Hans Knappertsbusch & Wiener Philharmoniker - Sonderkonzert of 1963 Wiener Festwochen (2nd Half)

[@stefanholz7166]

Der schiere Wahnsinn. Alle in Bestform. Größte künstlerische Wirkung und Perfektion ohne „wenn und aber“. Unerreicht heute und never find again. 🙏🏻💐👏🏻

[@andreasschierlinger7742]

Ganz großer Kunstgenuss! Und ein Erlebnis, Knappertsbusch dirigieren zu sehen. Eine Kostbarkeit!

[@eugeneferdinandvictordelac8803]

Perfect...

[@helmuthuber766]

Greindl ist unglaublich, Watson ist unglaublich wie auch Uhl. Man versteht jede einzelne Silbe, so deutlich und klar gesungen! Heute schlichtweg undenkbar! Ein historisches Juwel einer Gesangstechnik, die es schon lange nicht mehr gibt!

[@andreasslateffPersonalChannel]

Das ist noch die Gesangsschule von Elisabeth Radó: Klar, schwingend, wendig, tragfähig und verständlich bis in die letzte Reihe der Galerie. Bevor es üblich wurde, Vokale im Mund zu verformen, weil es dann angeblich schöner klänge.

[@gheorghefalcaru]

Highest Class! Thank you very much!

[@seancoxen3329]

Love the way Greindl rolls his R's with such relish!

[@marcap1000]

I like them all immensely. Wagner at his best. What a miracle it has survived.... Thanks a lot for sharing.

[@FrankB1001]

I hadn't seen this in a while. This is so echt Wien. OMG the cello at 9:55. The mood shift at 18:55, when Hunding approaches. And look at Uhl react to Watson at 1:01:01. This definitely has way more impulse and passion than Kna's Decca studio recording of Act I. Just adjust to Knappertsbusch Standard Time and let it wash over you. Too slow? Listen to it again. Of course Kna's detachment in the studio was the stuff of legends. While he was recording a Strauss waltz with the VPO, some of the orchestra took the repeat and some went ahead. Things quickly righted, but at the end of the take Kna asked "Was that all right?" The producer told him what happened and Kna responded, "Scheisse - do you think anyone will notice?"

[@allenhuug8650]

the cello and voice duet at 40:40 to 41:02 was also fantastic!

[@mckavitt13]

Every musician, including esp the singers, enunciating, articulating every syllable of feeling here. Knappertbusch was a great Wagnerian & he surrounded himself w the same.

[@tarakb7606]

Wonderful performance. Luckily it's available on DVD.

[@dejanstevanic5408]

Thank you.

[@Womuan]

Какие прекрасные голоса были.Чудно!

[@scottgrunow5201]

Claire Watson is magnificent here.

[@hrh2842]

Had always found CW to be a bland and uninteresting artist. Not in this! She was terrific. During this time period, Gundula Janowitz wore her hair in very much the same way as CW. They could be sisters!

[@rossmerchant8435]

Yeah I agree. Really engaging. I was transfixed by her "Der Männer sippe" monologue. Even though this is a concert performance, she creates a really sympathetic character. Also I love her dress lol

[@Grima21]

Uhl is amazing! Great voice!

[@extrasalt4595]

Hoomeyow!! A great performance.

[@aeischwa1]

Meraviglioso! E quando l'orchestra diventa di fuoco, Kna si alza! Fantastico!

[@wotan10950]

Watson has perfect diction.

[@karldelavigne8134]

Quite apart from the musical qualities of this performance, isn't it satisfying to see the performers beautifully attired? Knappertsbusch especially looks splendid in his bib-front shirt, wing collar, lapelled waistcoat and order.

[@fabriziogarzi9892]

Karl Delavigne, certo, e' bellissimo. Oggi solo sciatteria, mal canto e immensa presunzione.

[@noratroitino4978]

OMG! Josef Greindl is God. So many years without hearing such a voice....still waiting.

[@ColonelFredPuntridge]

Greindl is so great. And prolific. There's enough of him on KZbin to keep you busy listening for the rest of your life. Including, all Wagner's and Mozart's big-bass roles, and, composers you have never heard of, and, almost all the songs by Carl Loewe (a greater lieder-composer even than Schubert).

[@ColonelFredPuntridge]

@silver bud Imagine getting to take voice lessons from him!

