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ntonin Dvorák 1841-1904 Rudolf Schock singt Leos Janacek, Bedrich Smetana, Antonin Dvorak und Oskar Nedbal.
Tschechische composers gehört the musical world of Rudolf Schock on, and the performance of a Czech opera marks the beginning of his versatile and long-time career record. Electrola / HMV-Pr 
oduzent Walter Legge made - after a tip - April 1946 specifically a detour via Hannover to the 30-year old Rudolf Schock as 'Hans (Jenik)' in 'Prodoná Nevesta (The Bartered Bride) ' of Bedrich Smetana hear (1824-1884 ze foto ) . Immediately after the performance of its mandated Legge Electrola staff, to get to the location (see 'RS sings Bizet' ). 
Both on Emi (record: 1955) and on € disc (recording: 1963) are CDs of highlights from the 'Bartered Bride' with Rudolf Schock available. In due time I hope to come back in detail to Smetana and his beleaguered 'bride' .
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n Leos Janacek (1854-1928) sang Rudolf Schock in 1938 on 'State Theater Braunschweig' the role of 'Jaca Klemen' , the violent lover of 'Jenufa (Její pastorkyna: Your foster child)'. my knowledge there are no recordings of this opera with shock. In 1966, Rudolf Schock joined as Boleslaw Baranski ('Bolo') in the inclusion of a short version of the operetta 'Polská Krev (Polish Blood)' by 
Oskar Nedbal (1874-1930 ) on. For mysterious reasons, or because you had the 'Poland blood' may simply be overlooked, published € disc recording to CD. Only 
the 'Hamburger Archive for singing ' recently produced their own CD copies of the ' Polenblut '-LP, which can be ordered from the archive. Oskar Nedbal was a music student of Antonin Dvorak, with whom he remained a lifetime friend. Also, I will come back to him in the future like for 'Polenblut' is too interesting to be overlooked again.
Antonin DVORAK (1841-1904)
grows, the small Antonin - surrounded by butchers - in a hostel on the Vltava river: the grandfather's butcher, the father is Fleischer, and Antonin and The four brothers are also Fleischer: "As the only all composers, he was able to slaughter a cow, to kill and to make the meat fillets and sausage (Uwe Kraemer - Philips Classic Productions, 1993). From the village schoolmaster (so no teacher deserves a statue?) He learns to play the violin, and soon he strokes funny straight on, if there is dancing in the family inn. Antonin perfected himself in the music that makes sure - in his officially bilingual, speaking to predominantly native Bohemia Czech - that he learns to speak better German, and moved to Prague to make a professional music education. He composed, is an organist, is (that even the young Nedbal) music lessons, but earns enough money to pay for his living, and the coveted piano to buy. In entertainment theaters chapels and he gives himself with odd jobs a little more financial flexibility. But then - he is 34 years old - Antonin Dvorak is a music competition Johannes Brahms discovered (congenial) Komponiertalent. Commissions, and Dirigiereinladungen pour the money in on time. Nine years later, Dvorak starts at a first concert tour of England. The success is so great that would follow over eight more trips to England. But avorufen between Br 
through remains Antonin Dvorak normal "A simple farmer from Bohemia" (Bruno Gousset), which is like at home, with friends in the pub a round of playing cards, breeding pigeons, and hell-bent on everything related to railways and their schedules to do.
in 1891 reached Dvorák the status of a celebrity in the 'Old World', and in 1892 he goes - by invitation - with the whole family including holding remember the house 
in the 'New' to administrative tasks exempted head of the newly formed New York Conservatory to be. In America, Dvorak celebrates triumphs. He leaves, however, his flat only to fulfill professional responsibilities. In the evening out of life - even in the musical - we see him rarely. For Dvorák alone among the family circle, ocean liners, which he has now become much more interesting than locomotives, and the music. In America, he created his ninth and last symphony ( 'From the New World' Op. 1995) and a cycle of 8 'Humoresque' (Op. 101) whose seventh (see below) anywhere in many ways has become known.
Rudolf Schock sings Antonin Dvorak
Antonin Dvorak wrote about 10 operas: the first 1870 ( 'Alfred' ), the final 1902/1903 ( 'Armida' ). Thereof - has been by far the largest part over the years held on the record - particularly by the Czech label Supraphon . Dvorák's most famous opera - from the Wa 
ssernymphe 'Rusalka' (1890), falls in love with a mortal prince - several times (NB: Confuse Dvorák's' Rusalka 'not the' Rusalka'-opera Russian composer Alexander Dargomyschskij) .
The Electrola made almost half a century with advertising had included the titles of operas and operettas, Rudolf Schock resulting from the 1962 music. These included, according to the ad also 'Rusalka' by Dvorak and 'The Dark Eyes' by Eugen d'Albert. I suspect both titles were mistakes, but it seems to me important enough to mention them here, as in shock (and Electrola / 
Emi) you never know really. For the time being limited my collection - which Dvorak 'Rusalka' concerns - the magnificent moon aria ('You prefer silver moon so pale'), by the short lived, lyric soprano Elfriede Trötschel in a recording by Joseph Keilberth from the year 1951 (see cover photo of the relief-labels) is sung incomparably beautiful. On 'YouTube' sings another great singer: Lucia Popp - they also died relatively young - the aria in Czech. Back to Rudolf Schock: what he started by Antonin Dvorak much more comfortable, were the eight 'Love Songs' (Op. 83) and processing of the seventh 'Humoresque' (Op. 101). sake of completeness, I note to the fact that the shock 'Love Songs' has also sung in the concert hall.
