Robert Heger, conductor

R. Strauss – Feuersnot – Love Scene
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Robert Heger

Download – R. Strauss – Feuersnot – Love Scene – Heger

(mp3 file – right click the link, then select “Save as”)

His Master’s Voice C1841
Matrices CW 2161-IA, CW 2162-II (6-0659/60)
Recorded January 1929

The recording session was between the 9th and 25th January 1929.

The Zoppot Forest Opera ran from 1921 to 1944 in Sopot (now in Poland) and was known as the Bayreuth of the North. Many prominent singer and conductors performed there, though by 1942 when Siegfried and Die Meistersinger were performed, the singers were perhaps not such big names, but still acquit themselves well.

Wagner – Siegfried:
Siegfried und die Stimme des Waldvogels a.d. 2 Akt – Freundliches Vöglein, dich frage ich nun
Zwischenspiel a.d. 3 Akt
Berlin State Orchestra, Robert Heger
Heinz Kraayvanger, tenor
Cova Wackers, soprano

Wagner – Siegfried – Woodbird scene – Kraayvanger, Wackers, Heger

Wagner – Siegfried – Interlude to Act 3 Scene 3 – Heger
(mp3 file – click to play, or right click the link, then select “Save as”)

Polydor 67922
Matrices 1880½-GS9, 1891½-GS9
Recorded 18th June 1942 “Aufnahmen mit Künstlern der Zoppoter Waldoper 1942″
77.1rpm

Der Barbier von Bagdad – Mein Sohn, sei Allahs Frieden (Auftrittslied des Abul)
Der Barbier von Bagdad – Er lebt, er lebt (Schluß-Szene)
Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Robert Heger
Lorenz Fehenberger, tenor
Georg Hann, bass
Karl Hoppe, baritone (only in Er lebt, er lebt)

Mediafire link for Georg Hann singing Verdi, Rossini, Cornelius

(This is a zip file – left click the link, download the file, then unzip when downloaded)

Deutsche Grammophon 72012 (variable micrograde 78)
Matrices 01838LKK, 01839LKK (dated 30.5.50 and 5.6.50)