BaL 7.07.18 - Mozart: Don Giovanni

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I've been trawling the web in order to find a reasonably priced CD set of the 1950 WF performance. There are several used copies on Amazon.com, but these are not eligible for delivery to the UK.

[aeolium]

There's this pre-owned one on ebay:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Don-Giovanni-Furtwangler-Vienna-Po-Gobbi-Welitsch-CD-2005/382479138478?epid=1005431612&hash=item590d887eae:g:eLMAAOSwJ-pbEahj

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

There's this pre-owned one on ebay:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Don-Giova...MAAOSwJ-pbEahj

[Barbirollians]

MY 1950 performance with Furtwangler , Gobbi et al is on EMI not DG.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Yes, that does appear to be the case.

And, thanks to aeoleum, I've now ordered it at a super-bargain price.

[Once Was 4]

Just for clarity, I think there are actually four different recordings of Don Giovanni by Furtwängler, all from the Salzburg Festival:

1) The 1950 live one with Gobbi, Welitsch et al
2) The 1953 live one with Siepi, Grümmer, Edelmann, Schwarzkopf et al
3) The 1954 live one with a virtually identical cast to 1953, apart from Ernster as the Commendatore
4) The Paul Czinner film in 1954 based on the 1954 production, with virtually identical cast to (3) apart from Lisa della Casa as Elvira instead of Schwarzkopf

I don't expect any of them to be given more than the briefest of mentions by NK next week, btw.

Have a look at this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s1OFwAlMMw

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Have a look at this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s1OFwAlMMw

- that's the one mentioned in #11 and aeolie's #24. Smashing!

[aeolium]

My first exposure to the music of Don Giovanni was in the Furtwängler 1950 version, on an execrable-sounding Olympia set of LPs, which had been recommended to me by John Hunt in his London shop (I forget the name). Despite the audience noise, and the recording blips, I thought it was among the most exciting music I had ever heard - especially the Introduzione to Act 1, and the shattering climax to Act 2, with the unearthly tones of the Commendatore. Although I have heard much better recorded versions since, with much clearer detail and more precise singing, I still retain a special affection for that WF version.

[french frank]

Only as many as necessary.

Don't think your efforts go unappreciated, ferney

[vinteuil]

Don't think your efforts go unappreciated, ferney

[ his joke was subtler and more deft than a clunky one I was dreaming up... ]

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Have a look at this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s1OFwAlMMw

Oh WOW!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Oh WOW!

And there's more where that came from:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mozart-Don-Giovanni-Vienna-Furtwangler/dp/B00005ONMJ

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

And there's more where that came from:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mozart-Don-.../dp/B00005ONMJ

Steady on Ferney. If we carry on like this, I could end up with all WF's Don Giovannis before the BaL even begins.

[visualnickmos]

Steady on Ferney. If we carry on like this, I could end up with all WF's Don Giovannis before the BaL even begins.

… and then find that they all get slated!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

… and then find that they all get slated!

That wouldn't upset me at all.