Does anyone still wear an intermission feature?
As Leon Botstein never said, “But I digress.” La Cieca invites you too, cher public, to digress here in your weekly intermission feature.
As Leon Botstein never said, “But I digress.” La Cieca invites you too, cher public, to digress here in your weekly intermission feature.
Were they any good???????????????
Wanna CRY?????????????????????
Curious what people here think of Karl Terkal.
He sings Barinkay on a great Zigeunerbaron recording I recently found, conducted by Heinrich Hollreiser. It was the first stereo recording of the work, with Hilde Gueden, Anneliese Rothenberger, Erich Kunz, Walter Berry, Hilde Rössel-Majdan, and the Wiener Philharmoniker. According to Rössel-Majdan, the recording was made after a concert at the Wiener Musikverein in 1959. It is more vivid than any other Zigeunerbaron I know (Krauss, Boskovsky, Ackermann, Harnoncourt), and Terkal, as the rest of the cast, is brilliant throughout. There is dialogue, but just enough, and spoken by the singers themselves. I would like to hear more Terkal – but there seems to be not a lot around. I wonder why?
He was active at the Wiener Staatsopera from 1950 to 1991, singing small parts like the Innkeeper in Rosenkavalier (221 times!), first prisoner in Fidelio (200 times), but also a few larger parts. I would be happy to hear more about him.
http://db-staatsoper.die-antwort.eu/search/person/2891
Buster,
A Terkal highlights CD that might interest you came out a few years ago:
http://www.operanostalgia.be/html/Terkal.html
In Christa Ludwig’s book (In My Own Voice), she compares Terkal and one of his contemporaries:
«The tenor Karl Terkal sang at the Vienna State Opera. He had a secure, brilliant high C, he was never hoarse because he was always in good shape vocally, and he mastered all his roles easily. The problem was that he lacked charisma and personality. Julius Patzak, on the other hand, didn’t have as beautiful a voice as Terkal, and he had a crippled hand, which he always did very skillfully on stage. Still, Patzak made a great career and Terkal didn’t. Patzak was an incomparable evangelist in Bach’s Passions and a great Palestrina in Hans Pfitzner’s opera, and he himself said: ‘If I had a voice like Terkal, I would never have made a career.’ »
Thanks a lot picchiettati for the helpful link, and happy to have the Ludwig quote as well! I really should read that book.
Buster dear!
Of all things, today I was clearing through and cleaning out a box of programs and memorabilia and guess what I found:
the 24 September 1995 Recital in Den Haag of Margaret Price, with Thomas Dewey accompanying.
As we have discussed this in the past, I thought you would like to have some more information on this never to be forgotten recital by the wonderful Mme. Price.
Hugo Wolf
Acht Lieder nach Texten von Edward Moerike
Der Gaertner
Bei einer Trauung
In der Fruehe
Heimweh
Begegnung
Lebe Wohl
Gesang Weylas
Er ist’s
Richard Strauss
An die Nacht
Traum durch die Dämmerung
Nachtgang
Wiegenlied
Schoen sind, doch kalt die Himmelssterne
Die Nacht
Staendchen
PAUSE
Richard Strauss
Vier Lieder, Op. 7
Ruhe, meine Seele
Caecilie
Heimliche Aufforderung
Morgen
Hugo Wolf
Fuenf Lieder nach Texten von Goethe
Mignon I: Heiss mich nict reden
Mignon II: Nur wer die Sehnsuch kennt
Mignon III” So lasst mich scheinen
Philine: Singet nicht in Trauertoenen
Mignon: Kennst du das Land
As encore I recall her singing “Schlechtes Wetter” of R. Strauss. It was a rainy day, and everyone chuckled.
love,
Camille
Many thanks, Camille, I greatly appreciate your posting this program here. I remember this was announced first as a Four Last Songs concert with orchestra, at the Circus Theatre in Scheveningen(!), and then evolving into this recital. I was away at the time, and extremely disappointed I could not attend. Luckily, I heard her the year after in Ann Arbor, with the Met orchestra, singing those Four Last Songs after all, and the year after that, in a Schumann/Wolf program, with that same Dewey kid, at the large hall of the Concertgebouw, also with a miraculous Mignon group as the highlight. Heimliche Aufforderung is one of my favorite Strauss songs -- her recording with Sawallisch is fabulous, but I am sure live she must have been breathtaking. Thanks again for taking the time to type this up -- it made me very happy. Love you too!