Carl Maria von Weber: Abu Hassan

Kurt Moll (Performer), Carl Maria von Weber (Composer), Wolfgang Sawallisch (Conductor), Bavarian State Opera Orchestra (Orchestra), Edda Moser (Performer), Nicolai Gedda (Performer)

Product Details

• Performer: Kurt Moll, Edda Moser, Nicolai Gedda
• Orchestra: Bavarian State Opera Orchestra
• Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch
• Composer: Carl Maria von Weber
• Audio CD (June 23, 1998)
• SPARS Code: ADD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Cpo Records
• ASIN: B0000061JX
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #477,703 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Abu Hassan, opera, J. 106: Overture

2. Abu Hassan, opera, J. 106: Liebes Weibchen, reiche Wein

3. Abu Hassan, opera, J. 106: Dialogue

4. Abu Hassan, opera, J. 106: Was nun zu machen

5. Abu Hassan, opera, J. 106: Dialogue

6. Abu Hassan, opera, J. 106: Geld! Geld! Geld!

7. Abu Hassan, opera, J. 106: Dialogue

8. Abu Hassan, opera, J. 106: Tränen sollst du nicht vergießen

9. Abu Hassan, opera, J. 106: Dialogue

10. Abu Hassan, opera, J. 106: Wird Philomele trauern

11. Abu Hassan, opera, J. 106: Dialogue

12. Abu Hassan, opera, J. 106: Siehst du diese große Menge

13. Abu Hassan, opera, J. 106: Dialogue

14. Abu Hassan, opera, J. 106: Ich such' ind such' in allen Ecken

15. Abu Hassan, opera, J. 106: Dialogue

16. Abu Hassan, opera, J. 106: Hier liegt, welch' martervolles Los

17. Abu Hassan, opera, J. 106: Dialogue

18. Abu Hassan, opera, J. 106: Dialogue/Heil ist dem Haus beschieden

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars How to get yourself out of debt.............., September 13, 2007

By	Sam "Tanis Svea Somerville" (Seahurst, Washington) - See all my reviews

Written in 1810, this frothy little farce reflects the then-current fashion for "Turkish" themes. The overture is fizzingly brilliant, leading to a sequence of ten numbers, only three of them arias, including two for Abu Hassan's wife, Fatime. The plot involves the machinations of Abu Hassan to get himself out of debt, with the Caliph (one of the three speaking roles) finally awarding him a thousand gold pieces. Sawallisch conducts a brilliant performance, with Nicolai Gedda in the title role pointing his music lightly, with Edda Moser vibrantly as his wife, and with Kurt Moll superb as the grasping money lender, Omar.
This come with first rate sound, engineered in 1975 by an EMI-Electrola team.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A witty singspiel, June 13, 2000

By	Eytan Klausner (Chicagoland area) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This short (less than 48 minutes) and magnificent singspiel (a singsiel can roughly be defined as a german operetta) is one of the best of its kind. The performance on this CD is dazzling and all three soloists are superb. The sound (1975 recording) is very good, but there is no libretto. If you want to find good music of Weber who is one of the most important and influential German composers of the romantic era (actually he Mendelssohn was the first German romantic composer), you will probably want to get before or after you get this CD his masterpeace, Der Freischutz. A strong recommendation is Harnoncourt's on Teldec. END