Salome

R. Strauss (Artist), Jones (Artist), Bohm (Artist), Hamburg State Opera (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 16, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Polygram Records
• ASIN: B000001GMN
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #554,580 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #6 in Music > Classical > Opera & Vocal > Divas > Jones, Gwyneth

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Scene One: Wie schon ist die Prinzessin Salome heute nacht! - Wieslaw Ochman/Ursula Boese/Kurt Moll/Carl Schultz

2. Scene One: Nach mir wird Einer kommen - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau/Carl Schultz/Kurt Moll/Franz Grundheber/Wieslaw Ochman/Ursula Boese

3. Scene Two: Ich will nicht bleiben. Ich kann nicht bleiben - Gwyneth Jones/Ursula Boese

4. Scene Two: Siehe, der Herr ist gekommen - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau/Gwyneth Jones/Carl Schultz/Wieslaw Ochman/Willy Hartmann/Kurt Moll

5. Scene Two: Jauchze nicht, du Land Palastina - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau/Gwyneth Jones/Carl Schultz/Kurt Moll/Ursula Boese/Wieslaw Ochman

6. Scene Two: Laßt den Propheten herauskommen - Wieslaw Ochman/Gwyneth Jones

7. Scene Three: Wo ist er, dessen Sundenbecher jetzt voll ist? - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau/Gwyneth Jones/Wieslaw Ochman

8. Scene Three: Er ist schrecklich. Er ist Wirklich schrecklich! - Gwyneth Jones/Wieslaw Ochman

9. Scene Three: Wer ist dies Weib, das mich ansieht? - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau/Gwyneth Jones/Wieslaw Ochman

10. Scene Three: Jochanaan! Ich bin verliebt in deinen Leib - Gwyneth Jones/Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

See all 22 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Scene Four: Tanz fur mich, Salome - Richard Cassilly/Mignon Dunn/Gwyneth Jones/Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

2. Scene Four: Salomes Tanz der sieben Schleier - Hamburg St Opr Orch/Karl Bohm

3. Scene Four: Ah! Herrlich! Wundervoll, wundervoll! - Richard Cassilly/Gwyneth Jones/Mignon Dunn

4. Scene Four: Salome, ich beschwore dich - Richard Cassilly/Gwyneth Jones/Mignon Dunn

5. Scene Four: Salome, bedenk, was du tun willst - Richard Cassilly/Gwyneth Jones/Peter Haage/Jurgen Forster/Kurt Marchner/Heinz Kruse...

6. Scene Four: Gib mir den Kopf des Jochanaan! - Gwyneth Jones/Richard Cassilly/Mignon Dunn

7. Scene Four: Es ist kein Laut zu vernehmen - Gwyneth Jones

8. Scene Four: Ah! Du wolltest mich nicht deinen Mund kussen lassen, Jochanaan - Gwyneth Jones

9. Scene Four: Sie ist ein Ungeheuer, deine Tochter - Richard Cassilly/Mignon Dunn

10. Scene Four: Ah! Ich habe deinen Mund gekußt, Jochnanaan - Gwyneth Jones/Richard Cassilly

Customer Reviews

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Seduction on Fire, February 1, 2003

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jonludwig (Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Salome (Audio CD)

I could not believe that this recording of Salome had no reviews. People languish over the awful Behrens version with the worst operatic conductor of all time (Karajan), and ignore this version. Bohm leads this live recording which is truly staggering in its intensity, oh to have been present at the performance.

Bohm, as always, allows the music to breath to delve into the many timbres and colours, and yet always keeps the tensions at a feverish pitch. However he dosen't let the orchestra predominate completely by allowing the equal partnership between voices and orchesta. The clarity of every word is audible, a rare feet in Salome.

Yet this opera would not survive without a cast par equals. Why should this recording be worthy of a mention, well, Gwyneth Jones!! A voice of tremendous power, unfailing stamina, and yet a youthfulness (the recording is from 1970). The voice dosen't have the steeliness of Nilsson or the vile whimper of Behrens. She is seductive and her voice is in amazing form. Yet when you realise that this recording was not recorded a little at a time but in one evening you realise what an amazing artist she is. Truthfully she is no Ljuba Welitsch (but who is), but her performance is completely different and yet equally valid and totally spine tingling.

Furthermore the performance dosen't end their. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau is a wonderful Jochanaan, his voice is darker than usually and as always he gives an incisive approach. Richard Cassilly play a wonderful Herodes showing how creepy this king is. Although a truly great performance is given by Mignon Dunn as Herodias truly showing the many colours of her voice.

This is a trully magnificent performance worthy of more notice. It has and always remains my belief that a live performance shows what opera is trully about. This performances has all the protaganists become the characters. Magnificent! Brava Dame Gwyneth Jones! Bravo Maestro Bohm!!

10 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent but not great!, August 20, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Salome (Audio CD)

It puzzles me that anyone would want to buy this Salome when 2 of Leonie Rysanek's Salome are available. If you want Bohm, go for his set with Rysanek under RCA. That 1972 performance was lauded to the skies at its premier - utterly thrilling, Rysanek's firm, expansive and stunning voice ringing out gloriously at the climaxes. Her voice, esp in the upper register, has this incomparable floating quality that made her famous. And in Superb Stereo too!! Gywneth Jones is excellent. But her performance will not go into the hall of legendary operatic fame. Good as a second set. Inadequate as a first set.