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Edition Ferenc Fricsay (V) – J. Strauss: Die Fledermaus

• Die Fledermaus - Komische Oper in 3 Akten, Ouvertüre
• Ouvertüre (08:41)  

• Die Fledermaus - Komische Oper in 3 Akten, Akt I
• Nr. 1 Introduktion „Täubchen das entflattert ist“ (03:18)  
• Dialog (01:13)  
• Nr. 1a Duettino „Ach ich darf nicht hin zu Dir“ (00:52)  
• Dialog (00:41)  
• Nr. 2 Terzett „Nein mit solchen Advokaten“ (03:25)  
• Dialog (01:40)  
• Nr. 3 Duett „Komm mit mir zum Souper“ (03:11)  
• Dialog (01:37)  
• Nr. 4 Terzett „So muss allein ich bleiben“ (03:47)  
• Dialog (00:27)  
• Nr. 5 Finale (10:14)  

• Die Fledermaus - Komische Oper in 3 Akten, Akt II
• Nr. 6 Introduktion „Ein Souper heut uns winkt“ (01:35)  
• Dialog (01:58)  
• Nr. 7 Couplet „Ich lade gern mir Gäste ein“ (02:31)  
• Dialog (00:52)  
• Nr. 8 Ensemble „Ach meine Herrn und Damen“ (00:58)  
• Nr. 8 Couplet „Mein Herr Marquis“ (02:54)  
• Dialog (02:09)  
• Nr. 9 Duett „Dieser Anstand so manierlich“ (04:16)  
• Dialog (00:32)  
• Nr. 10 Csárdás „Klänge der Heimat“ (03:44)  
• Dialog (01:32)  
• Nr. 11 Finale „Im Feuerstrom der Reben“ (02:09)  
• „Herr Chevalier Ich grüße Sie“ (04:38)  
• Dialog (00:10)  
• „An der schönen blauen Donau“ (09:31)  
• „Genug damit, genug“ (04:05)  

• Die Fledermaus - Komische Oper in 3 Akten, Akt III
• Nr. 12 Entr‘acte (00:51)  
• Dialog (01:48)  
• Nr. 13 Melodram „So da wärn wir ja zu Hause“ (03:25)  
• Dialog (04:09)  
• Nr. 14 Couplet „Spiel ich die Unschuld vom Lande“ (04:04)  
• Dialog (05:27)  
• Nr. 15 Terzett „Ich steh voll Zagen“ (07:40)  
• Dialog (01:18)  
• Nr. 16 Finale „Oh Fledermaus“ (02:31)  

Ferenc Fricsay had been General Music Director of the Städtische Oper (today’s Deutsche Oper) and Chief Conductor of the RIAS Symphony Orchestra Berlin (today’s Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin) for only two months when he recorded this production of Die Fledermaus in eight days. Director Heinz Tietjen worked out the dialogues in such a way that they fit the medium of the radio.
Fresh, elastic tempi, a homogenous, precise overall performance, first-rate soloists like Peter Anders (Gabriel von Eisenstein), Rita Streich (Adele) and Helmut Krebs (Alfred), dialogues as one would hear them in a radio play: Ferenc Fricsay’s radio production of Die Fledermaus is not simply a historical but also a musically inspiring document.

The historical publications at audite are based, without exception, on the original tapes from broadcasting archives. In general these are the original analogue tapes, which attain an astonishingly high quality, even measured by today‘s standards, with their tape speed of up to 76 cm/sec. The remastering – professionally competent and sensitively applied – also uncovers previously hidden details of the interpretations. Thus, a sound of superior quality results. CD publications based on private recordings from broadcasts cannot be compared with these.

There is a “Producer’s Comment” online from producer Ludger Böckenhoff about this production.