Berlin RIAS Symphony Orchestra

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...

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...

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...

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...

Dokumente einer Sängerkarriere - Fischer-Dieskau

1 CD / Preiser / 2007-03-01

Works: Albert Lortzing: Der Wildschütz; Zar und Zimmermann; Undine; Otto Nicolai: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor; Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser; Giuseppe Verdi: Un ballo in maschera; I vespri sicili...
Performers: Borst, Heinz; Fehenberger, Lorenz; Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; Frick, Gottlob; Metternich, Josef; Streich, Rita; Trotschel, Elfriede
Conductors: Schuchter, Wilhelm; Busch, Fritz; Rossi, Mario; Fricsay, Ferenc; Schmitz, Paul
Ensemble: ; Berlin Comic Opera Orchestra; Berlin RIAS Symphony Orchestra; Cologne West German Radio Orchestra

There are few other singers whose careers can be so completely traced in recorded documents from the very beginning as can that of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau....continue...

Verdi: Messa da requiem, etc / Jochum, Fricsay, et al

2 CD / Archipel / 2005-09-01

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Requiem Mass; Sacred Pieces (4), for chorus & orchestra
Performers: Cunitz, Maud; Greindl, Josef; Hongen, Elisabeth; Ludwig, Walther
Conductors: Jochum, Eugen; Fricsay, Ferenc
Ensemble: Bavarian Radio Chorus; Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra; Berlin RIAS Chorus; Berlin RIAS Symphony Orchestra

Mozart, Beethoven: Piano Concertos / Fischer, et al

1 CD / Palexa / 2004-09-01

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for Piano no 22 in E flat major, K 482; Ludwig van Beethoven: Concerto for Piano no 3 in C minor, Op. 37
Performers: Fischer, Annie
Conductors: Klemperer, Otto; Fricsay, Ferenc
Ensemble: Berlin RIAS Symphony Orchestra; Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

"Note the tart clarity and chamber-like balances Klemperer elicits from the Concertgebouw Orchestra, especially in the woodwind chording. Fischer is on wonderful form. She always...continue...

Verdi: Quattro Pezzi Sacri; Tchaikovsky / Fricsay, et al

1 CD / Archipel / 2003-04-05

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Sacred Pieces (4), for chorus & orchestra; Otello; Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Concerto for Violin in D major, Op. 35
Performers: Menuhin, Yehudi
Conductors: Fricsay, Ferenc
Ensemble: Berlin RIAS Chorus; Berlin RIAS Symphony Orchestra

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Johanna Blatter

1 CD / Preiser / 2003-02-01

Works: Christoph Willibald Gluck: Iphigénie en Aulide; Richard Wagner: Rienzi; Lohengrin; Tristan und Isolde; Giuseppe Verdi: Il Trovatore; Don Carlos; Aida, opera; Camille Saint-Saëns: Samson e...
Performers: Demuth, Irma; Hufnagel, Elisabeth; Richter, Traute; Schock, Rudolf [Tenor Vocal]; Suthaus, Ludwig
Conductors: Rother, Artur; Blech, Leo; Ludwig, Leopold; Fricsay, Ferenc; Fischer, Karl
Ensemble: Berlin RIAS Symphony Orchestra; Berlin State Opera Orchestra

Walter Gieseking at RIAS - 1950-55 Broadcast Performances

4 CD / Music & Arts / 2002-12-01

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Variations for piano in A major (from last mvt. K. 581) (doubtful), (K. Anh. B 137); Sonata for Piano no 15 in C major ("Sonata semplice") K. 545; Variations (9) on "Lison do...
Performers: Gieseking, Walter
Conductors: Dorati, Antal
Ensemble: Berlin RIAS Symphony Orchestra

Rapture - Opera's Most Heavenly Moments

2 CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 2002-10-08

Works: Vincenzo Bellini: Norma, opera; Jacques Offenbach: Gaîté Parisienne; Alfredo Catalani: La Wally; Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, opera (melodramma) in 1 act; Wolfgang Amadeus Moza...
Performers: Adler, Kurt Herbert; Alagna, Roberto; Ambrosian Singers Of London; Bayreuth Festival Orchestra & Chorus; Berbie, Jane; Berganza, Teresa [Mezzo Soprano Vocals]; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Berlin R...
Conductors: Mackerras, Charles, Sir; Ozawa, Seiji; Adler, Kurt Herbert; Karajan, Herbert von; Böhm, Karl; Kulka, János; Sinopoli, Giuseppe; Ferro, Gabriele; Levine, James; Giovaninetti, Reynald; Maazel...
Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music (UK); Accademia di Santa Cecilia Chorus; Accademia di Santa Cecilia Orchestra; Ambrosian Opera Chorus; Bavarian State Orchestra; Bayreuth Festival Choir; Bayreuth Festival Or...

