'Der Freischütz' (or 'The Free Hunters') is Weber's most performed opera, with music rich in hunting horn melodies and horse-driven rhythms. At first dark and ominous, then breakneck and turbulent, ...
Issued to celebrate the 90th birthday of Carlo-Maria Giulini this month, these discs from BBC Legends vividly capture the magic of this dedicated conductor in London performances he gave in the 1960s ...
The overture to Carl Maria von Weber’s opera “Der Freischütz” (“The Marksman”) calls up the dusky shadows and sylvan aromas of the German hinterland. It trumpets the glory of an autumn day spent ...
Maximilian Schmitt/Polina Pasztircsák/Max Urlacher/Freiburg Baroque O/René Jacobs (Harmonia Mundi, two CDs) A studio-made recording of the 1821 German opera that influenced generations of composers ...
Abu Hassan, Movements: Overture Howard Griffiths, Conductor WDR Symphony Orchestra Carl Maria von Weber, Composer Euryanthe, Movements: Overture WDR Symphony Orchestra Howard Griffiths, Conductor Carl ...
Der Freischütz is a work on which young German opera conductors cut their teeth and to which old German conductors return with deep affection. Karl Elmendorff (1944), Furtwängler (1954), Erich Kleiber ...
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