Genius- greatest music written. None surpasses Wagner for how he charged the world of music into a life force. Hans Hotter is the definitive Wotan, majestic and proud, wise and loving
"None surpasses Wagner for how he charged the world of music into a life force"... Richard Allen, you express it in beautiful words worthy of Wagner's poetry!
I first met Hans Hotter when I was about 14 years old. We used to pay very little for "standing only" tickets in the gods. I know, that he had some difficulty with the voice for a relatively short time, but he was THE WOTAN of his time. The tears still try to well up when .i listen to him.
I grew up on the 1965 version and loved it for what it was. The surprise here is not that the great voice itself is in so much better shape but rather the revelation is in the overwhelming expressivity of his interpretation. This is a performance that would melt a heart of stone.
Unbelievable performance of the Farewell by the unforgettable Hans Hotter, truly the most refined Wotan of all time. Utterly beautiful singing, lyrically done, with total impact. I was moved to tears. Thank you for posting!
from the balcony circle in San Francisco, Wotan Thomas Stewart didn't have the vocal force of Hotter, but this girl cried: after all, it is grand and mythical, the judgement of Brunhilde. You are not the same as other humans, if you have experienced it.
Hotter is great, but the true glory of this recording is surely Knappertsbusch's inspired conducting. He truly sets the orchestra on fire. I wonder how Brünnhilde can get any sleep after this rousing performance!
Precisely.....The balance is sensational. I would trust Knapper with my life, and this is what Artists do all the time when they get up in front of an audience. This is simply gorgeous, and I have played enough Cycles to know.
Wow! Yes! With Wagner, tempo is everything, and this is amazing! He lets all the gravitas boom without letting go of the bright momentum. I heard Edo de Waart's Ring in San Francisco, and have always felt that as the standard, but this guy swings!
Der unvergessliche Hans Hotter. Nicht nur dass er wunderbar sang, schon seine Imposante Gestalt. Wie er sich an der Sperspitze anhielt. Er war wirklich ein Gott! Mein Gott, was waren das damals für Vorstellungen. So etwas sieht und hört man heute leider nicht mehr!!!
jackal59: It is available on many labels, inexpensive (GALA) to very expensive (PRISTINE AUDIO) with several in between (MUSIC AND ARTS.). But the best of the lot, with restored sound, commentary, libretto is on the TESTAMENT label which accessed the tapes that DECCA planned to release but decided against doing robbing people of the opportunity to hear Astrid Varnay in her prime. Get the entire cycle on TESTAMENT conducted by Keilberth (1955) and this one with Kna (1956) on Orfeo. Then Solti, Karajan etc.
Knappertsbusch's tempi feel rapid, after the trend for dragging everything out in the "slow = meaningful" fashion... It's great to hear so much ENERGY, as well as beauty.
And yet he lets the deep sound resound even as he drives it through. I love, love it! For just a little fast, Ormondy. For, will you live long enough, Furtwangler. Did Wagner himself have a clue, that the twitch of a baton, the very hearbeat of any given fool down through the decades would lift up or grind down the soul of an audience?
Kna paces it perfectly for him to muster every bit of force he can put into each part of the last phrase. In most recordings you hear the singer has to clip some parts of it to gather breath along the way. Exceptional conducting as well as singing.
The Best, i have heard. I agree with all comments written. The beauty and force given by both, the conducter and the singer is so beautiful that I remain breath less. Thanks for given part and the information for CD .
Two words: "der Gott." Only Hans Hotter sang with the the depth of meaning that goes right to the soul. Love and grief combined. I tear up every time I hear him sing those words.
This is BY FAR SUPERIOR to Hotter's studio performance for Solti. Wow this is a Wotan on FIRE! Love Stewart Thomas for Karajan (and even G London under Leinsdorf) but in both voice and this remarkable "natural balance recorded sound" Hotter leaves them pale and lacking depth. What's the rest of the cast like? Thanks for putting it out.
I know that I'm 4 years late but here is the cast: www.wagnerdiscography.com/reviews/rin/rin56kna.htm This is a truly amazing recording, even though I prefer 1955 with a very similar cast (a notable exception being Ramon Vinay as Siegmund) and a much superior sound quality. It is conducted by Keilberth rather than Knappertsbusch though.