'Love Songs' Op. 83 (. € nr 486 284 KK Disc LP 'Songs by Antonin Dvorak and Richard Strauss' Rudolf Schock is accompanied on piano by Ivan Eröd Rec.. Berlin, 21.07.1972)
Antonin Dvorak has dealt a big part of his life laboriously with songs. In 1865 (He is 24 years old then), he writes - against the background of deeply-felt, personal experience - the music for a song cycle titled: 'cypress' . The cycle does not matter. But Dvorak holds him for so important that he continues to hone his melodies. Or in the years 1881 and 1882 he published - again ignored by the critics - two small, revised song collections as 'Six' and 'Vie 
r songs' and in 1887 - under the name 'cypress' (!) - a string quartet, which he used his music of the old cycle. A year later, the composer meets-vocal-music Dvorák but the wart Sch : eight songs on texts by the poet worked Gustav Pfleger-Moravsky (1833-1875 portret ze ) than Opus 83 under the general title 'Love Songs' an unexpected success. They speak, or rather sing, love happiness that seriously threatens to turn into love suffering. Of attraction and repulsion, of feverish desire, hope to meet love, the fear of 'bitt'ren vaginal' that 'so miserable and joyless makes' , has not grown. In 'You only expensive' , the last song, the singer dreams of, he can, in the form of a white swan on wings contribute to the beloved, to literally lose her forever in ('she pines' = the spirit of giving). I learned that I - only after the songs I had heard a few times - I was aware of her beauty. A too large Zeitinvestierung the way, was not, because the eight songs barely last a total e 
twas more than fifteen minutes.
Rudolf sings shock the songs in German, which, for the 'Love Songs' quite common (was?): Dvorak himself translated many of his songs from Czech to German . In the 'love songs' leaving the composer to translate the Poet Otilie Malybrok-Stieler (1836-1913) , had set to music for six years from the texts rather have (the 'Four Songs' from 1882). Rudolf Schock took the 'Love Songs' on 21 July 1972 € on disc and a day later songs by Richard Strauss. Shock is - in view of the host year - in the Strauss songs, very good voice. Antonin Dvorak in the songs, he is also, if he passes also sing in the high register only once has a certain vocal cumbersome. Against the artistic achievement as a whole, however, does not apply: Rudolf Schock feels in the tortured mind of an unhappy love people a dedication of a masterly: it is no exaggeration, is not at a distance and never seems mannered. The song singer shock (read 'RS sings Johannes Brahms' ) unchanged at great intuitive finding a precise, timeless and therefore always valid - balance between form and content, music and text. I repeat: if you have the opportunity to listen to, please, these songs a few times in a row, and the Dvorak melodies are always beautiful.
'Humoresque' Op. 101, No. 7: 'A small spring fashion':
Ua on Sony / Ariola CD 610 229 'Rudolf Schock, voice for millions' . Shock is accompanied by the Berlin Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dir FRIED WALTER . Recording: Berlin, 01.06.1966.
is after many rigorous music lovers this contagious spring manner as 're such a tasteless adaptation " a " seriously intentioned " composition: it was joined by Chopin, from which an etude to '' In a song sounds to me (chen!) ' was degraded: it was Bach and Schubert, whose music including on "kitschy Ave Mary " was reduced, and it happened to Beethoven, whose" Andante con moto 'converted from the Piano Sonata Op. 57 in a ' Hymn to the Night ' been had. And so it was seventh and Dvorák ' Humoresque ' given be. I would go astray (for how about the artists to go by, they sing such "commercial products"?) if I would come to this sneer to philosophize. I can not refrain, however, noted some 'product' is the result of serious edits respectable composers. Think for example of Charles Gounod (in relation to Bach) and Friedrich Silcher (which relates to Beethoven).
The eight 'Humoresque' be written in 1894 by Antonin Dvorak in New York and are in the first instance as cheerful ideas for piano thought. The famous violinist and composer Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962) arranged it for piano and (own) violin. Of the eight 'ideas' is above all the 'Humoresque No. 7 in total: Poco lento e grazioso' popular. Probably one of the first texts on their music is a New York street song that begins with the following rules: "Passengers will please refrain (= give up) / flushing toilet while the train from / is standing in the station, I love you ....' (try to sing sometimes. It does exactly the music quite like the sky falling love letter stems possibly from the railway hobby of composers). writes In 1932 the recently emigrated to America Austrians Lengsfeld Hans J. (1903-1979) a serious (!) Text to the melody. Music and lyrics appear in print. Also in Germany, Austria, from 
he probably under the proviso that the name of the (Jewish) poet text is deleted. In 1933 makes Harry Frommermann (Photo: 2nd from right) , member of the legendary 'Comedian Harmonists' for the group singing a new arrangement for violin and piano. Grows 'A small spring way (A little Maytime song)' to the big 'S Dvorak 
chlager'.
addition to Comedian Harmonists sing them eg Richard Tauber , Anneliese Rothenberger , Fritz Wunderlich and Rudolf Schock the song was on disc / CD has been held. The other day I heard again the observations of Wu 
nderlich (on 'YouTube') and 
shock (on CD). I highly recommend both versions, if such a song is sung so bright, could - I believe - no (r) in the appeal beyond everything, every beautiful moment in this - short - enjoy life fully!
Krijn de Lege, 11/09/2010 (October 2010: 'Rudolf Schock sings Hans Ebert / Hans Bethge' and November 2010: 'Rudolf Schock sings Heinz Erhardt' .
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