Richard Strauss: Salome [Remastered]
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Composer: Richard StraussConductor: Georg Solti
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Performer: Aron Gestner
Performer: Birgit Nilsson
Performer: Eberhard W?chter
Performer: Gerhard Stolze
Performer: Grace Hoffmann
Performer: Heinz Holecek
Performer: Josephine Veasey
Performer: Kurt Equiluz
Performer: Liselotte Maikl
Performer: Max Proebstl
Performer: Nigel Douglas
Performer: Paul Kuen
Performer: Stefan Schwer
Performer: Theodor Kirschbichler
Performer: Tom Krause
Performer: Waldemar Kmentt
Performer: Zenon Kosnowski
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2006-06-13
Music Label: Decca
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Wie sch?n ist die Prinzessin Salome heute Nacht!
- Nach mir wird Einer kommen
- Ich will nicht bleiben
- Siehe, der Herr ist gekommen
- Jauchze nicht, du Land Pal?stina
- Du wirst das f?r mich tun
- Wo ist er, dessen S?ndenbecher jetzt voll ist?
- Jokanann, ich bin verliebt in deinen Leib
- Wird dir nicht bange, Tochter der Herodias?
- Wo ist Salome?
- Es ist kalt hier
- Salome, komm, trink Wein mit mir
- Sieh, die Zeit ist gekommen
- Wahrhaftig, Herr, es w?re besser
- Siehe, der Tag ist n?he
- Eine Menge Menschen wird sich gegen sie sammeln
- Tanz f?r mich, Salome
- Salomes Tanz
- Ah! Herrlich! Wundervoll
- Still, sprich nicht zu mir!
- Salome, bedenk, was du tun willst
- Man soll ihr geben, was sie verlangt!
- Es ist kein Lau zu vernehmen
- Ah! Du wolltest mich nicht deinen Mund k?ssen lassen, Jokanann!
- Sie ist ein Ungeheuer, deine Tochter
- Ah! Ich habe deinen Mund gek?sst
Free Music Notes for Richard Strauss: Salome [Remastered]
Free Music Review: THE PERFECT SALOME
Hit: 5 Stars
ABOUT THE ALBUM: Richard Strauss, Salome, Recorded At The Sofiensaal, Vienna, October, 1961, Released On LP, 1962 By Decca Record Company Limited, London, England, Released As A Remastered 2-CD Set, Decca Limited. Picture: Promotional Photo of Birgit Nilsson as Salome.
CAST: birgit Nilsson, soprano (Salome) Eberhard Wachter, baritone (Jochanaan), Gerhard Stolze, baritone, (Herod Tetrach) Grace Hoffmann, mezzo soprano (Herodias, wife of Herod) Josephine Veasey, mezzo soprano (Herodias' page) Aron Gestner (Narraboth) Kurt Equiluz (Jewish Councelor), Max Proebstl (Jewish Counselor) Nigel Douglas (page) Theodor Kirschbichler (Jewish Councelor) Zenon Kosnowski (Jewish councelor) Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Georg Solti.
SOLTI'S SALOME
What's not to like about Birgit Nilsson's classic recording of Salome ?
Everyone who has heard this recording, originally issued as an LP in 1962 by Decca and re-released as a CD sing its praises. It is not only the strongest Salome in terms of musicality, but also in terms of dramatic impact, theatricality and masterful singing by the entire cast. This was a recording made very early in Birgit Nilsson's career, not long after her triumphant Metropolitan Opera debut as Isolde in Wagner's Tristan in 1959. Her legacy on record followed immediately and her conductor of choice was Sir Georg Solti conducting her favorite orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic, one of the world's finest. The studio recordings made at the Sofiensaal in Vienna, Austria became legendary and the Birgit Nilsson/Georg Solti partnership produced masterpieces after masterpiece (Tristan und Isolde and the first studio Wagner Ring Des Nibelungen). Richard Strauss' score to Salome was innovative and modern, with a plethora of themes and motifs, dissonant chords, dramatic fortissimis and eerie pianissimis. Besides all the powerful punches it packs, there are melodies full of sweet lyricism and beauty, with a passionate and exotic flair. The score calls for a vast orchestra, even larger than Wagner orchestras, and a superior conductor like Georg Solti, brought out all the driven intensity and sensational, overwhelming melodrama that is inherent in Salome. Not only that, he brings about the monstrosity, brutality and insanity so evident in the music for King Herod and Salome's final scenes. Dramatic touches abound early on, such as the scene in which Herod is holding court and fears there is a powerful wind howling and threatening to ruin him. The orchestra really becomes a strong wind!! The Vienna Philharmonic knew this score. Strauss' music is Austrian/Viennese, and though the more thunderous moments are the real attractive force in this recording, the orchestra under Solti's baton produces ornate melodies that capture the strange beauty and lilting, dance-like melodies that surround certain moments, like the Dance of the Seven Veils and prior to that Salome's scenes with Jochanaan that capture her blossoming sexuality and first pangs of love. Subsequent recordings were made to top this one, and although many critics rave about Van Karajan's late 70's Salzburg Festival recording with Hildegard Behrens, few conductors could truly deliver the goods like Solti. Here, none of his slow pacing is found. It is a dramatic and fast-moving Salome from start to finish, explosive, sexual, electrifying, shocking, sensational and even the slightest bit romantic. This is the perfect Salome, and just as it should sound.