Hotter despite frequent unsteadiness remains for interpretation, timbre, & sonority the greatest that I have yet to experience in this role. What some like the late Mr. Steane tend to forget is how steady his tone could be maintained, at least, prior to 1955 in other repertoire. ICH HABE GENUG & Lieder recorded in 1949-50 especially that gem AM BACH IM FRÜHLING have for me never been surpassed. I have cherished this artist since I started private vocal study.
Orfeo uses the house tapes and it has been restored at s reasonable (Leontyne) price. The Pristine Audio is quite expensive. Hotter and Keilberth conducting from 1955 on Testsment (which initially recorded and was going to release) is also very good.
I don't wanna sound cliché... but... after listening again just a few lines... Before the War there were the superb Rudolf Bockelmann and Friedrich Schorr, perhaps even better than Hotter, but recorded in mediocre sound towards the end of their careers. After the War, there is no other Wotan, only Hotter. Period. It's one of those rare cases: Callas in Norma, Vishnevskaya in Onegin, Welitsch in Salome, Gigli in Chénier, Flagstad in Die Walkure, Crespin in Les Nuits d' Ete, Chaliapin in Boris, Schwarzkopf in Der Rosenkavalier... they "forbid" the role for anyone else!
+Dimitris L > John B is right. That Kipnis recording in 1926 is astounding. Don't get me wrong but nearly everyone at this level is a God-given talent. I was not familiar with the Kipnis recording and am adding it to Hotter, Frantz, and a few others for its excellence.
+Boris Badenovisback - Thanks, Boris ... the Kipnis types of Wagnerian recordings are somewhat RARE, these days ... but this, exceptional bass was one of the GREATEST of all, in any repertoire. Some of us will RETAIN a, certain favorable opinion of Hotter and others (Bockelmann?) in certain parts of the lower-voiced, Wagnerian singing, but Alexander K has a most-SOLID place ... in any place, way or any form/content.
Not everyone takes to Hotter's rather woolly sound. Also, he saw Wotan as more conventionally noble than we do these days, so it's an interpretation that's of its time rather than one for all time. He had a wonderful top, the bottom was solid and resonant, but at times the middle of the voice let him down, making him sound very strained. When he wasn't at his best he could be hard to listen to, and he often struggled with asthma and hay fever during his career, which didn't help. John Tomlinson was an equally great Wotan, but of a very different style. It's an impossible role to truly 'own' because there is so much there that can't be contained in one single reading, but JT's awesome bass voice and acting ability get as close as we can reasonably hope for.
Wow! Whatever happened to orchestral playing and a conductor to inspire( terrify?) like this? They play as if they actually love music. Orchestra playing sounds so routine and bored now, with a few notable exceptions. Wish Knapp had held the last chord a bit longer though!!!
Yea. It tells me that you are a racist, anti-Semitic nincompoop. At least Wagner had the good sense to acknowledge the brilliance of Halevy's "La Juive."
KatytheBard If you think Wagner was a Christian, then you need to go and study his life intensively, including reading Cosima's diaries from cover to cover. As things stand, you do not know what you are talking about.
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Genius- greatest music written. None surpasses Wagner for how he charged the world of music into a life force. Hans Hotter is the definitive Wotan, majestic and proud, wise and loving
"None surpasses Wagner for how he charged the world of music into a life force"... Richard Allen, you express it in beautiful words worthy of Wagner's poetry!
I first met Hans Hotter when I was about 14 years old. We used to pay very little for "standing only" tickets in the gods. I know, that he had some difficulty with the voice for a relatively short time, but he was THE WOTAN of his time. The tears still try to well up when .i listen to him.
I grew up on the 1965 version and loved it for what it was. The surprise here is not that the great voice itself is in so much better shape but rather the revelation is in the overwhelming expressivity of his interpretation. This is a performance that would melt a heart of stone.
Unbelievable performance of the Farewell by the unforgettable Hans Hotter, truly the most refined Wotan of all time. Utterly beautiful singing, lyrically done, with total impact. I was moved to tears. Thank you for posting!
Me too, auf Deutsch ich kann weinen mit diese Musik 😢
Und ich bin ein Franzose
from the balcony circle in San Francisco, Wotan Thomas Stewart didn't have the vocal force of Hotter, but this girl cried: after all, it is grand and mythical, the judgement of Brunhilde. You are not the same as other humans, if you have experienced it.
