Ferenc Fricsay, RIAS Symphonie-Orchester, Berlin - Verdi: Messa da Requiem; Rossini: Stabat Mater (1993)
Ferenc Fricsay, RIAS Symphonie-Orchester, Berlin - Verdi: Messa da Requiem; Rossini: Stabat Mater (1993)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 556 Mb | Total time: 77:40+72:02 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 439 684-2 | Recorded: 1954, 1960
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 556 Mb | Total time: 77:40+72:02 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 439 684-2 | Recorded: 1954, 1960
This set, issued to mark the 75th anniversary of Fricsay's birth, dates from late 1960 when the conductor was already suffering from the disease that killed him. It was to prove to be his final performance of the piece. I don't think it's fanciful to feel in this intensely dramatic and immediate reading that the conductor fully realized his own mortality. At any rate it's an interpretation of tragic force and lyrical beauty that eclipses most of its rivals. Fricsay was here working with a choir and orchestra entirely devoted to him and, as in the Shaw performance on Telarc/Conifer such familiarity pays huge dividends in terms of unified thought. Then, the circumstances of a live occasion seem to infect everyone concerned with a feeling of urgency.
Fricsay's tempos, though sometimes on the deliberate side (the opening Kyrie and the "Recordare" for instance), are well-judged and properly adjusted one to another, and he moulds the whole work with an enviable command of line. The discipline of both singing and playing are quite remarkable, and the tone of both sectors is as warm and deeply eloquent as on any other performance of the thirty or so I know. Indeed, Verdi would surely have been delighted at the keenness and singing line produced by the strings throughout. The balance between the sections of the orchestra and between the choir and orchestra is also ideal on this excellent mono recording.
The solo performances, forwardly recorded, are impressive. Oralia Dominguez sings with strength of voice and inner conviction, with a subtle use of rubato and dynamic variation. Gabor Carelli, Toscanini's Dr Caius and a Gigli pupil, is a tenor of great sensitivity. His account of both the "Ingemisco" and "Hostias" are Gigli-like in their sweetness of accent and freedom of style. He and the bass Ivan Sardi are Hungarian by birth like their conductor, but both sound convincingly Italianate. Sardi's tone is firm and vibrant, and his line in "Oro supplex" exemplary. Stader, who appeared in Fricsay's earlier version, was also Hungarian born but brought up and trained in Switzerland. Her voice, like Schwarzkopf's on the Giulini set (EMI) was not made by nature for this music, and she often seems under some stress, but her conviction cannot be denied. I was worried only by one or two moments of flatness.
You won't find a more beseeching, broadly phrased account in the catalogue; those of the Requiem by Muti (EMI) and Abbado (DG) don't evince the same inevitability of utterance and Karajan (also DG) sounds dull beside Fricsay. The Shaw version is of course superior in terms of sound alone, but his performance, appealing as it is, wants the sheer urgency of this one, inspired by a very great conductor. Its only peer is the Giulini, and the choral recording there, though in stereo, hasn't the breadth of that on the Fricsay. Hear this set if you can-and you will surely be persuaded of its merits.– Alan Blyth
Performer:
Verdi: Messa da Requiem
Maria Stader, soprano
Oralia Dominguez, mezzo sopano
Gabor Carelli, tenor
Ivan Sardi, bass
Rossini: Stabat Mater
Maria Stader, soprano
Marianna Radev, alto
Ernst Haefliger, tenor
Kim Borg, bass
RIAS Kammerchor
Chœur de la Cathédrale Saint Edwige
Radio-Symphonie-Orchester, Berlin
Ferenc Fricsay, conductor
Track List:
CD1:
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Messa da Requiem
01. Requiem
02. Dies Irae: Dies Irae
03. Dies Irae: Tuba mirum
04. Dies Irae: Liber scriptus
05. Dies Irae: Quid sum miser
06. Dies Irae: Rex tremendae
07. Dies Irae: Recordare
08. Dies Irae: Ingemisco
09. Dies Irae: Confutatis
10. Dies Irae: Lacrymosa
11. Offertorio
12. Sanctus
13. Agnus Dei
14. Lux aeterna
CD2:
01. Libera Me
Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)
Stabat Mater
02. Stabat Mater
03. Cujus animam
04. Quis est homo
05. Pro peccatis
06. Eja mater
07. Sancta mater
08. Fac ut portem
09. Inflammatus et accensus
10. Quando corpus
11. In sempiterna saecula
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Ferenc Fricsay, RIAS Symphonie-Orchester, Berlin - Verdi: Messa da Requiem; Rossini: Stabat Mater (1993)
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