I thought you might like to know that my 6-month-old baby is mesmerized by your face and voice. She's watching now, and she particularly liked the kazoo! Maybe you should consider a sideline in children's entertainment?
Thank you for a stimulating and engaging review that I really enjoyed although I won’t be buying the set. I share your enthusiasm for Goltz whatever her faults. May I put it in a plea for a talk on the recorded legacy of East Germany? You have spoken highly of the work of Suitner, Kegel and Rögner as well as Blomstedt’s Dresden work during those years. It would be rewarding to hear you survey the period and its musical culture.
Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't see it--it's just too broad and (I think) better addressed as I have been doing, in the course of discussion of specific composers/works.
@@DavesClassicalGuide I take your point that it would be an unwieldy topic, but I am intrigued that a country of no more than 18 million citizens had such a very rich musical life. Also, the artists were the antithesis of the celebrities of the Karajan era in the West. When you talk so often about German culture in the thirties and forties, it would be interesting to have your analysis on another period, too.
How true the comment about the Radetzky March! This is why the funniest one is the 1989 one with Carlos Kleiber. Most of the audience quickly realises that Kleiber HATES this nonsense, so half of them stop clapping, and you can only hear some scattered, frightened enthusiasts.
Although, as mentioned, Krauss left no other commercially recorded complete R. Strauss operas other than the Salome, there does exist a full live recording of another Strauss opera conducted by him, captured from a radio broadcast: the Vienna premiere of Friedenstag, with K's wife Ursuleac (also picked by Strauss to be the first Daphne, Arabella, and Countess in Capriccio) and the youthful Hans Hotter; which was issued as part of the "Vienna State Opera Live" on Vol. 15, which also included excerpts from Arabella led by Krauss, again with Ursuleac. The sound quality ranges from tolerable to primitive, but of considerable interest to any Straussians or Kraussians not averse to historical recordings.
Of course, I had already bought the Krauss Decca VPO R. Strauss box! Sigh. Wish I had known this was coming. Say what you want about recordings of this era, they DO sound better than your kazoo. ;) Had he not died, I believe Krauss was to have recorded the 1954 Rosenkavalier that E. Kleiber eventually took over so beautifully.
Krauss was passed over for directorship of the Vienna State Opera in favor of Karl Bohm, and it is said he died of heartbreak shortly afterwards in 1954.
@@hmhparis1904 It was Krauss (not Böhm) who was awarded the directorship of the Berlin State Opera after Kleiber fled Germany in 1933. Krauss, Böhm, Furtwängler, all of those conductors favoured by the Nazi party, had to wait years after the end of WWII to be "De-Nazified" before they could resume performing.
I am so tempted by this, though I already have the Testament R.Strauss issues. Would you say there is an improvement in the transfers/remasters for this set? (Of course the other stuff in here is very tempting too......)
I ordered it today (Dec 4) from Import CDs for $59.39 + $2.99 shipping. Eloquence usually releases a video for new releases, but I haven't seen one for the Krauss box yet. Dave is the first time I heard of this box.
Recently purchased a live Bayreuth recording of Parsifal conducted by Krauss. Legendary
His Wagner's ring in Bayreuth is one of the greatest ever!
I thought you might like to know that my 6-month-old baby is mesmerized by your face and voice. She's watching now, and she particularly liked the kazoo! Maybe you should consider a sideline in children's entertainment?
I'm honored!
Thank you for a stimulating and engaging review that I really enjoyed although I won’t be buying the set. I share your enthusiasm for Goltz whatever her faults.
May I put it in a plea for a talk on the recorded legacy of East Germany? You have spoken highly of the work of Suitner, Kegel and Rögner as well as Blomstedt’s Dresden work during those years. It would be rewarding to hear you survey the period and its musical culture.
Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't see it--it's just too broad and (I think) better addressed as I have been doing, in the course of discussion of specific composers/works.
@@DavesClassicalGuide I take your point that it would be an unwieldy topic, but I am intrigued that a country of no more than 18 million citizens had such a very rich musical life. Also, the artists were the antithesis of the celebrities of the Karajan era in the West. When you talk so often about German culture in the thirties and forties, it would be interesting to have your analysis on another period, too.
How true the comment about the Radetzky March! This is why the funniest one is the 1989 one with Carlos Kleiber. Most of the audience quickly realises that Kleiber HATES this nonsense, so half of them stop clapping, and you can only hear some scattered, frightened enthusiasts.
Your next musical miniature talk should be Kazooed on Klassics with the Temple City Kazoo Orchestra! A masterpiece!
Although, as mentioned, Krauss left no other commercially recorded complete R. Strauss operas other than the Salome, there does exist a full live recording of another Strauss opera conducted by him, captured from a radio broadcast: the Vienna premiere of Friedenstag, with K's wife Ursuleac (also picked by Strauss to be the first Daphne, Arabella, and Countess in Capriccio) and the youthful Hans Hotter; which was issued as part of the "Vienna State Opera Live" on Vol. 15, which also included excerpts from Arabella led by Krauss, again with Ursuleac. The sound quality ranges from tolerable to primitive, but of considerable interest to any Straussians or Kraussians not averse to historical recordings.
Or Strauss' absolute worst opera.
Of course, I had already bought the Krauss Decca VPO R. Strauss box! Sigh. Wish I had known this was coming. Say what you want about recordings of this era, they DO sound better than your kazoo. ;) Had he not died, I believe Krauss was to have recorded the 1954 Rosenkavalier that E. Kleiber eventually took over so beautifully.
Krauss was passed over for directorship of the Vienna State Opera in favor of Karl Bohm, and it is said he died of heartbreak shortly afterwards in 1954.
No one dies of heartbreak.
@@hmhparis1904 It was Krauss (not Böhm) who was awarded the directorship of the Berlin State Opera after Kleiber fled Germany in 1933. Krauss, Böhm, Furtwängler, all of those conductors favoured by the Nazi party, had to wait years after the end of WWII to be "De-Nazified" before they could resume performing.
Kabasta couldn't wait.
@@geraldmartin7703 Yawn...
@@hmhparis1904 Thanks. What a saga!
If only Strauss had written a Kazoo Concerto! I suppose an ambitious toy trumpeter could arrange one of the horn concertos for kazoo.
Him and Nietzsche.
I am so tempted by this, though I already have the Testament R.Strauss issues. Would you say there is an improvement in the transfers/remasters for this set? (Of course the other stuff in here is very tempting too......)
No.
Did you get the set as a review copy? Can't find it anyplace except for Australia.
I ordered it today (Dec 4) from Import CDs for $59.39 + $2.99 shipping.
Eloquence usually releases a video for new releases, but I haven't seen one for the Krauss box yet.
Dave is the first time I heard of this box.
Coming officially in January, I understand. Yes, they sent it to me.
I actually think you harbor a secret desire to attend a New Years concert if only to clap on the off beat and throw everyone off.
From your mouth...
Everything recorded Krauss was not less than very very good!