Knappertsbusch und Hans Hotter - wer die beiden in der Oper noch erleben konnte,der hat unvergessliche Erinnerungen.
unvergessliche Erinnerungen, die uns wahrhaft fehlen!!! Herrliche Zeiten!
Beneidenswert‼️
Always amazes me how he can sing such beautiful, pianissimi lieder and then this huge open sound in opera - but all part of a seamless technique.
Hotter is great, but the true glory of this recording is surely Knappertsbusch's inspired conducting. He truly sets the orchestra on fire. I wonder how Brünnhilde can get any sleep after this rousing performance!
Precisely.....The balance is sensational. I would trust Knapper with my life, and this is what Artists do all the time when they get up in front of an audience. This is simply gorgeous, and I have played enough Cycles to know.
Wow! Yes! With Wagner, tempo is everything, and this is amazing! He lets all the gravitas boom without letting go of the bright momentum. I heard Edo de Waart's Ring in San Francisco, and have always felt that as the standard, but this guy swings!
By far the best I have ever heaard. And on top of it all, one can actually understand what he is singing!
Was für eine Stimme!
Was für eine Stimme ❤️
Der unvergessliche Hans Hotter. Nicht nur dass er wunderbar sang, schon seine Imposante Gestalt. Wie er sich an der Sperspitze anhielt. Er war wirklich ein Gott!
Mein Gott, was waren das damals für Vorstellungen. So etwas sieht und hört man heute leider nicht mehr!!!
In Munich,ich war noch ein Kind,imPrinzregenten Theater, einfach unvergesslich!!!!
great and so moving...Beloved Wagner and Hans Hotter
The CD set of this performance of the entire Ring cycle is still available and very reasonably priced, and the rest of the cast is just as stellar.
jackal59: It is available on many labels, inexpensive (GALA) to very expensive (PRISTINE AUDIO) with several in between (MUSIC AND ARTS.). But the best of the lot, with restored sound, commentary, libretto is on the TESTAMENT label which accessed the tapes that DECCA planned to release but decided against doing robbing people of the opportunity to hear Astrid Varnay in her prime. Get the entire cycle on TESTAMENT conducted by Keilberth (1955) and this one with Kna (1956) on Orfeo. Then Solti, Karajan etc.
Knappertsbusch's tempi feel rapid, after the trend for dragging everything out in the "slow = meaningful" fashion... It's great to hear so much ENERGY, as well as beauty.
Rapid?? He’s slower than slow.
@@ransomcoates546 obviously you never suffered through what seemed like a decade of Wurtfangler. Sorry for what you have been subjected to.
And yet he lets the deep sound resound even as he drives it through. I love, love it! For just a little fast, Ormondy. For, will you live long enough, Furtwangler. Did Wagner himself have a clue, that the twitch of a baton, the very hearbeat of any given fool down through the decades would lift up or grind down the soul of an audience?
A supreme performance of one of opera's greatest pages.
Just to attempt this takes a heroic singer but to do it this well is a gift!
Hotter: supreme god! supreme voice! After this, to die.
This is how you Wotan.
knappertsbusch knew, there is no time in the Universe it is a fantastic recording
Gracias por poder escuchar lo que hoy es imposible encontrar ! ☀️🆖
I just love Hans Hotters voice. Also when he sings J.S.Bach and Schubert 🤩🤩🤩
Kna paces it perfectly for him to muster every bit of force he can put into each part of the last phrase. In most recordings you hear the singer has to clip some parts of it to gather breath along the way. Exceptional conducting as well as singing.
The Best, i have heard. I agree with all comments written. The beauty and force given by both, the conducter and the singer is so beautiful that I remain breath less. Thanks for given part and the information for CD
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Two words: "der Gott." Only Hans Hotter sang with the the depth of meaning that goes right to the soul. Love and grief combined. I tear up every time I hear him sing those words.
auch seine liederabende waren grossartig
Lo ví y escuhé en el Colón junto a Nilsson.
Jamás los olvidaré !!!
Hotter maravilloso como siempre y la orquesta con kna...sublime. grandes tiempos del festival de bayreuth
This is so very Good.
Simply the best!
Magnifico.
Supreme...the great Hans Hotter...wonderful
addio bel passato,addio per sempre.
What a voice!!!
This singing is more beautiful than London's. Hotter was really extraordinary.
