Track Listing

1. Als flotter Geist, doch früh versaist
2. Vem oss har vigt? (Wer uns getraut?)
3. Mein Herr Marquis
4. Trinke, Liebchen, trinke schnell
5. Lagunenwalzer
6. Hab' ich nur deine Liebe
7. Schenkt man sich Rosen in Tirol
8. Ich hab' kein Geld
9. Komm', Zigan'
10. Act 1. Finale
11. Sei gepriesen, du lauschige Nacht
12. Im Chambre séparéi
13. Lippen schweigen
14. Ich bin ein Zigeunerkind
15. O Mädchen, mein Mädchen
16. Bin verliebt, bin so verliebt
17. Schön wie die blaue Sommernacht
18. Heimatland
19. Ich liebe dich
20. Liebe, du Himmel auf Erden

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #169108 in Music
• Released on: 2003-07-15
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Viennese delicacies from singers of the past.
Record catalogues in the 1930s contained a rich selection of Viennese operetta excerpts. Peter Dempsey has assembled 20 of them on this invaluable CD, has provided authoritative notes, and somehow contrived to bring them to us in better sound than I have ever heard them before. It is wonderful to have the original balance and individual acoustics preserved, while having all the surface noise wiped off.

You will hear the sweet-voiced Charles Kullman in Johann Strauss firstly, complete with backing chorus and a thrilling high C at the end of his Zigeunerbaron aria. Elisabeth Schumann whoops and trills and whistles her way through two excerpts, and Richard Tauber shares the microphone with a schmalzy violin and throbbing zither in the Operball excerpt. Tauber is also heard in the only excerpt recorded in Vienna, a duet from Giuditta where the conductor is Lehar himself. Some of the rarer records of Julius Patzak, Anni Frind and Franz Volker are especially welcome. The Belgian tenor Marcel Wittrisch is heard in three excerpts, and rightly so. His special way with the Grafin Mariza tenor aria is one of the highlights here, and this track is also one of the best pieces of restoration work.

I hope this indicates that interested shoppers who add this CD to their cart will have the time of their lives with this issue. In amongst a cart full of historical reissues I purchased recently it has been the prizewinner.

Viennese delicacies from singers of the past.
Record catalogues in the 1930s contained a rich selection of Viennese operetta excerpts. Peter Dempsey has assembled 20 of them on this invaluable CD, has provided authoritative notes, and somehow contrived to bring the old recordings to us in better sound than I have ever heard them before. It is wonderful to have the original balance and individual acoustics preserved, while having all the surface noise wiped off.

You will hear the sweet-voiced Charles Kullman in Johann Strauss firstly, complete with backing chorus and a thrilling high C at the end of his "Zigeunerbaron" aria. Elisabeth Schumann whoops and trills and whistles her way through two excerpts, and Richard Tauber shares the microphone with a schmalzy violin and throbbing zither in the "Operball" excerpt. Tauber is also heard in the only excerpt recorded in Vienna, a duet from "Giuditta" where the conductor is Lehar himself. Some of the rarer records of Julius Patzak, Anni Frind and Franz Volker are especially welcome. The Belgian tenor Marcel Wittrisch is well-deservedly featured three times. His special way with the Grafin Mariza tenor aria is one of the highlights here, and this track is also one of the best pieces of restoration work.

I hope this indicates that interested shoppers who add this to their cart will have the time of their lives with this issue. In amongst a cart full of historical reissues I purchased recently it has been the prizewinner.