorus is also first rate. But it is the cast of singers that makes the difference. Both Gottlob Frick as the King and Otto Wiener as the Herald are superb. Jess Thomas is not one of my favorite singers, but here he has perhaps his best performance, now incisive, now romantic and passionate. In my opinion, he is much better than Placido Domingo for Solti, for he can control his huge voice much better according to the demands of each scene, whereas Domingo sounds a little bit gritty in his first performance of the character. He would sing Lohengrin much more satisfactorily some years later for Abbado in the Vienna Opera. Grummer was the perfect choice for Elsa; she conveys the frailty of the character as no other singer. But it is the couple of villains that steal the show. Fischer Dieskau and Christa Ludwig are among the greatest singers of the 20th century and here both are at their best. They simply set the standards for their roles, and whenever one listens to any performance of Lohengrin, it is inevitable that the singing and acting of the singers who play Ortrud and Telramund are judged taking the ones of Ludwig and Fischer Dieskau as the parameter. Sound quality is excellent, but, of course, it cannot match Solti's album, recorded in 1985. But this performance is worth every cent you pay for the CDs.

Description of Lohengrin

This celebrated 1964 recording of Lohengrin with Rudolf Kempe and the Vienna State Opera Orchestra still stands the test of time: it's a terrifically exciting performance. Kempe is a superb draftsman, and he keeps the orchestra lively, exuberant, but never strident. Pride of place must be given to the soloists: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau is a riveting Friedrich, Jess Thomas a dynamic Lohengrin, and Elisabeth Grummer a most moving Elsa. --Joshua Cody

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