I like London the most. This is amazing though.
sublime !
magnificent
Historical rendition.
Sin da ragazzo ho provato dei brividi ascoltando l'addio di Wotan e l'incantesimo del fuoco dalla Walkiria. Uno dei grandi vertici della musica
What a singer Waouuuu
Wow......BRAVO fom Acapulco!
Bravoooo
Estremecedor por tanta belleza!!!
Truly Majestic !!!
Maravilloso, no encuentro a nadie que se le parezca, sublime y de Kna ¡que decir! Insuperable. En definitiva esta versión es una joya.
Magnificent!!
the magic is here
Grandes momentos de Bayreuth. La ovación del final, justo reconocimiento a gloriosos intérpretes.
sublime
@egymagyar1111111 Never read such an adequate way to describe the genius Hans Knappertsbusch!
13:10 Wer meines Speeres Spitze fürchtet, durchschreite das Feuer nie!
Jose B. Caceres El tema de Siegfried, como premonición de Wotan.
Magnificent!!!!
Morris is a very good Verdi Bariton, Wotan is Hotter @ the first 200 places and just after that come the others including London
éternel Wagner, musique viscérale de l'amour d'un père pour sa fille. Bouleversant
Unvergleichlich‼️
un Wodan inolvidable
Hans you da man!
¡Así se canta! ¡Gloria a esos maravillosos artistas del pasado!
I would add jerome Hines to the list of great Wotan's - It is no accident that Solti had London in Rheingold, and Hotter in all the rest -
Yes it is. OR rather, it was. London was to play Wotan in "Die Walküre" as well, and Hotter in "Siegfried".
William farmer: That was not the only casting inconsistency throughout the Solti cycle which distracts from it’s value.
Advertising insertions in the middle of "Wotans Abschied" should be considered as an action of terrorism.....Nothing is respected in these times.
Colosal interpretación de Hotter y del Kna, auténtica
The Best wotam ever
What fire!!
Insuperable!!!
Deux génies chez le troisième
I am a Jew. I am a Homosexual. I am a Marxist. I am Proud!
.....you forgot to add that you're intractably deranged and in a persistent vegetative state.....Good Luck....from Acapulco!
Me siento absolutamente transportado.
Glorioso.
Славно, как и все у Kna, да и Хоттер хорош безусловно
De beste van heel veel opnames!!
Aquest Comiat de Wotan cantat per Hans Hotter i dirigit per Kna es un del moments
gloriosos d`aquesta òpera de Wagner .!!!!Sublims !!!
Eterno Wagner!!!!
Super!!😢😍👂🎹❤
Look forward to...
3:12-5:00!!!!!!!!
Moines Ouges statt meines Auges !!😮
Alle Vokale getrübt . Die Stimme eines slten Mannes !!
Total überschätzt !!
bravissimo
да есть начало, есть истина, есть вечный блеск и сияние страсти
Cao compositor va ser capaç de crear tanta bellesa com Wagner.
hines muss auch ein toller wotan gewesen sein
Hotter was the Wotan of my childhood, my teens, my adult years .. glorious .. but is this a little ... hurried?
😍😍😍
Ese tempo tan lento y la voz de hans hotter hacen de esto una barbaridad.
Querrás decir que es tan bueno, glorioso y sublime que la única expresión que encuentras es: "¡Qué bárbaro!" ¿No?
hotter habe ich oft als wotan gehört-diese mammutstimme
This is BY FAR SUPERIOR to Hotter's studio performance for Solti. Wow this is a Wotan on FIRE! Love Stewart Thomas for Karajan (and even G London under Leinsdorf) but in both voice and this remarkable "natural balance recorded sound" Hotter leaves them pale and lacking depth. What's the rest of the cast like? Thanks for putting it out.
I know that I'm 4 years late but here is the cast: www.wagnerdiscography.com/reviews/rin/rin56kna.htm
This is a truly amazing recording, even though I prefer 1955 with a very similar cast (a notable exception being Ramon Vinay as Siegmund) and a much superior sound quality. It is conducted by Keilberth rather than Knappertsbusch though.
Hotter despite frequent unsteadiness remains for interpretation, timbre, & sonority the greatest that I have yet to experience in this role.
