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Edition Ferenc Fricsay Vol 9 - Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor

2 CD / Audite / 2008-12-10

Works: Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Performers: Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; Haefliger, Ernst; Schlott, Theodor; Stader, Maria; Van Dijk, Cornelis; Wagner, Sieglinde; Wilhelm, Horst
Conductors: ; Fricsay, Ferenc
Ensemble: Berlin RIAS Chamber Chorus; Berlin RIAS Symphony Orchestra

Fricsay recorded 'Lucia di Lammermoor' in 1953 with a dream team of soloists. Maria Stader, Ernst Haefliger and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau shared Fricsay's stylistic sensitivity, his...continue...

Gershwin: Porgy and Bess / Smallens, Price, Warfield, Calloway, et al

2 CD / Audite / 2008-11-19

Works: George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
Performers: Calloway, Cab; Price, Leontyne; Warfield, William
Conductors: Smallens, Alexander
Ensemble: Berlin RIAS Symphony Orchestra

"The soloists are fabulous and their vivid characterizations are immediately engaging. Cab Calloway was a legendary Sportin' Life, and the originality and eccentricity of this...continue...

Tchaikovsky, Mozart: Violin Concertos; Bach: Chaconne BWV 1004 / Yehudi Menuhin, et al

1 CD / Audite / 2008-11-19

Works: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Concerto for Violin in D major, Op. 35; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for Violin no 4 in D major, K 218; Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita for Violin solo no 2 in D minor, ...
Performers: Menuhin, Yehudi
Conductors: Fricsay, Ferenc; Böhm, Karl
Ensemble: Berlin RIAS Symphony Orchestra

This CD offers an insight into Menuhin's extensive repertoire and his ideals in musical interpretation. His take on Tchaikovsky's 'Violin Concerto' is structurally clear and...continue...

Edition Ferenc Fricsay Vol 8 - Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail K 384

2 CD / Audite / 2008-10-29

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio), opera, K. 384
Performers: Barabas, Sari; Dermota, Anton; Greindl, Josef; Krebs, Helmut; Streich, Rita
Conductors: ; Fricsay, Ferenc
Ensemble: Berlin RIAS Chamber Chorus; Berlin RIAS Symphony Orchestra

Ferenc Fricsay's first complete recording of an opera by Mozart was made in December 1949. The recording reveals the characteristics of Fricsay's Mozart interpretation with...continue...

Edition Ferenc Fricsay Vol 6 - Beethoven: Symphonies, Leonore Overture no 3

1 CD / Audite / 2008-09-17

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no 7 in A major, Op. 92; Symphony no 8 in F major, Op. 93; Leonore Overture no 3 in C major, Op. 72a
Conductors: Fricsay, Ferenc
Ensemble: Berlin RIAS Symphony Orchestra

In 1949, Ferenc Fricsay formed the RIAS Symphony Orchestra into an elite ensemble of extraordinary precision and radiance. The RIAS recordings of Beethoven's Seventh and...continue...

Karl Böhm Vol 6 - Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, Tod und Verklärung

1 CD / Audite / 2008-08-06

Works: Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40; Tod und Verklärung, Op. 24
Conductors: Böhm, Karl
Ensemble: Berlin RIAS Symphony Orchestra

Karl Bohm made these recordings with the RIAS Symphony Orchestra in the years just after Strauss' death. Bohm, who had an intimate working relationship with...continue...

Edition Ferenc Fricsay Vol 4 - Tchaikovsky, Liszt: Piano Concerti / Fricsay, Cherkassy, et al

1 CD / Audite / 2008-06-25

Works: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Concerto for Piano no 2 in G major, Op. 44; Franz Liszt: Concerto for Piano no 1 in E flat major, S 124
Performers: Cherkassky, Shura
Conductors: Fricsay, Ferenc
Ensemble: Berlin RIAS Symphony Orchestra

One line and one studio recording by Shura Cherkassy from the 1950s with Ferenc Fricsay as a congenial partner, presenting the pianist at the height...continue...

Verdi: Rigoletto / Ferenc Fricsay, et al

2 CD / Audite / 2007-11-01

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto
Performers: Clam, Leopold; Hoppe, Fritz; Husch, Otto; Lang, Wilhelm; Menz, Silvia; Metternich, Josef; Peters, Ralf; Schock, Rudolf [Tenor Vocal]; Streich, Rita
Conductors: Fricsay, Ferenc
Ensemble: Berlin RIAS Symphony Orchestra

Audite's laudable series devoted to Ferenc Fricsay continues with the work which started his career as an opera conductor. He first led a performance in...continue...