Meistersinger von Nürnberg (CD): Rudolf Kempe, Ferdinand Frantz, Gottlob Frick, Elisabeth Grümmer, Gerhard Unger, Hermann Prey
Conductor: Rudolf Kempe
Hans Sachs: Ferdinand Frantz
Veit Pogner: Gottlob
Frick
Kunz Vogelgesang: Horst Wilhelm
Konrad Nachtigall: Walter Stoll
Sixtus
Beckmesser: Benno Kusche
Fritz Kothner: Gustav Neidlinger
Balthasar Zorn: Manfred Schmidt
Ulrich Eisslinger: Leopold Clam
Augustin Moser: Herold
Kraus
Hermann Ortel: Robert Koffmane
Hans Schwarz: Anton Metternich
Hans
Foltz: Hanns Pick
Walther von Stolzing: Rudolf Schock
Eva: Elisabeth Grümmer
Magdalene: Marga Höffgen
David: Gerhard Unger
Ein Nachtwächter: Hermann Prey
Berliner Philharmoniker
Chöre der Deutschen Oper Berlin, der Berliner Staatsoper und St. Hedwigs-Kathedrale, Berlin
Studio recording in mono 19 June, 1956
Reviews
"This famous set, its reissue long awaited finally
makes its re-entry into the catalogue [...] Kempe's interpretation remains
his version's main glory, a wonderfully consistent, life-enhancing view
of the piece, unexaggerated in tempo, all of a piece structurally — just
as it used to be at Covent Garden. No other conductor on disc, not even
Karajan, surpasses Kempe in the long view, in generosity of phrasing, subtlety
or rubato, or in a sharp eye for instrumental detail. In particular, the
whole of Act 3, from Eva's entrance, after all the heart of the work, sweeps
forward with an inevitability of pulse and a depth of feeling that warm
the heart."
Alan Blyth, Gramophone [2/1993]
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