[@duwir5959]

I always found Uhl underrated. I love his Solti Tristan. Kna as ever great!

[@FranzFischerSDG]

I heard Uhl with Gerhardt Jüsch in Fidelio in Seoul in 1962(?). What a giants.

[@pilouetmissiou]

I cantanti sono magnifici...adoro Claire Watson...

[@rickos1915]

Glorious!

[@lakkfatt2321]

wie ökonomisch sie mit ihren Stimmen haushalten!

[@1968KWT]

If only there were no opera productions, only opera in concert . . .

[@松本保雄-z2e]

本当に、すごい演奏をみることができました。ありがとうございます。

[@angelosilva4051]

Assolutamente mitici. Documento storico eccezzionale.

[@xaviersales]

¡Què maravilla! Muchissssimas gracias

[@wolfgangeder839]

For me Fritz Uhl was one of the greatest singer of Wagner in the 20th century. Unfortunately he didn't sing very much in Vienna as other Wagner-tenors like Windgassen and Beirer. I was told, Fritz Uhl was a star in America. I remember very good his Siegmund in november 1963 in Vienna. It was unforgettable. Thanks to him and thanks for the recording. Lg Wolfgang Eder, Vienna

[@hrh2842]

Don't remember Uhl ever singing in the US. Only Tristan on Nilsson (Solti?) recording.

[@moni-ja]

@@hrh2842 As far as I know, he did guest performances in Buenos Aires, Mexico City, and San Francisco

[@lohsemichael6398]

Bravo!

[@francescaemc2]

Grazie infinite!!!!!!!!!

[@caginn]

This is one of the main reasons I listen and love this music (and in general classical music) : involvement of the interpreter to the music with his actions on stage. Kna. (b. 1888) was 75 when this performance was given and just check his restlessness@1:05:15. That I love to see at Wand, Karajan, Kna., Celi., Bernstein and many many others conductor or soloist. Then I share the same joy with the lady who gives a standing ovation@1:08:29 [but last pages are way too dragging for my taste anyway]

[@raskolwernstream6091]

cagin Incoherent. And the last minutes of this act are not dragging but very exciting - tremendous conducting!

[@jacquesurlus3455]

Merci, Vielen Dank, grazie, thank you !!!

[@ColonelFredPuntridge]

Josef Greindl is so goddamm nasty here. Less than five minutes of singing, and he dominates the performance.

[@mckavitt13]

Theodore Shulman Hardly. Claire Watson is a dramatic foil for him & in gorgeous voice. She can hold a candle to almost anyone. See her Mozart Countess!

[@armerpoet]

Josef Greindl is a vocal power.

[@PeterToepfer]

Kleiner Fehler im Vorspann, Fritz Uhl ist nicht Siegfried, sondern... - Sieglinde singt es bei 1:03:34.

[@clavichord]

Fritz Uhl in voller Lautstärke...

[@waltermontani1621]

super!

[@karlheinzkirchmann6469]

Sehr schwierige aber gottseidank kurze Tenorpartie. Permanent hohe Mittelage, bedingt perfekte Technik und Sitz. Uhl echt super, fast eine Lehrstunde.

[@MusicMan-dv7jg]

The link to the first part Siegfried Idyll was blocked but I found it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iKXGZ6yAfMyNoc0

[@koroszo]

from 02:39

[@serrc1]

Uhl had beautiful low register (tief in des Busens Berge 44.23)

[@bonapona2251]

2:37

[@allenspencer6434]

Awesome i hear on lp but mush better here. thank you

[@Oneprice72]

De Pierris, hai ragione ... Uhl non e' solo legnoso, e' pure inerte e piatto!!! Mai sentito un Siegmund cosi' fiacco ... provati a sentire un Vinay, un Vickers, un Kaufmann (a patto che tu li conosca) e poi mi dirai ...

[@Francescomedardo]

Oneprice72 Anche tu, non dire stupidaggini

[@darioandreoli9258]

Esimio Oneprice, hai perso una magnifica occasione per tacere.

[@LeChevalierDuFeu]

true!

[@MASMusic1102]

What a joke reading the complaints below! Whatever shortcomings Uhl has, he's infinitely superior to your average run of the mill tenor who has attempted to sing this rep in the past 25 years, with an exception for Mr. Kaufmann whose voice is only an average sized instrument in the first place. AND even this orchestra can no longer play this music with this kind of passion and precision anymore. Could that be because there are no more conductors who know their stuff?