Personnel: Reri Grist , Montserrat Caballé, Maria Chiara, Renée Fleming, Mirella Freni, Edita Gruberová, Gundula Janowitz, Edith Mathis, Lucia Popp, Joan Sutherland, Kiri Te Kanawa (sop...continue...

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Ludwig Suthaus

1 CD / Preiser / 2001-11-01

Works: Carl Maria von Weber: Der Freischütz, J 277; Richard Wagner: Rienzi; The Flying Dutchman; Tannhäuser; Lohengrin; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Das Rheingold; Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, op...
Performers: Blatter, Johanna; Ducrue, Dr. Hans; Hoffmann, Ludwig; Muller, Maria; Prohaska, Jaro; Suthaus, Ludwig; Vocals], Paul Schoffler [Baritone
Conductors: Görlich, Gustav; Lederer, Felix; Schuler, Johannes; Abendroth, Hermann; Heger, Robert; Rother, Artur; Ludwig, Leopold
Ensemble: ; Bayreuth Festival Orchestra; Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra; Berlin RIAS Symphony Orchestra; Berlin State Opera Orchestra

Violin Adagios

2 CD / Decca / 2001-03-20

Works: Jules Massenet: Meditation (from "Thaïs"); Max Bruch: Concerto for Violin no 1 in G minor, Op. 26; Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for Violin in F major, Op. 8 no 3/RV 293 "L'autunno"; Concerto for 2 ...
Performers: Ashkenazy, Vladimir; Bell, Joshua; Brown, Iona; Chung, Kyung-Wha [Violin]; Coker, Paul; Grumiaux, Arthur [Violin]; Hajdu, Istvan [Piano]; Hasson, Maurice; Josefowicz, Leila; Juillet, Chantal; Kennedy...
Conductors: Bonynge, Richard; Kempe, Rudolf; Marriner, Sir Neville; Gibson, Alexander, Sir; Dohnányi, Christoph von; Zinman, David; Chailly, Riccardo; Haitink, Bernard; Zukerman, Pinchas; ; Davis, Colin; Du...
Ensemble: ; Academy of St. Martin in the Fields; Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Ensemb; Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Berlin RIAS Symphony Orchestra; London Symphony Orchestra; Montreal Symphony O...

Gran Viola - Paganini, Bloch, et al / Bianchi, Canino, et al

1 CD / Dynamic / 1999-11-30

Works: Niccolò Paganini: Sonata for gran viola & orchestra in C minor, MS 70; Concerto for Violin no 2 in B minor ("La campanella"), Op. 7, MS 48; Fritz Kreisler: Liebesleid; Liebesfreud; Pablo de Sara...
Performers: Bianchi, Luigi Alberto; Canino, Bruno
Conductors: Delacôte, Jacques
Ensemble: Berlin RIAS Symphony Orchestra

Yehudi Menuhin - In Memoriam - Tchaikovsky, Beethoven

2 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 1999-07-20

Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Concerto for Violin in D major, Op. 35; Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for violin & piano no 7 in C minor ("Eroica"), Op. 30/2; Rondo for Violin and Piano in G major, WoO 41
Performers: Kempff, Wilhelm; Menuhin, Yehudi
Conductors: Fricsay, Ferenc
Ensemble: Berlin RIAS Symphony Orchestra

Yehudi Menuhin - ennobled in 1993 - was the most brilliant and celebrated violinist of his generation. Born of Russian parents in New York on...continue...

Kodály: Háry-János Suite, etc / Fricsay, Haefliger, et al

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 1999-05-11

Works: Zoltán Kodály: Háry János, suite from the opera for orchestra; Dances of Marosszék; Dances of Galánta; Psalmus Hungaricus, oratorio for tenor, chorus, children's chorus ...
Performers: Leach, John; Vocals], Ernst Haefliger [Tenor
Conductors: Fricsay, Ferenc
Ensemble: Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra; Berlin RIAS Symphony Orchestra

"Fricsay's performances are so crisp and exciting, the orchestra so superbly on its toes...almost unparalled even by the most up-to-date version." -The Penguin Guide...continue...

Verdi: Requiem / Ferenc Fricsay

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 1996-04-09

Performers: Borg, Kim; Krebs, Helmut; Radev, Marianna; Stader, Maria
Conductors: Fricsay, Ferenc
Ensemble: Berlin RIAS Chamber Chorus; Berlin RIAS Symphony Orchestra; St. Hedwig's Cathedral Choir

Penguin Guide
The solo team is first class with the contribution of Kim Borg standing out, as in the live performance
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