Die Csárdásfürstin (The Gypsy Princess) is one of the pinnacles of Viennese operetta and perhaps the only major entry in the genre to debut in the midst of World War I. Yvonne Kenny, Michael Roider, and the Slovak Philharmonic Choir and Radio Symphony Orchestra under legendary operetta specialist Richard Bonynge combine their efforts in this well-realized Naxos release of Imre Kálmán's Die Csárdásfürstin. The singing all around is very good, and the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra pulls through this bouncy and deceptively ...
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Die Csárdásfürstin (The Gypsy Princess) is one of the pinnacles of Viennese operetta and perhaps the only major entry in the genre to debut in the midst of World War I. Yvonne Kenny, Michael Roider, and the Slovak Philharmonic Choir and Radio Symphony Orchestra under legendary operetta specialist Richard Bonynge combine their efforts in this well-realized Naxos release of Imre Kálmán's Die Csárdásfürstin. The singing all around is very good, and the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra pulls through this bouncy and deceptively difficult score admirably, though it occasionally shows signs of being winded and weary at the ends of particularly long scenes. Complete recordings of Die Csárdásfürstin are not exactly thick on the ground, at least in non-German speaking countries. Yet there have been some, at least going back to an early stereo LP issued on the American label Period in 1958. In the CD era, it is possible, with some trimming, to squeeze a representative Die Csárdásfürstin onto a single disc. Here,...
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