What some like the late Mr. Steane tend to forget is how steady his tone could be maintained, at least, prior to 1955 in other repertoire. ICH HABE GENUG & Lieder recorded in 1949-50 especially that gem AM BACH IM FRÜHLING have for me never been surpassed. I have cherished this artist since I started private vocal study.
SUPERIOR
Kna i Hotter en estat de Gracia
OH ETERNELLE DESESPERANCE QUAND TU NOUS TIENS AUX TRIPES !
Hotter or London?
Tenkrát do toho duli, co se dalo..........
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Which version is this? What year? And on what label, etc. is it available on CD?
Orfeo uses the house tapes and it has been restored at s reasonable (Leontyne) price. The Pristine Audio is quite expensive. Hotter and Keilberth conducting from 1955 on Testsment (which initially recorded and was going to release) is also very good.
But I'm still unclear on the year and label for this particular recording. Is "Pristine Audio" a label?
The Orfeo recording was conducted by Clemens Krauss, not Hans Knappertbusch, so that is not the same recording as played here
Habe Ring zweimal in der Met gesehen, war gut, aber diese Tiefe wurde nicht ganz erreicht
13:00
ditto on the preceding
I don't wanna sound cliché... but... after listening again just a few lines... Before the War there were the superb Rudolf Bockelmann and Friedrich Schorr, perhaps even better than Hotter, but recorded in mediocre sound towards the end of their careers. After the War, there is no other Wotan, only Hotter. Period.
It's one of those rare cases: Callas in Norma, Vishnevskaya in Onegin, Welitsch in Salome, Gigli in Chénier, Flagstad in Die Walkure, Crespin in Les Nuits d' Ete, Chaliapin in Boris, Schwarzkopf in Der Rosenkavalier... they "forbid" the role for anyone else!
+Dimitris L - Listen to Alexander Kipnis in this music ... which is, also, on youtube.
+Dimitris L > John B is right. That Kipnis recording in 1926 is astounding. Don't get me wrong but nearly everyone at this level is a God-given talent.
I was not familiar with the Kipnis recording and am adding it to Hotter, Frantz, and a few others for its excellence.
+Boris Badenovisback - Thanks, Boris ... the Kipnis types of Wagnerian recordings are somewhat RARE, these days ... but this, exceptional bass was one of the GREATEST of all, in any repertoire. Some of us will RETAIN a, certain favorable opinion of Hotter and others (Bockelmann?) in certain parts of the lower-voiced, Wagnerian singing, but Alexander K has a most-SOLID place ... in any place, way or any form/content.
Not everyone takes to Hotter's rather woolly sound. Also, he saw Wotan as more conventionally noble than we do these days, so it's an interpretation that's of its time rather than one for all time. He had a wonderful top, the bottom was solid and resonant, but at times the middle of the voice let him down, making him sound very strained. When he wasn't at his best he could be hard to listen to, and he often struggled with asthma and hay fever during his career, which didn't help.
John Tomlinson was an equally great Wotan, but of a very different style. It's an impossible role to truly 'own' because there is so much there that can't be contained in one single reading, but JT's awesome bass voice and acting ability get as close as we can reasonably hope for.
Kipnis didn't sing the role though, so it's hard to really consider him a great Wotan. But I agree, he does this piece really well
soy Marina Roura
Was macht Wagners Zauber aus⁉️ Seine ungeschminkte, unverblümte Direktheit‼️
Alles unerreicht!
God-like genius, Wagner. Now we have Merkel, sigh.
Merkel, sie ist ein Dummkopf!!
Yes, from the sublime to the ridiculous, sigh.
Wow! Whatever happened to orchestral playing and a conductor to inspire( terrify?) like this? They play as if they actually love music. Orchestra playing sounds so routine and bored now, with a few notable exceptions. Wish Knapp had held the last chord a bit longer though!!!
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Only when Christians are inspired by the indigenous folkways of the European race can they create such beauty,
Kind of tells you something doesn't it?
I'm dense. I don't get it, what does it tell us?
Please expatiate and explicate.
Yea. It tells me that you are a racist, anti-Semitic nincompoop. At least Wagner had the good sense to acknowledge the brilliance of Halevy's "La Juive."
KatytheBard If you think Wagner was a Christian, then you need to go and study his life intensively, including reading Cosima's diaries from cover to cover. As things stand, you do not know what you are talking about.
You know the word bullshit?!
Yep, that you're a generic white supremacist.