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Ljuba Welitsch (Artist) | Format: Audio CD
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Disc: 1
1. Salome, Op. 54: Final Scene
2. Tosca - (Act I): 'Perche chiuso?...Mia gelosa'
3. Tosca - (Act II): 'Vissi d'arte'
4. Don Giovanni - (Act I): 'Don Ottavio, son morta!...Or sai, chi l'onore'
5. Don Giovanni - (Act II): 'Crudele! Ah no, mio ben... Non mi dir, bell'idol mio'
6. Die Fledermaus: 'Czardas'
7. Der Zigeunerbaron: 'Habet Acht' - (Gypsy Song)
8. Four Last Songs: 'Fruhling'
9. Four Last Songs: 'September'
10. Four Last Songs: 'Beim Schlafengehen'
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Disc: 2
1. Op. 43, No. 1: 'Von ewiger Liebe'
2. Op 105, No. 1: 'Wie Melodien Zieht Es Mir'
3. Op. 84, No. 4: 'Vergebliches Standchen'
4. 'Die Mainacht'
5. 'Meine Liebe ist grun'
6. Op. 2: 'Gretchen Am Spinnrade'
7. Op. 43, No. 1: 'Die Junge Nonne'
8. Schwanengesang: 'Liebesbotschaft'
9. Op. 32: 'Die Forelle'
10. Myrthen, Op. 25, No. 1: 'Widmung'
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Half of Bulgarian soprano Ljuba Welitsch's Columbia output stems from her salad days at the Met, when her silvery voice cut across the footlights like liquid fire. The 1950 Tosca and Don Giovanni selections, as well as her incomparable Salome Final Scene with the fiery Fritz Reiner at the helm, sound more potent than ever in these 20-bit transfers from original source material. Also memorable are two delicately scaled Joseph Marx lieder and a peerless Strauss Cacille. Sadly, the 1952-3 lieder sessions find Welitsch in dire straits: her voice has acquired a papery edge, with perceptive decline in intonation and breath control. Give Paul Ulanowsky credit, though, for admirably maneuvering through the thankless, Crisco-thick piano "deorchestrations" of Strauss' Four Last Songs. --Jed Distler

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5.0 out of 5 stars Enigimatic Flame!, Nov 14 2003
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This woman moved me! I felt exitement, finality, pain, passion, victory, sensuousness, and nostalgia of a time unknown to me. The Salome aria is the most convincingly and beautifully sung I have ever heard by far. The thread of sound is never broken. The lieder selections are very lovely and interestingly personal, not at all detached or serious; a joy. Strauss' Four Last Songs done with piano are quite effective as such.

The recorded sound is very impressive; a clean, full-bodied sound. Columbia's mono recordings are absolutely superior.

This soprano seemed to have something very important to say. There is an ever present urgency in her delivery, a haste, and a desperation that clings to the heart. As she sings, she invokes compassion, mystery, fear and joy.

Please hear this woman!

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5.0 out of 5 stars perhaps the most sensual of German lieder singers, Aug 21 1999
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This review is from: Comp Columbia Recordings (Rm) (Audio CD)
This collection of Ljuba Welitsch's singing Strauss is an great example of a singer's cultural connection to a composer giving her an almost eerily innate feeling for the music. Welitsch's voice can only be described as sexy, in a pre-war German sort of way, silvery hard and focused in tone combined with a sensuality of expression that is unique. She breathes life and fire into this music in a way that later singers -- even the great Elisabeth Schwarzkopf -- could not.
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5.0 out of 5 stars perhaps the most sensual of German lieder singers, Aug 21 1999
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This collection of Ljuba Welitsch's singing Strauss is an great example of a singer's cultural connection to a composer giving her an almost eerily innate feeling for the music. Welitsch's voice can only be described as sexy, in a pre-war German sort of way, silvery hard and focused in tone combined with a sensuality of expression that is unique. She breathes life and fire into this music in a way that later singers -- even the great Elisabeth Schwarzkopf -- could not.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Enchanting, in a 1930s - 1940s "Stokowski" kind of way., Dec 26 2010
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This review is from: Comp Columbia Recordings (Rm) (Audio CD)
I'm more into swing music of the 1930's - 1940's (as well as the movies); not a big Classical listener. I do love Stokowski's 1930s-40s recordings, though, as it's so "rich", it reminds me of the somewhat melodramatic (by today's standards), yet still very effective & moving, movie scores from the 1930s-40s era. Same thing with this CD set. I first eard it at someone else's house, and had to get a copy for myself. Like other reviewers said, very sensuous, in a vintage kind of way. I can see Humphrey Bogart taking Lauren Bacall out to a night at the opera when I hear this. If you love the general era of the 1930s-40s, you'll especially love this (even though I think it was actually recorded around 1950).
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