Episode 404. Dan’s Belated Birthday Boys, Baritone Edition
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A brand-new episode today inaugurating a series of episodes belatedly celebrating my birthday that will see us through to the end of the month. I have so many singers, composers, and topics in which I am interested and hope to devote full episodes to in the near future. This is the first of two episodes focusing on baritones (and a few bass-baritones) who have not yet received full Countermelody treatment. Among the singers included: Josef Metternich, Tom Krause, Walter Berry, Theodor Uppman, Erich Kunz, Charles Panzéra, Roland Hermann, Aubrey Pankey, Kostas Paskalis, Gianni Maffeo, John Shirley-Quirk, and exemplary pop singers Scott Walker and David Allyn singing a wide range of music from art songs of Sibelius, Rachmaninov, Griffes, Diepenbrock, and Vaughan Williams, to mélodies by Ravel, Debussy, and Hahn, to Lieder by Schubert and Brahms, to operetta arias to opera scenes and arias by Leoncavallo, Verdi, and Manfred Gurlitt; to pop songs by Randy Newman and Rodgers and Hart. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg: also teased are forthcoming episodes on arie antiche and the Polish-Swiss composer Constantin Regamey. Come to think of it, today’s is an excellent introduction to the Countermelody podcast in all its range and scope.
RECORDINGS HEARD IN THIS EPISODE
Ruggero Leoncavallo: Schaut her, ich bin’s! [Si può? Si può?] (Der Bajazzo [Pagliacci]). Josef Metternich, Wilhelm Schüchter, Berliner Symphoniker [1953]
Constantin Regamey, Omar Khayyam: C’est moi! moi! (Chansons persanes, No. 8). Adam Kruszewski, Wojciech Michniewski, Sinfonia Varsovia [Swiss Radio Recording 1994]
Giuseppe Torelli, anonymous text: Tu lo sai. Ezio Pinza, Fritz Kitzinger [1940]
Jean Sibelius, Johan Ludvig Runeberg: Norden, Op. 90/1. Tom Krause, Pentti Koskimies [1967]
Franz Schubert, Johann Gabriel Seidl: Der Wanderer an den Mond, D. 870. Heinz Rehfuss, Frank Martin [1964]
Johannes Brahms, Georg Friederich Daumer: Wie bist du, meine Königin, Op. 32/9. Walter Berry, Erik Werba [1971]
Sergei Rachmaninov, Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet: In the Silence of the Night [В молчаньи ночи тайной], Op. 4/3. Pavel Lisitsian, Naum Walter [1961]
Maurice Ravel, Jules Renard: (Histoires naturelles, M.50/4). Martial Singher, Paul Ulanowsky [1953]
Maurice Ravel, Stéphane Mallarmé: Sainte, M. 9. Pierre Mollet, Alain Motard [1961]
Reynaldo Hahn, Théophile de Viau: À Chloris. Theodor Uppman, Donald Voorhees, The Bell Telephone Orchestra [live 28.V.1956]
Claude Debussy, François Villon: Ballade que Villon fait à la requeste de sa mère pour prier Notre-Dame (Trois ballades de François Villon, L.126a/2). Charles Panzéra, Orchestra conducted by Piero Coppola [1935]
Alfons Diepenbrock, Joost van den Vondel: Simeons Lofzang. Robert Holl, Rudolf Jansen [1995]
Charles Tomlinson Griffes, Rupert Brooke: Waikiki (Three Poems, Op. 9/2). Dale Duesing, Daniel Blumenthal [1984]
Traditional Spiritual: Hammer Song. Aubrey Pankey, Siegfried Stöckigt [1958]
Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart: Wait Till You See Her (By Jupiter). David Allyn, Orchestra conducted by Johnny Richards [1949]
Randy Newman: Just One Smile. Scott Walker, arranged and produced by Del Newman [1973]
Carl Zeller, Moritz West, Ludwig Held [after Victor Varin, Edmond de Biéville]: Wie mein Ahnl zwanzig Jahr (Der Vogelhändler). Erich Kunz, Anton Paulik, Orchester der Wiener Volksoper [1951]
Manfred Gurlitt, Georg Büchner: Das Messer! Wo ist das Messer? (Wozzeck). Roland Hermann, Robert Wörle, Anton Scharinger, Gerd Albrecht, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin [1993]
Giuseppe Verdi, Francesco Maria Piave, Andrea Maffei [after William Shakespeare]: Pietà, rispetto amore (Macbeth). Kostas Paskalis, Leonidas Zoras, Greek Radio Symphony Orchestra [unknown year]
Giuseppe Verdi, Antonio Somma [after Eugène Scribe]: Alla vita che t’arride (Un ballo in maschera). Gianni Maffeo, Jaroslav Vogel, Prague National Theatre Orchestra [1967]
Umberto Giordano, Luigi Illica: Un dì, m’era di gioia (Andrea Chénier). Riccardo Stracciari [1909]
Wolfgang Rödelberger, Georg Buschor: Good Night, Mama. Allan Evans, Orchester Wolfgang Rödelberger, produced Gerhard Mendelson [1975]
Ralph Vaughan Wiilliams, Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Silent Noon (The House of Life, No. 2). John Shirley-Quirk [radio recording, details unknown]