Mozart: The Magic Flute (Die Zauberfloete) |  | Creators: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Wilhelm Furtwaengler, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Edith Oravez, Elisabeth Hoengen, Gertrud Grob-prandl, Hermann Gallos, Irmgard Seefried, Josef Greindl, Karl Donch, Karl Schmitt-walter, Paul Schoeffler, Peter Klein, Sieglinde Wagner, Walther Ludwig, Wilma Lipp
Label: Opera D'oro
Category: Music
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 403648
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 3
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Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 723724553729
EAN: 0723724553729
ASIN: B00009N1VY
Release Date: June 3, 2003
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Overture | | • | Zu Hilfe! Zu Hilfe! | | • | Der Vogelfanger Bin Ich Ja | | • | Dies Bildnis Ist Bezaubernd Schon | | • | O Zittre Nicht, Mein Lieber Sohn! | | • | Hm, Hm, Hm Hm! | | • | Du Feines Taubchen, Nur Herein! | | • | Bei Mannern, Welche Liebe Fuhlen |
Disc 2
| • | Zum Ziele Fuhrt Dich Diese Bahn | | • | Schnelle Fusse, Rascher Mut | | • | March Of The Priests | | • | O Isis Und Osiris | | • | Eine Schreckliche Nacht! | | • | Bewahret Euch Vor Weibertucken | | • | Heil Dir, Jungling! | | • | Der Holle Rache | | • | In Diesen Heil'gen Hallen |
Disc 3
| • | Hier Seid Ihr Euch Beide Allein Uberlassen | | • | Ach, Ich Fuhl's | | • | O Isis Und Osiris, Welche Wonne! | | • | Soll Ich Dich, Teurer, Nicht Mehr Sehn? | | • | Ein Madchen Oder Weibchen | | • | Bald Prangt, Den Morgen Zu Verkunden | | • | Der, Welcher Wandelt Diese Strasse | | • | Tamino Mein! | | • | Papagena! Papagena! Papagena! | | • | Nur Stille, Stille, Stille! |
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| Customer Reviews:
 Good conducting, mediocre singing, poor sound, look elsewhere. July 6, 2008
Philip S. Griffey (Bainbridge I. WA USA)
This recording is a well conducted performance in mediocre sound; it was a live performance broadcast from Salzburg on July 27, 1949. Furtwangler brings little or none of the magic of his Beethoven to the Mozart. Most of the singing is undistinguished. The better singers (Lipp and Seefried) can be heard elsewhere to better effect.
If you want every Furtwangler recording, this is one. There is another Furtwangler Flute on EMI. I have not heard it, but with Dermota and Kunz in the male roles, and the same women in the female roles, it should be head and shoulders above this performance.
 A very awesome performance May 8, 2007
Theodore Shulman (NYC)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The majestic moments are best in this live performance of DIE ZAUBERFLOTE. Sarastro's music, for instance. He is played by Josef Greindl at the peak of his powers, before he got bored with the role. (You get to hear him speak, as well as sing, and his spoken address to the priests at the beginning of Act II is worth the price of admission alone.) Also the Chorus of Priests. And of course the fugue-and-quartet in the second act finale.
The funny music--by which I mean, Papageno's music--is conducted a little too heavily for my taste. But Karl Schmitt-Walter is great in the spoken parts.
This performance features several impressive celebrity singers in small roles. Gertrud Grob-Prandl, the mighty Wagner-soprano famous as the leading Brunhilde of her day, appears as the first of the three ladies, with a penetrating sound that dominates her ensembles, especially the second-act quintet ("Wie, wie, wie...!") Two future legends, Ernst Haeflinger and Hermann Uhde, play the two Geharnischters. And Paul Schoffler, whose name later became synonymous with Hans Sachs, plays the Sprecher.
Furtwangler's conducting, while heavy, is very sensitive to the text. He's not afraid to employ subtle changes in tempo from phrase to phrase. This makes this a difficult recording to sing along with but absorbing to listen to.
One other point: If you happen to be a teacher of German, the cast in this performance is almost entirely German. You can teach native-like intonation and elocution with it.
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