Karl Bohm - The Complete Opera & Vocal s

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Product Description ------------------- Karl Bohm’s name carries with it immense respect among musicians and connoisseurs in our most sophisticated markets, particularly for opera where his “gods” were Mozart, Wagner and Richard Strauss. Deutsche Grammophon proudly brings together for the first time his complete vocal s for the label – including the star-studded 1968 ‘Le nozze di Figaro’; the legendary ‘Zauberflöte’ from 1964 with Fritz Wunderlich and Roberta Peters; Bohm’s two s of the ‘Missa solemnis’, two Rosenkavaliers, three s of Ariadne auf Naxos, Wagner’s Hollander & Tristan … and one disc of new-to-CD s. Beautiful packaging and presentation. • 70 CDs presenting Karl Böhm’s complete vocal s on Deutsche Grammophon, including studio productions as well as timeless live s from Vienna, Salzburg and Bayreuth. • Additional spoken word s (in German) with Böhm detailing his relationships with Richard Strauss, Mozart and the Vienna Philharmonic: including one full disc of s new to CD (English synopsis for CD 70, "A Life Retold" available online) • PACKAGING: A lift-off box featuring new liner notes by Richard Osborne • The 1944 Ariadne auf Naxos available digitally for the first time HIGHLIGHTS • Legendary s of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro and Die Zauberflöte • Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer and Tristan und Isolde live from the Bayreuth Festival • Two s of Beethoven’s Missa solemnis (1955, 1974) • Two s of Mozart’s Don Giovanni (1967, 1977) • Two s of R. Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier (1958, 1969) • Three s of R. Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos (1944, 1954, 1969) Review ------ “Bohm plays the music for all it’s worth, and with an absolute understanding of what it is worth in terms of expression.” GRAMOPHONE, on Bohm’s unsurpassed 1965 of Wozzeck “The spirit of ensemble was quite unlike anything I have ever experienced and it was obviously helped by Karl Bohm’s sensitive and beautifully balanced reading.” OPERA MAGAZINE, on Bohm’s 1960 Saltzburg performance of Così fan tutte P.when('A').execute(function(A) { A.on('a:expander:toggle_description:toggle:collapse', function(data) { window.scroll(0, data.expander.$expander[0].offsetTop-100); }); }); About the Artist ---------------- KARL BOHM The great German mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig described Bohm as her ideal mentor, not least because he was one of those rare conductors who genuinely understood the voice. But then, she was Bohm’s kind of artist: a singer who sang in tune and on the beat, with every note-value and rest precisely observed. Bohm was austere and less assured singers than Ludwig had a harder time, but all the same, Bohm was respected as an artist who patently knew his craft. Bohm was one of the quintessential conductors of opera in the history of recorded music, especially when it came to his three beloved musical “gods”: Mozart, Wagner and Richard Strauss – the latter with whom he enjoyed a long personal and professional relationship. During his career Bohm enjoyed tenures with the Munich Opera, and as Music Director in Dresden, Vienna and Salzburg, and at the same time spent a good deal of time freelancing abroad. Many of Bohm’s most memorable s were made live. He disliked studio and was often misrepresented by it, especially in the orchestral repertory. Hence his reputation among those who never heard him live in the opera house as a kind of fossilized Kapellmeister. Alongside the studio productions here are timeless documents from Vienna, Salzburg and Bayreuth – including Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer and Tristan und Isolde, recorded at the Bayreuth Festival and other touchstones of excellence and historic resonance, Strauss’ Arabella and Daphne, made respectively at Salzburg and Vienna. See more ( javascript:void(0) )