This year I’ve transferred an LP of excerpts from Johann Strauss II’s Die Fledermaus, to welcome in the new year in traditional Viennese Style.
Walter Goehr recorded prolifically, but is not well known. In the 1930s and 40s he recorded widely for EMI, particularly conducting orchestral accompaniments for singers, choruses and soloists. He also conducted some purely orchestral recordings, mostly light classics or pots-pourris, sometimes in the guise of George Walter. In the LP era he mainly recorded for smaller companies. This included recordings for Saga and related labels, at times under pseudonyms (Vladimir Tergorsky, William Stellar) and, as here, for the Concert Hall Society.
Concert Hall CM 2022 Matrices CM 2022-1, CM 2022-2 Recorded 1954 Zurich Radio Orchestra, Walter Goehr Johannes Bartsch (baritone) – Eisenstein Uta Graf (soprano) – Rosalinde Hedda Heusser (soprano) – Adele Albert Kunz (tenor) – Alfred Richard Miller (tenor) – Falke Rita Pich (soprano) – Ida Mathias Schmid (baritone) – Frank Nata Tuescher (mezzo-soprano) – Orlofsky
Die Fledermaus – excerpts Overture Act 1: Introduction (Alfred, Adele) – Täubchen, das entflattert ist Duet (Falke, Eisenstein) – Komm mit mir zum Souper Trio (Rosalinde, Adele, Eisenstein) – So muss allein ich bleiben Drinking Song (Alfred, Rosalinde) – Trinke, Liebchen, trinke schnell Couplet (Rosalinde) – Mein Herr, was dächten Sie Trio (Rosalinde, Alfred, Frank) – Nein, nein, ich zweifle gar nicht mehr Act 2: Couplet (Orlofsky) – Ich lade gern mir Gäste ein Laughing Song (Adele) – Ach, meine Herrn und Damen… Mein Herr Marquis Duet (Rosalinde, Eisenstein) – Dieser Anstand, so manierlich Csardas (Rosalinde) – Klänge der Heimat Ensemble (Soloists and chorus) – Im Feuerstrom der Reben