- Audio CD (October 6, 1998)
- SPARS-Code: ADD
- Number of Discs: 2
- Label: Sony Class (Sony BMG)
- ASIN: B00000DFNQ
Carl Heinrich Arnold: String Quartette in Spohr's home (after
1835)
DISCOGRAPHY
Louis Spohr's Symphonies, most of his Concertos, String-Quartetts and Chamber Music have been recorded. His Discography shows more than 280 titles, but there are until now only 3 operas available on Compact Discs.
His complete Lieder (German Art songs) are hardly to be found.
Dietrich-Fischer Dieskau and his wife Julia Varady
produced a CD in 1985 ; with selected Lieder for baritone and piano as
well as op.154 and op. 103 (Sechs deutsche Lieder für Sopran,
Klarinette und Klavier). Label: Orfeo.
Other recordings can be found, most often on collected Lieder CDs among
other composers, for example Olaf Bär with
Frühlingsglaube; Der erste Kuss; Schlaflied; Getrennte Liebe; Beruhigung
(Label:
Musicaphon) or Helen Donath with op.103 (Label: Arts,
1981). Ernst Gerold Schramm sings 6 Gesänge op.154 (Label:
Melisma); Fritz Wunderlich sings Spohr's Ungeduld op.94,4
(CD "His last Liederabend", Label: DGG 1966); Hermann Prey
performs Spohr (CD "An die ferne Geliebte"; Label: Philips);
Christoph Pregardian (CD "Lieder von Liebe und Tod", Label: Signum,
1997).
Marjorie Patterson (Daniel Sarge, piano) produced a Spohr - Lieder CD
with op.25; op.37; op.41; op.72 and WoO 90 Lied des verlassenen
Mädchens und WoO 91 Nachgefühl (Label: MARCO POLO). Soprano
Lucia Rizzi recorded 6 Deutsche Lieder op.37; op.41; op.72; and
Rose wie bist Du reizend und mild from Zemire und Azor. Frederic
Zigante, piano. Label: Stradivarius.
Andrea Meláth sings Erlkönig (violin: Katalin Kokas) ; Label: Hugaroton Collection JANUS. Susan Owen-Leinert (Highwater Classics), Renée Morloc (ARS), Cornelia Wulkopf (ARS), Matthias Eisenberg (RAM), Antje Perschollka (POOL), Kirstin Theisen (Tho), Christina Högmann (BIS), among other singers who have recorded Spohr-Lieder in combination with works of other composers.
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Available complete recordings of Spohr’s operas
Faust (WoO 51 /
51a)
Among the cast are such well known singers as Hillevi Martinpelto,
Franz Hawlata and Bo Skovhus. Klaus Arp conducting the SWR
Radio Orchestra, Kaiserslautern.Audio
CD
(December 1, 1995)
· SPARS Code: DDD
· Number of Discs: 2
· Label: Capriccio
· ASIN: B00008EWM1
Faust (recitative version of 1852)
In 1852 Spohr received a commission from the Royal Italian Opera of
Covent Garden to
prepare a version of FAUST to suit its performance
practice: a through-composed version
rounded off into a grand opera.
The recording is a live production of the Bielefeld opera house from June 17/18, 1993. Geoffrey Moull conducting the Bielefelder Philharmonie, Chorus of the Bielefeld opera house.
· Audio CD (March 22, 1994)
· SPARS Code: DDD
· Number of Discs: 2
· Label: Cpo Records
· ASIN: B000001RXN
Zemire und Azor (WoO 52)
The Beauty and the Beast
After discarding plans for an adaptation of the medieval story The Black Huntsman (Carl Maria von Weber had “beaten him to the punch” by adapting it as Der Freischütz), Spohr tackled the famous legend of Beauty and the Beast, as written by poet Johan Jakob Ihlee based on a four-decade-old French libretto, Zemire et Azor, originally meant for French composer André Gretry. In his score, Spohr aimed at something lighter and more winsome than Faust, a melodically attractive opera with some fashionable Rossinian elements. The opera is cast in two acts, divided into seventeen numbers. The first performance was given under his direction on April 4, 1819. Needless to say, here is a story which has been passed down through many forms and to many audiences over the years, whether we speak of the classic French film based on Jean Cocteau’s adaptation or the wildly popular Disney animated movie. Spohr’s wonderfully melodic score combines with this beloved tale to provide a memorable listening experience for both aficionados of Romantic Opera and those who love the sheer fantasy of Beauty and the Beast.
