Nicolai Gedda - greatest recordings

[Dave2002]

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[makropulos]

Go to Edit, and select Go Advanced.

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Thanks Dave2002. I've tried that, and it appeared just as you said it should, but after all that I'm not sure the subject line has changed...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Thanks Dave2002. I've tried that, and it appeared just as you said it should, but after all that I'm not sure the subject line has changed...

It has - and it is excellent news that this fine Musician is still alive - but "Nicolai Gedda - Amended" doesn't sound quite ... well ... y'know ...

[Barbirollians]

I suggest it is changed to Nicolai Gedda his greatest recordings and then we can discuss that happy topic

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I suggest it is changed to Nicolai Gedda his greatest recordings and then we can discuss that happy topic

[Beef Oven!]

I suggest it is changed to Nicolai Gedda his greatest recordings and then we can discuss that happy topic

Or maybe Nicolai Gedda, his greatest performances.

[makropulos]

I suggest it is changed to Nicolai Gedda his greatest recordings and then we can discuss that happy topic

What a good idea. I'd like to suggest a few: Merry Widow (with Matacic), Bohème (with Schippers), Verdi Requiem with Giulini (EMI) and yes, Gerontius with Boult, which for all its quirks is a most absorbing account. There are so many more...

Another is the live 1975 Faust from Paris, with Mackerras conducting which is on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4JjoDcaJGw.
In the booklet for the Gedda ICON box, Mackerras recalled that at the rehearsals for Faust, Gedda "spoke English to me, Italian to Mirella Freni (as Marguérite), Finnish to Tom Krause, who was singing Valentin, Russian to Nicolai Ghiaurov who was Mephisto and French to all the resident musicians."

[Bryn]

Well, given the circumstances, it's down from the shelf for his recording of a certain diary. Not perhaps his finest hour, but ...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

He features in so many legendary EMI recordings - but that Boheme makropulos mentions is a particular favourite: one of the few "Classical" LPs that my parents owned (highlights only) to this day it is his singing, rather than some more "idiomatic" versions, that I prefer to hear. (Pretty damn good in Turandot, too ... but the list could go on and on ... is there a duff studio recording in the whole of his discography?)

[gurnemanz]

What a good idea. I'd like to suggest a few: Merry Widow (with Matacic), Bohème (with Schippers), Verdi Requiem with Giulini (EMI) and yes, Gerontius with Boult, which for all its quirks is a most absorbing account. There are so many more...

Another is the live 1975 Faust from Paris, with Mackerras conducting which is on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4JjoDcaJGw.
In the booklet for the Gedda ICON box, Mackerras recalled that at the rehearsals for Faust, Gedda "spoke English to me, Italian to Mirella Freni (as Marguérite), Finnish to Tom Krause, who was singing Valentin, Russian to Nicolai Ghiaurov who was Mephisto and French to all the resident musicians."

That Icon Box is terrific evidence of his versatility.

[french frank]

It has - and it is excellent news that this fine Musician is still alive - but "Nicolai Gedda - Amended" doesn't sound quite ... well ... y'know ...

Changed now - I wanted to draw people's attention to the update :-)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

[Richard Tarleton]

He is on the first ever complete opera set I bought in 1969 (and still have), Flotow's "Marta", where he is part of the star quartet that also includes Anneliese Rothenberger (d. 2010), Brigitte Fassbaender and Hermann Prey, cond. Robert Heger. This lovely opera, almost never performed these days, was also a favourite of one of our friends on the old boards, smittims I think, we had a thread about it once.

I only ever saw one live performance, with piano, at the London Collegiate Theatre in the mid '60s. I was taken by my opera buff great aunt. She was a doctor, and in the interval introduced me to a large Austrian lady who reminisced volubly about having seen it in Vienna and complained about the cuts they'd made for this performance. She turned out to be Mrs Ernest Jones, the widow of Sigmund Freud's collaborator and biographer Ernest Jones - so another one for the Six Degrees of Separation thread I suppose

Here's Gedda singing the famous tenor aria from the opera, Ach so fromm, often sung in Italian (M'appari) by Italianate tenors from Caruso onwards. The other most famous number from the opera is of course Flotow's take on The Last Rose of Summer, which makes several appearances in the course of the, entirely plausible , plot.

[ahinton]

Whilst it is indeed a relief to be assured that this was the Mark Twain moment referred to earlier, the question remains as to how the information got onto that blog in the first place, only to be replaced with http://slippedisc.com/2015/05/nicola...lipped+Disc%29 .

[Barbirollians]

His Pinkerton with Callas is a particular favourite performance for me .