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Wagner: Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg - Della Casa, Töpper, Hopf, Frantz, Frick, Pflanzl, Hans Knappertsbusch / Orfeo D'Or, Bayerische Staatsoper Live / Orfeo 4x Audio CD, Mono 1997 / C 462 974 L
UPC 4011790462424
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (German: [diː ˈmaɪstɐˌzɪŋɐ fɔn ˈnʏʁnbɛʁk]; "The Master-Singers of Nuremberg"), WWV 96, is a music drama, or opera, in three acts, by Richard Wagner. It is the longest opera commonly performed, taking nearly four and a half hours, not counting two breaks between acts, and is traditionally not cut. With Hans von Bülow conducting, it was first performed on 21 June 1868 at the National Theater in Munich, today home of Bavarian State Opera.
The story is set in Nuremberg in the mid-16th century. At the time, Nuremberg was a free imperial city and one of the centers of the Renaissance in Northern Europe. The story revolves around the city's guild of Meistersinger (Master Singers), an association of amateur poets and musicians who were primarily master craftsmen of various trades. The master singers had developed a craftsmanlike approach to music-making, with an intricate system of rules for composing and performing songs. The work draws much of its atmosphere from its depiction of the Nuremberg of the era and the traditions of the master-singer guild. One of the main characters, the cobbler-poet Hans Sachs, is based on a historical figure, Hans Sachs (1494–1576), the most famous of the master-singers.
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg occupies a unique place in Wagner's oeuvre. It is the only comedy among his mature operas (he had come to reject his early Das Liebesverbot) and is also unusual among his works in being set in a historically well-defined time and place rather than in a mythical or legendary setting. It is the only mature Wagner opera based on an entirely original story, and in which no supernatural or magical powers or events feature. It incorporates many of the operatic conventions that Wagner had railed against in his essays on the theory of opera: rhymed verse, arias, choruses, a quintet, and even a ballet.
The autograph manuscript of the opera is preserved in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum.
| Label: | Orfeo – C 462 974 L |
|---|---|
| Series: | Orfeo D'Or, Bayerische Staatsoper Live |
| Format: |
4 x CD, Mono
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| Country: | Germany |
| Released: |
1997 |
| Genre: | Classical |
| Style: | Opera |
Tracklist:
| 1-1 | Vorspiel | 8:38 | |
| 1-2 | Da Zu Dir Der Heiland Kam | 3:24 | |
| 1-3 | Verweilt! Ein Wort! | 8:30 | |
| 1-4 | David, Was Stehst? | 0:53 | |
| 1-5 | Fanget An! | 14:15 | |
| 1-6 | Seid Meiner Treue Wohl Versehen | 4:32 | |
| 1-7 | Zu Einer Freiung | 2:43 | |
| 1-8 | Das Schöne Fest | 12:05 | |
| 1-9 | Wohl, Meister! | 3:33 | |
| 1-10 | Am Stillen Herd In Winterszeit | 4:46 | |
| 1-11 | Nun Meister, Wenn's Gefällt | 5:18 | |
| 2-1 | Fanget An! - So Rief Der Lenz | 13:53 | |
| 2-2 | Johannistag! | 4:05 | |
| 2-3 | Laß Sehn, Ob Nachbar Sachs | 6:42 | |
| 2-4 | Was Duftet Doch Der Flieder | 5:52 | |
| 2-5 | Gut'n Abend, Meister! | 9:35 | |
| 2-6 | Das Dacht' Ich Wohl. | 2:12 | |
| 2-7 | Da Ist Er! | 6:20 | |
| 2-8 | Üble Dinge, Die Ich Da Merk' | 2:57 | |
| 2-9 | Jerum! Jerum! | 13:36 | |
| 2-10 | Den Tag Seh' Ich Erscheinen | 6:02 | |
| 2-11 | Seid Ihr Nun Fertig? | 7:00 | |
| 3-1 | Vorspiel | 6:05 | |
| 3-2 | Gleich, Meister! Hier! | 7:17 | |
| 3-3 | Wahn! Wahn! Überall Wahn! | 6:56 | |
| 3-4 | Grüß Gott, Mein Junker! | 9:22 | |
| 3-5 | Morgendlich Leuchtend | 10:06 | |
| 3-6 | Ein Werbelied! | 15:02 | |
| 3-7 | Sieh' Evchen! | 4:00 | |
| 3-8 | Weilten Dier Sterne | 1:57 | |
| 3-9 | Hat Man Mit Dem Schuhwerk | 5:51 | |
| 3-10 | Ein Kind Ward Hier Geboren | 2:39 | |
| 4-1 | Die Selige Morgentraum-Deutweise | 5:55 | |
| 4-2 | Sankt Crispin Chor | 5:12 | |
| 4-3 | Ihr Tanzt? Was Werden Die Meister Sagen? |
5:45 | |
| 4-4 | Wach' Auf | 3:10 | |
| 4-5 | Euch Macht Ihr's Leicht | 5:21 | |
| 4-6 | Zum Teufel! Wie Wackelig! | 1:46 | |
| 4-7 | Morgen Ich Leuchte In Rosigem Schein | 3:25 | |
| 4-8 | Verdammter Schuster! | 5:05 | |
| 4-9 | Morgendlich Leuchtend | 7:22 | |
| 4-10 | Verachtet Mir Die Meister Nicht | 6:46 |
- Booklet Editor – Gabriel Teschner, Thomas Schultz
- Chorus – Chor Der Bayerischen Staatsoper
- Composed By – Richard Wagner
- Conductor – Hans Knappertsbusch
- Cover – CC Schriefer
- Engineer [Recording] – Werner Mälzig
- Liner Notes – Gabriel Teschner, Peter Jonas
- Liner Notes [Translated By] – Lionel Salter
- Liner Notes [Translated By] – Myriam Hahn-Plouvier
- Orchestra – Bayerisches Staatsorchester
- Photography By – Sabine Toepffer
- Recording Supervisor – Theodor Holzinger
- Remastered By – Gottfried Kraus, Othmar Eichinger
- Vocals [Augustin Moser] – Karl Ostertag
- Vocals [Balthasar Zorn] – John Kuhn (3)
- Vocals [David] – Paul Kuen
- Vocals [Ein Nachtwächter] – Willy Schmitz
- Vocals [Eva] – Lisa Della Casa
- Vocals [Fritz Kothner] – Albrecht Peter
- Vocals [Hans Folz] – Rudolf Wünzer
- Vocals [Hans Sachs] – Ferdinand Frantz
- Vocals [Hans Schwarz] – Walter Bracht
- Vocals [Hermann Ortel] – Adolf Keil
- Vocals [Konrad Nachtigall] – Karl Hoppe
- Vocals [Kunz Vogelgesang] – Franz Klarwein
- Vocals [Magdalene] – Hertha Töpper
- Vocals [Sixtus Beckmesser] – Heinrich Pflanzl
- Vocals [Ulrich Eisslinger] – Emil Graf
- Vocals [Veit Pogner] – Gottlob Frick
- Vocals [Walther von Stolzing] – Hans Hopf
