Cat No:
VKJK2207
Release Date: 07 February 2025
Label: Querstand
Packaging Type: Box Set
No of Units: 5
Barcode: 4025796022070
Composer/Series: Die Wiederentdeckte Stimme
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Description
The voice of the Dessau heroic tenor Kammersanger Dr Horst Wolf (1894-1980) is considered "lost". No professional recordings of this singer are known today, who was associated with the Dessau Theater for over a quarter of a century, of which he became an honorary member when he retired in 1957, and who sang at the state operas in Dresden, Munich, Berlin and Vienna as well as at almost all major opera houses in Germany, but also abroad. There are essentially two reasons for this gap in the records: firstly, he had an aversion to recordings in the "sterile" studio throughout his life and secondly, the radio recordings with his voice have been lost.
Nevertheless, at the presentation of his memoirs under the title "The Wolf's Tale" in 2020 in the Marienkirche in Dessau, a recording was presented: Scene and Romance of Richard from "A Masked Ball" by Giuseppe Verdi. The sound of the voice of the heroic tenor Dr. Horst Wolf was rightly considered a minor sensation at the time. It is no less sensational that, in addition to this piece, which has been preserved through a chain of coincidences, the present 5-CD box contains numerous recordings of the singer from the 1950s.
In the Dessau Theater, he had excerpts from operas in which he took part, mostly Wagner operas, recorded. Most of the tapes were destroyed in a house fire in January 1980, but several dozen were salvaged from the burned-out ruins. However, the tapes had suffered considerable fire, soot and water damage. Many of these damaged tapes, which are over half a century old, could not be saved. But at least some of them have now been restored and made audible in a self-sacrificing, subtle restoration work by Christian Zwarg, Berlin.
Now available on a unique 5CD set at a special price are the restored recordings. In addition to Dr. Horst Wolf, other singers from the Dessau Theater can be heard in them, including many whose voices are rarely or not at all available on recordings. The booklet provides the historical context and also explains the procedure for the difficult restoration. -
Tracklisting
- 1. Verdi: Ein Maskenball
- 2. Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
- 3. Tristan und Isolde
- 1. Wagner: Tannhauser
- 1. Wagner: Die Walkure
- 2. Gotterdammerung
- 3. Lohengrin
- 1. Wagner: Der fliegende Hollander
- 2. Parsifal
- 3. Rienzi
- 4. Verdi: Aida
- 1. Puccini: Tosca
- 2. D'Albert: Tiefland
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Disc 2
Disc 3
Disc 4
Disc 5
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Die Wiederentdeckte Stimme
Horst Wolf
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Mollner Klanggeschichte
Pieter van Dijk
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Wolf: Italienisches Liederbuch
Mirella Hagen, Tobias Berndt, Frank-Immo Zichner
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Lieber Goldberg: Aria with various variations BWV 988
Mechthild Winter
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Madonna Mia: Italian Monodies and Organ Works of the...
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Johannes Brahms In Strabburg
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Desmarets & Campra : Iphigenie en Tauride
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Vilem Blodek - In The Well
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George Frideric Handel: Brockes Passion
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Richard Strauss: Arabella
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Mitridate, re di Ponto
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Jules Massenet: Griselidis
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Ferruccio Busoni: Doktor Faust
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Jules Emile Frederic Massenet: Herodiade
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