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Beethoven: Fidelio / Bernstein, Janowitz, Kollo, Popp


Release Date: 09/13/2005 
Label:  Deutsche Grammophon   Catalog #: 000526702   Spars Code: ADD 
Composer:  Ludwig van Beethoven
Performer:  Hans Sotin,  Lucia Popp,  Gundula Janowitz,  René Kollo,   ... 
Conductor:  Leonard Bernstein
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Number of Discs: 2 
Recorded in: Stereo 
Length: 2 Hours 15 Mins. 

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Notes and Editorial Reviews

"Bernstein's is the performance which has the idea of letting Leonore's and Florestan's duet fade into the Overture, and the finale's C major catharsis burst out of it. It is a brilliant coup, typical of Bernstein as a man of the theatre, and it epitomizes his instinct for tempo relationships and for the harmonic breathing of the entire score...And only Bernstein has scooped Fischer-Dieskau for a Don Fernando to bring true light out of darkness.
With Dallapozza and Popp, Jacquino and Marzelline do spring to larger life...and Manfred Jungwirth's fatherly, Austrian Rocco epitomizes this recording's imaginative casting.
The principals, too, win hands down. Hans Sotin's Pizarro unleashes a real reign of terror at ''Ha! welch' Read more ein Augenblick''...Gundula Janowitz's Leonore (helped, again, by the impetus of Bernstein's tempo in ''Komm, Hoffnung'') has all the power and pain of Solti's Behrens... Rene Kollo builds and sustains an extraordinary crescendo of agony out of a ''Gott!'' which starts as a long, distant howl of sub-human torment. That, perhaps, says it all."
- Hilary Finch, GRAMOPHONE

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Works on This Recording

1. Fidelio, Op. 72 by Ludwig van Beethoven
Performer:  Hans Sotin (Bass), Lucia Popp (Soprano), Gundula Janowitz (Soprano),
René Kollo (Tenor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Baritone), Manfred Jungwirth (Bass)
Conductor:  Leonard Bernstein
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Classical 
Written: 1804/1814; Vienna, Austria 

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