Franz Schmidt (1874-1939)
NOTRE DAME (1914)
Romantic Opera in 2 Acts
Jones, King, Laubenthal, Moll
Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Christof Perick, conductor
Capriccio Digital 10 248/9 (stereo)
Recorded Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin-Dahlem, August 1988
Published 1989
Currently out-of-print
FLACs, cuesheets, logs, scans (including full booklet/German-English libretto)
Franz Schmidt was a fascinating character, who famously advised Herbert von Karajan he had no future in conducting. Schmidt was the principal cellist with the Vienna Philharmonic, and studied composition with Bruckner. One reviewer said Notre Dame's "sound-world runs from Wagner and Bruckner to Mahler, Strauss and Korngold. Oddly, it also brings Respighi to mind...a late-flowering hot-house bloom".
Hartmut Welker (The Archdeacon of Notre Dame)
Kurt Moll (Quasimodo)
James King (Phoebus)
Horst R. Laubenthal (Gringoire)
Gwyneth Jones (Esmeralda)
Kaja Borris (Old Falourdel)
Hans Helm (An officer)
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Chor der St.-Hedwigs-Kathedrale
Roland Bader, chorus master
RIAS-Kammerchor
Marcus Creed, chorus master
Andreas Juffinger, organ
Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Christof Perick, conductor
NOTRE DAME (1914)
Romantic Opera in 2 Acts
Jones, King, Laubenthal, Moll
Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Christof Perick, conductor
Capriccio Digital 10 248/9 (stereo)
Recorded Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin-Dahlem, August 1988
Published 1989
Currently out-of-print
FLACs, cuesheets, logs, scans (including full booklet/German-English libretto)
Franz Schmidt was a fascinating character, who famously advised Herbert von Karajan he had no future in conducting. Schmidt was the principal cellist with the Vienna Philharmonic, and studied composition with Bruckner. One reviewer said Notre Dame's "sound-world runs from Wagner and Bruckner to Mahler, Strauss and Korngold. Oddly, it also brings Respighi to mind...a late-flowering hot-house bloom".
Hartmut Welker (The Archdeacon of Notre Dame)
Kurt Moll (Quasimodo)
James King (Phoebus)
Horst R. Laubenthal (Gringoire)
Gwyneth Jones (Esmeralda)
Kaja Borris (Old Falourdel)
Hans Helm (An officer)
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Chor der St.-Hedwigs-KathedraleRoland Bader, chorus master
RIAS-Kammerchor
Marcus Creed, chorus master
Andreas Juffinger, organ
Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Christof Perick, conductor
