DIE WALKÜRE - 1965 London - Solti
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- DIE WALKÜRE
RICHARD WAGNER
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE COVENT GARDEN
1965 - 23 September
Conductor: GEORG SOLTI (pictured above)
Siegmund: Ernst Kozub
Wotan: David Ward
Hunding: Michael Langdon
Sieglinde: Gwyneth Jones
Brünnhilde: Amy Shuard
Fricka: Josephine Veasey
Gerhilde: Ann Edwards
Ortlinde: Margaret Kingsley
Waltraute: Ann Howard
Schwertleite: Yvonne Minton
Helmwige: Rae Woodland
Siegrune: Noreen Berry
Grimgerde: Maureen Guy
Rossweisse: Elizabeth Bainbridge
What an immense joy to hear this recording. Amy Shuard was client of mine in the late 1960's. ( I coloured her hair.) I recall the wonderful tales she told about this production and the fun they all had. This a marvelous memorial to the golden age of Solti at Covent Garden. Now I can enjoy Amy's great voice again. Thank you for making this available.
I played in this performance. David Ward in my humble opinion is still the very best Wotan ever. May God bless his spirit and soul.
Lionel Alberts really? how was Solti? I’m very curious
Lovely sentiment
Solti definitely delivered better performances as conductor in this and what else I have been able so far to hear of the Covent Garden production with the mighty David, placing his voice perfectly so that when he descends into the lower register there's almost too much, it comes as bass rather than bass-baritone, with a surge because of the extra power the great artist knows how to use. He can be contrasted with some earlier Wotans, where rather than the tenderness of some he sings on the verge of a sob, but always with the Wagnerian flow, like water pouring over lip after lip of a downward sloping stretch of a stream... Not flowery language but a simile -- or as Hans Hotter shouted when he auditioned James Morris, "Nein! Bel canto! Bel canto!" Bellissimo !!! And there is more of that here in Solti than in studio recordings. For good and all.
kozub is the best tenor I have ever heard
A german Corelli 👌
yes, just listen to his incredible radames tempelszene (in a german querschnitt : allmächtger phtah!)
I will@@gerhardrohne2261
Kozub was unbelievable, esp. as Tannhäuser, Florestan, Kaiser (Frau ohne Schatten) and Sigmund. I was lucky to hear and sea him in all these roles, besides Sigmund
You sure were lucky......He was the greatest heldentenor of his era....HANDS DOWN!! I read that he sang the Kaiser just a few days before he died.
Fritz Ullrich How could a singer with so massive a voice could be able to sing also Tamino? (at least in 1955 alongside Elisabeth Grummer)
@@eduardobraivein8496 ....Smart career planning based on excellent vocal base and teachers! Baritone Base, development into the Helden-Fach of Wagner. Also his colleague Hans Hopf started as Tamino, and what a Tristan he was until old age!! Same principle.
Today so called Tenor Stars are called „best Siegmund“ etc....A regrettable lack of knowledge. They haven’t heard Ernst Kozub e.g.
RDS
Kozub was supposed to be the Siegfried for the Solti/Culshaw Decca recordings of Der Ring des Nibelungen, but was very unprepared, so they turned to Windgassen instead.
@@SuperMiguelito2000 Yes, I saw that in discussions of the Solti recordings. What do you think? One great thing about the Solti recordings, it seems that the singers respected each other and were getting along. There is a video of a tea break which is beautiful to see! But both DFD and Frick were smoking!!!
This is one of the best rendition i heard, and i heard a lot.
what a Siegmund 😍😍😍😍😍
What an amazing group of singers. Quality all the way through. You only have to look at the list of Valkyries to see it was gold plated and on the top line the wonderful Rae Woodland as Helmwige. Solti and Covent Garden at its best.
I had Gwyneth Jones autograph some 37 years ago from Cardiff Wales.
Many thanks for this -- a fascinating contrast to his studio recording. Especially good to hear Ward and Kozub, and Shuard at something like her best,
I like it, this interpretation is a historical milestone!
Outstanding 👌
Wow, Gwyneth Jones is really lovely and womanly here as Sieglinde :)
I like her more as Brunhilde.She has such a powerful and clearest voice.
Kozub was the singer Solti chose for his London Records version of Siegfried. But he didn't learn it, so they ended up with Windgassen.
Thank God!
George Solti understood Wanger and the power of his music. Great recording! Thanks for posting!
....Todays protagonists of Siegmund have little in common with Ernst Kozub. A perfectly balanced Wagner-voice in every register. Certainly one of the greatest, far away from the media made would be stars audiences tend to applaud. It is about Wagner and the appropriate voice. Kozub had it all!
Mi piace moltissimo
So good to hear Mike Langdon as just about the most impressive Hunding apart from Frick and Greindl. Why he didn't sing more at the Garden is a mystery. But a bigger one is why he never sang at Bayreuth. Someone somewhere must have a tape of one of his rare performances as Hagen.
I read an interview with him, in which he said that he was afraid to sing Pogner in MEISTERSINGER, he was afraid he would crack on the high-F at the end of the big aria.
Gwyneth Jones in her early prime plus the strong, sonorous & Ill fated Ernest Kozub who should have flourished in this repertoire but had an unfortunate experience trying to learn SIegfried. Health problems eventually took their toll & he passed away in 1971.
Shuard was quite a strong Brünnhilde & gave Nilsson some serious competition. Will check out Langdon & Ward later when time permits.
SOLTI GAVE THE BEST VERSION OF THEM ALL, PERIOD. EVERYTHING WAS AUTHENTIC. EVERYTHING WAS REAL. THERE WERE NO SHORT-CUTS. HE EVEN USED LIVE HORSES ON THE SET.
Very good singing in general.
Like fresh breeze from the past…
Wagner (or any singing) doesn’t sound like this nowadays.
Maybe because where the microphone(es) is, but it sounds like Sieglinde has a bigger voice than Brünnhilde in the 3 act.
Is this part of a complete ring?
Very pleasantly surprised by this recording. The only familiar names to me are David Ward, Gwyneth Jones, and Amy Schuard. But everyone sounds wonderful. My big question though is - is this tape pitched a half or full-tone under?
I checked this recording against my original just in case something with UA-cam is slowing down the recording and lowering pitch, and it is identical. I agree that it has the feeling of being underpitched, but I tested the pitch of the recording and it is exactly correct, within a few cents here and there depending on singer accuracy. I haven't checked every minute of it, so perhaps something distorts at some particular point in the recording. Do you have an instance you can point to where the pitch is under? Thanks for your comment.
@@ozitenor is this part of a complete RING cycle?
@@ozitenor thank you for this - what is your original? Sounds like LPs sometimes.
In British-based studio recordings, you can usually find small parts played by Josephine Veasey, Elisabeth Bainbridge, Anne Edwards. Yvonne Minton had a decent international career in the '70s and '80s. Veasey also (Adalgisa to Caballe's Orange "Norma,". Didon in Colin Davis' "Les Troyens").
@@edwardamosbrandwein3583 I wouldn't know but there is actually a "Götterdämmerung" ( October the 16th ): Windgassen, Shuard, Frick, John Shaw ( Gunther ), Heather Harper ( Gutrune ), Gwyneth Jones ( 3th Norn ), Josephine Veasey ( Waltraute )... Solti ( conductor ).