BIRGIT NILSSON
Birgit Nilsson's Salome is a little on the controversial side because she came after Ljuba Welitsch's inspired performances from decades earlier at the Met. Welitsch had a powerful voice that could produce eerie sounds for the final scene but it was a voice that was young-sounding and so appropriate to the teenager Salome character that to this date, critics hail her as the reigning interpretor of the role. Nilsson was in her prime and in great voice for this recording but physically and vocally she does not convince as the young princess Salome. For me, this is not a serious problem. The voice is good, note-for-note, with a shining and blazing high register so full of Nordic crystals and yet also capable of sounding darker and scarier (like when she insists "Bring me the head of John the Baptist"/"Gibe mich der kopf des Jochanaan). And, truth be told, Nilsson had a flexible voice, even more so at this early phase of her career, so that she was able to sound very youthful and airy. When I first heard her as she enters the courtyard where Herod has imprisoned Jochanaan in a cistern, and she has lines with Narraboth, she sounds absolutely young! I didn't recognized her. It was a sweet, seductive, princess-like voice and she would never again use this kind of voice in latter recordings, not even as Isolde Nilsson was fully in character and knew just how to bring out all the layers in Salome's nature. Notice for instance the scene after her Dance when Herod first asks her what she would like on a silver platter. "Give me on a silver platter....the head of Jon the Baptist". She says this using that same girlish, sweet voice, as if what she had just asked for was nothing big or serious, a little girl asking for a toy!! The result is devilish! But note, too, how she changes her voice and darkens it when Herod does not obey her immediately and delays in bringing her the head. She sounds as if she has gone mad (her breathing is fast and you can hear it on this recording) and she is practically screaming for blood. Nilsson knew how to sing a very masterful Salome and for me, there is no greater Salome. The thing is, that even if singers like Ljuba Welitsch, Cheryl Studer and Hildegard Behrens can manage to sound young and petulant, they totally destroy the powerful dramatic impact that the voice ought to have in the more dramatic moments when Salome has gone nuts with her desire for John's head. Nilsson was able to sing with unrivaled mastership, her voice cutting through and rising above the jungle of Strauss' music, and maintaining a dramatic integrity all the way.
GERHARD STOLZE/GRACE HOFFMANN/EBERHARD WACHTER
Gerhard Stolze's Herod takes the crown as far as singing it with dramatic insight. His voice is an acquired taste. It is not a beautiful voice. He had success singing mostly "spoken" style singing, his German voice oozing with mannerisms and theatricality. For the role of Herod, this is perfect. Stolze's Herod packs a powerful punch. He is mad, he is lustful (so lustful that it's scary) and while he is overacting, it's necessary for the drama. And truth be told, Stolze had the right kind of voice with its big ugly baritone power. Grace Hoffmann's mezzo soprano is very mannered and operatic. Herodias is not ugly sounding or especially dramatic. She didn't sound angry, bitchy or even cold, as Herodias is supposed to sound. The evil queen has probably stopped sleeping with Herod and is a bitchy ice-queen compared to the more passionate Salome, to whom she has lost. Herod really would prefer to mate with Salome, his own stepdaughter. Hoffmans' voice is beautiful but truthfully, it did not sound appropriate to her character. Eberhard Wachter's Jochanaan is beautifully sung, even if not especially brilliant like certain baritones who would take on the part later on. It is a voice that is strong, spiritual and lyrical. The scenes between him and Salome find him in a very even voice, and he is a total contrast to Stolze's crazy Herod and the equally crazy Salome. In fact, Wachter's peaceful voice is so in character. He is a saint among Satanists. And we can truly hear that. It is also to his credit that he could portray this role at the same time he had recorded the classic Giulini Don Giovanni with Joan Sutherland and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. Wachter had a very flexible instrument and was essentially a high baritone, and his Jochanaan appears to be taking the "peaceful, calm saint" approach.
Without a doubt in my mind, there is no greater Salome. Decca has remastered this so the sound is even better and clearer. There are 2 versions of this same recording, the other being a little inferior in quality (sounding like it was taken from a library collection of CDs). This one is the one to take home. Birgit Nilsson triumphs as Salome as no other soprano ever has. Solti conducts an incredible score, finally resurrected from opium sleep to wild theatricality thanks to the fine musicianship of the Vienna Philharmonic.
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