Episode 466. Baritones Both Butch and Bonnie
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SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM
Today’s episode features baritones of all stripes (with the occasional bass-baritone) in a program focusing primarily on song in its various manifestations. Whether that be Broadway and pop tunes (sung by Alfred Drake, Allan Evans, and Harve Presnell); Schubert (performed by Doda Conrad, Bernard Diamant, Max van Egmond, Robert Holl, and Siegfried Lorenz); other German Lieder (with Victor Braun and Heinrich Schlusnus); Russian and Nordic song (sung by Matti Lehtinen, Yuri Mazurok, Erik Sædén, Martti Talvela, Knut Skram, and Gerhard Hüsch); or folk song (as recorded by Arne Dørumsgaard, John Bröcheler, and Spyros Sakkas), there’s something here for everyone. And to avoid accusations of prejudice against arias, I round off the episode with three arias: one from opera (Tannhäuser, sung – in Italian! – by Apollo Granforte), one oratorio (Handel’s Samson, with Thomas Stewart), and one operetta (from Viktoria und ihr Husar, performed by Bernd Weikl).
RECORDINGS HEARD IN THIS EPISODE
Richard Wagner: O tu bell’astro incantator [O du mein holder Abendstern] (Tannhäuser). Apollo Granforte, Carlo Sabajno, Orchestra of La Scala Milano [1928]
Luigi Dallapiccola, Anonymous Greek text, translated Salvatore Quasimodo: Dormon le cime dei monti (Cinque canti). Frederick Fuller, Orchestra conducted by Frederick Prausnitz [1960]
Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz: If There Is Someone Lovelier than You (Revenge with Music). Alfred Drake, Ray Charles Singers and Orchestra [1957]
Robert Wright, George Forrest [after Alexander Borodin]: And This Is My Beloved (Kismet). Harve Presnell, Orchestra conducted by Henri René [1964]
Luiz Bonfá, Antônio Maria, French lyric by Marcel Camus: Chanson d’Orphée (Manha de Carneval). Allan Evans [1976]
George Frideric Handel, Newburgh Hamilton [after John Milton]: How willing my paternal love (Samson). Thomas Stewart, Charles Mackerras, Münchener Bach-Orchester [1969]
Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky, Konstantin Konstantinovich Romanov: I Opened the Window [Растворил я окно], Op. 63/2. Yuri Mazurok, Antonina Afanassieva [1969]
Franz Schubert, Johann Rochlitz: An die Laute, D. 905. Bernard Diamant, John Newmark [1964]
Franz Schubert, Karl Gottfried von Leitner: Die Sterne, D. 939. Doda Conrad, Lili Kraus [1956]
Franz Schubert, Heinrich Heine: Das Fischermädchen, D.957/10. Max van Egmond, Irwin Gage [live Wien 1973]
Franz Schubert, Johann Mayrhofer: Fahrt zum Hades, D. 526. Robert Holl, David Lutz [1994]
Franz Schubert, Johann Chrysostomus Senn: Schwanengesang, D. 744. Siegfried Lorenz, Norman Shetler [1977]
Robert Schumann, Heinrich Heine: Ich wandelte unter den Bäumen (Liederkreis, Op. 24/3). Victor Braun, Antonin Kubalek [1990]
Richard Strauss, Otto Julius Bierbaum: Freundliche Vision, Op. 48/1, Heinrich Schlusnus, Franz Rupp [1930]
Yrjö Kilpinen, Christian Morgenstern: Winternacht (Lieder um den Tod, Op. 62/4). Gerhard Hüsch, Margaret Kilpinen [1935]
Yrjö Kilpinen, Veikko Antero Koskenniemi: Rannalta I [On the Shore], Op. 23/1. Martti Talvela, Irwin Gage [1971]
Edvard Grieg, Henrik Ibsen: En svane, Op. 25/2. Knut Skram, Eva Knardahl [1995]
Erik Bergman, Salvatore Quasimodo: Alcmone (Nox, Op. 65/1). Matti Lehtinen, Harald Andersén, Finnish Radio Chamber Choir [1971]
Seppo Nummi, Kalervo Hortamo: Hautajaiset [Funeral] (Syndänmaa [Wilderness], No. 2). Matti Lehtinen, Pentti Koskimies [1973]
Wilhelm Stenhammar, Gustaf Fröding: Fylgia, Op. 16/4. Erik Sædén, Stig Westerberg [1957]
Traditional Finnish, arr. Arne Dørumsgaard: Kun ensi kerran [When for the first time]. Arne Dørumsgaard, Orchestra conducted by Robert Cornman [1957]
Traditional Spanish, arr. Manuel de Falla: Asturiana (Siete canciones populares españolas, No. 3). Spyros Sakkas, Georg Kouroupos [1979]
Traditional Croatian: Ljubav junaka prama svojoj majci [Soldier’s Farewell from his Mother]. John Bröcheler, Tan Crone [1979]
Jerzy Vidal, Wiktor Maksymkin: Łzy mojej matki [My Mother’s Tears]. Bernard Ładysz, Orkiestra Adama Wiernika [1966]
Paul Abraham, Alfred Grünwald, Fritz Löhner-Beda [after Imre Földes]: Good Night [Reich mir zum Abschied] (Viktoria und ihr Husar). Bernd Weikl, Kurt Eichhorn, ORF-Symphonieorchester [1983]