A production with singers of the Manhattan School of Music,
New York,
Christopher Larkin conducting. English spoken dialogues.
· Audio CD (July 1, 2005)
· SPARS Code: DDD
· Number of Discs: 2
· Label: Albany Records
· ASIN: B0009Y26FE
Zemire und Azor (WoO 52)
Anton Kolar conducting the Max Bruch Philharmonie,
a production of the
Theater Nordhausen.
· Audio CD (11. März 2003)
· Number of Discs: 2
· Label: Ds (Pool Music und Media)
· ASIN: B0000288EE
Jessonda (WoO 53)
Gerd Albrecht conducting the Hamburg State Philharmonic Orchestra., with
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Julia Varady, Renate Behle,
Kurt Moll a.o.
The Chorus of the Hamburgische Staatsoper.
· Audio CD (April 20, 1994)
· SPARS Code: DDD
· Label: Orfeo
· ASIN: B0000059BV
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Famous singers performing Spohr (some selected
examples):
Lily Pons sings "La
Fauvette" from Zemire et Azor. Andre Kostelanetz conducting the
Columbia Concert Orchestra.
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Joan Sutherland
recorded a song from Zemire und Azor in the English translation
„Rose softly blooming“. Richard Bonynge conducting.
· Audio CD (November 23, 2004)
· SPARS Code: ADD
· Number of Discs: 1
· Label: Pearl
· ASIN: B00065MJ76
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Evelyn
Lear
recorded an aria of
Jessonda, WoO 53: "Als
in mitternächt'ger Stunde...Als darauf im Morgengold"
Heinrich Hollreiser conducting.
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Thomas Hampson
recorded an aria from Faust (two versions
WoO 51 / WoO 51a, Act I: „Der Hölle selbst will ich...Liebe ist die
zarte Blüte“).
Fabio Luisi conducting the Munich Radio Orchestra.
· Audio CD (June 13, 1995)
· SPARS Code: DDD
· Number of Discs: 1
· Label: Capitol
· ASIN: B000002RUN
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ORATORIO
Die Letzten Dinge WoO 61 (1825/26)
Oratorium nach Worten der Heiligen Schrift
von Friedrich Rochlitz
Mitsuko Shirai, Marjana Lopovsek, Josef Protschka and Matthias Hölle are among of the prominent cast of this recording. Conductor: Gustav Kuhn; Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart; Südfunk-Chor. (live recording: October 6, 1984. With kindly support of Internationale Louis Spohr Gesellschaft, Kassel. Coproduction: Süddeutscher Rundfunk). Label: Philips
Die Letzten Dinge WoO 61
Bruno Weil conducting the CAPELLA COLONIENSIS
ChorWERK RUHR.
Anna
Korondi, Vanessa Barkowski, Jörg Dürmüller,
Vladimir Baykov.
Live recording at Kulturzentrum Herne:
November 10, 2006 in cooperation with WDR Köln and the Internationale
Spohr Gesellschaft e.V., Kassel.
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Des Heilands letzte Stunden
WoO 62 (1834/1835)
Oratorium in zwei Teilen
Text von Friedrich Rochlitz
Katharina Wollitz, Vera Borowsky-Reimann,
Henner Leyhe,
Ulrich Wand, Bach-Chor & Bach - Orchester Wiesbaden, Klaus Uwe Ludwig
Label: Melisma (2 CDs; May 2006)
Messe
op.54 + 3 Psalmen op.85
Label: Praga (October 1998)
Rundfunkchor Berlin, Michael
Glaeser,
Prague Philharmonic Choir; Jaroslav Brych.
Dietrich Knothe. Label: cpo (November 2006)
+ Mendelssohn: 3 Psalmen, op.78
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