[@douglasmurphy9127]

agreed mas this is definitive the mighty knappertsbusch

[@davidrichardstanhope]

Agree absolutely. Three singers with every note clear and accurate. Today's failings have a lot to do with young voices not sufficiently trained for such strenuous roles. Vienna Phil loved Knappertsbusch because he hated rehearsing which, with an orchestra like this, produced great excitement in performance.

[@douglasmurphy9127]

dont know as much about the soloists but knappertsbusch was the greatest interpreter of wagner

[@joansebastiacolomer3163]

Barenboim or Thiemann don't know their stuff? Mor Uhl neither Watson ser so great singers

[@MonastraOperaSymphonyClassical]

Read the score... then...

[@bencopeland4514]

Uhl would make a great Mime

[@MonastraOperaSymphonyClassical]

¡Gran error en los títulos! Fritz Uhl... "Siegfried" !!!!

[@chrisweigl5116]

siegmund not siegfried ,amigo

[@MonastraOperaSymphonyClassical]

Yes! But the main titles!

[@MonastraOperaSymphonyClassical]

Hai veramente raggione. Uhl non è per niente un cantante Wagneriano come siamo acostumati. Ma niente da dire: che Uhl sa cantare, sa cantare benissimo. Quello che non piacce tanto, è il suo colore assai brillante di tenori lirico, e non tanto di tenore eroico.

[@PV-xh1mg]

Magnificent singers. Fritz is great...unfortunately he cracked on the final Walsungen...likely got too excited...who wouldn't?

[@serrc1]

and is there a hint of a smile on Watson's face when Fritz cracks?

[@hrh2842]

@@serrc1 No. You are a mischevious soul, aren't you? -:)

[@hrh2842]

That very slight bobble (A genuine crack would have been disastrous.) on the High-A came and went in an instant. That's what having a rock solid vocal technique does.

[@seanmchugh298]

Folks, Uhl is clearly not dramatically secure and his ideas about projecting the role get the better of him and more disciplined musicality- there is waywardness instead of Wagner's inspiration speaking for itself. Watson is pretty solid with her wonderful tone and Knap has the paragraphing and measure of the music's inevitable sweep and monstrous power.

[@PV-xh1mg]

Sean McHugh ...oh please...so full of yourself...

[@hrh2842]

@@PV-xh1mg-:)

[@manuelcerqueranogales5215]

Personalmente, me gusta más risanek, como sieglinde,el no lo conocía,esta más metido en el papel ,por lo demás es un wagner magnifico.

[@luigidepierris1354]

Dear Oneprice72, How can you dare criticizing Fritz Uhl? "Assai legnoso"??? What a joke! Go back listening to Operetta or to the songs of the Sanremo festival and do not venture into something you would never be able to understand!

[@richardlevin9907]

Wonderful. But Uhl is no Vickers, and today Kauffman and Skelton are better.

[@hrh2842]

Uhl was always Uhl, which was plenty good enough. Each artist brings different strengths to their art and we are privileged to experience their gifts. Uninformed comparisons are distasteful.

[@wotan10950]

Richard Levin I’ve seen both Kaufmann and Skelton onstage as Siegmund, and I agree - riveting. I’ve seen them in other successful roles too. Also saw Vickers in many of his great roles. So intense, a true artist. But I like Kaufmann’s actual sound much better.

[@Oneprice72]

Eccellente si, peccato la presenza di Fritz Uhl assai legnoso!

[@Francescomedardo]

Oneprice72 non dire stupidaggini!

[@パダツー]

このグラインドルの機動力のあるバストロの如き声よ、、、凄い、凄すぎる！！！

[@advokata]

Great job Kna. Couldn't you just go any slower?

[@パダツー]

クレアワトソンて、こんなスケールのでかい 声だったのか。ブラヴォー！

[@sinuc]

für die damalige Zeit.. aber diese Interpretation ist etwas veraltet.

[@feuersalamander8331]

Das finde ich nicht. Etwas veraltet sind eher die Interpretationen aus den dreißiger Jahren. So eindimensional Athletisch.

[@ilkodimov4307]

To bad , there down't tell you even the composer !

[@hrh2842]

I think it's either Andrew Lloyd Webber or John Q Adams.

[@yusukeundisolde]

年収いくらだろう

[@AP-dd3xp]

Kna is just too slow as usual, my god.