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Beethoven: Fidelio (Mezzo-Soprano Christa Ludwig, Tenor Jon Vickers, Basses Gottlob Frick and Walter Berry; the Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Otto Klemperer; Angel, 3 LPs). An easy-breathing, expansive performance notable for the clarity of its orchestral effects. There are more dramatic Fidelias but none with quite the same air of authority that Klemperer musters here. Mezzo Ludwig's singing is pure, true and warm; she creates a Leonora that is consistently moving and everywhere credible...
...vulgar, Western riot music." decreed the Culture cubes. And the songwriters got their orders: Give us the stuff of social significance. So Leipzig's Rene Dubianski, one of East Germany's more enterprising pop composers, turned out a sort of double-time waltz. Dance Instructors Helmut and Christa Seifert fitted Dubianski's efforts with some quickstep choreography, and the comrades from the Culture Ministry announced a "Soviet innovation...
...earlier, lusher and more lyrical Richard Strauss. Angel has a superb new Rosenkavalier (on 4 LPs). Strauss's swirling, silvery tunes never sounded better. Herbert von Karajan, conducting London's Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus, is pliant and powerful; Singers Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Teresa Stich-Randall and Christa Ludwig are uniformly excellent. They invest their climactic closing trio with even more than its usual aching grandeur, while Otto Edelmann's Baron Ochs combines authority with the required asininity...
...with the King of Prussia. The feud was not patched up until years later when the Hanoverian prince, Ernst August. Duke of Brunswick, married the daughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II. The third child (and first daughter) of that marriage was Frederika Louise Thyra Victoria Margarita Sophia Olga Cecilia Isabella Christa, Princess of Hanover, Great Britain and Ireland, Duchess of Brunswick and Liineburg, and present Queen of Greece. She was born on April 18, 1917 in the Hanoverian fortress of Blankenburg, in a united Prussian Germany about to go down to defeat...
...Christa Rosenberger...