I’ve written about Janowitz a number of occasions earlier than (discover the hyperlinks beneath), so I received’t reiterate my affection for her totally distinctive, often off-putting, continuously ravishingly lovely voice.
Non-specialists in baroque music continuously carried out the Pergolesi Stabat Mater again within the day, so discovering Janowitz singing it with the Berlin Philharmonic in a Salzburg Pageant broadcast led by Claudio Abbado from 1968 isn’t all that uncommon.
We should be very grateful that many European radio companies recurrently put collectively top-flight opera performances for broadcast: on this case, German Radio together with RAI, ORTF and the BBC. With out them we wouldn’t have many distinctive and precious recordings together with right this moment’s Haydn that includes an unusually fiery Janowitz as Armida.
Schumann’s oratorio Das Paradies und die Peri isn’t carried out so typically, however within the forthcoming season it is going to even be staged twice, in Paris with Johanni van Oostrum and Samuel Hasselhorn and on the Theater an der Wien with the ever-present Elsa Dreisig.
After listening to Janowitz for this CC installment, I used to be enthusiastic about her very distinctive sound. Then I occurred to tug up a recording of this weekend’s Capriccio from the Salzburg Pageant. I in fact skipped proper to the midnight music after which the ultimate monologue and I used to be astonished at how a lot Elsa Dreisig jogged my memory of Janowitz in that music.
I’ve solely heard Dreisig in individual as soon as: final fall she was Sifare in Mozart’s Mitridate, Re di
Ponto on the Berlin Staatsoper. She sang actually superbly and sounded way more particular person than she had on the Minkowski recording made a number of years earlier. The Capriccio which I’ve listened to twice has made me curious to listen to extra of Dreisig who at the moment sings an curiously wide selection of music. Nonetheless, I don’t hear Janowitz a lot on this bit from the Vier Letzte Lieder.
Pergolesi: Stabat Mater
Gundula Janowitz
Maureen Forrester
Berlin Philharmonic
Conductor: Claudio Abbado
Salzburg Pageant
6 August 1968
Broadcast
Haydn: Armida
Zelmira: Nancy Burns
Rinaldo: Waldemar Kmentt
Ubaldo: Werner Hollweg
Clotarco: Horst R. Laubenthal
Idreno: Günter Reich
Cappella Coloniensis
Conductor: Ferdinand Leitner
Cologne
12 January 1968
Broadcast
Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri
Gundula Janowitz
Luciana Ticinelli-Fattori
Julia Hamari
Anna De Luca
Ursula Boese
Lajos Kozma
Ennio Buoso
Lothar Ostenburg
Robert Amis El Hage
Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Milano della RAI
Conductor: Herbert Albert
RAI of Milano
27 January 1967
Broadcast
Different Janowitz performances I’ve made out there embrace Eva in a Herbert von Karajan-led Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Donna Elvira; the Countess in an outstanding Nozze di Figaro with Mirella Freni, Frederica von Stade, José van Dam, and Gabriel Bacquier; Marenka in The Bartered Bride; and Amelia in Simon Boccanegra co-starring Bruno Prevedi, Ingvar Wixell, and van Dam in a uncommon Fiesco.
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