Richard Strauss. Elektra - Sir Thomas Beecham - BBC 1947

Richard Strauss: "Elektra" 

Elektra..................... Erna Schlüter
Chrysothemis..................... Ljuba Welitsch
Clytemnestra..................... Elisabeth Höngen
Aegisth..................... Walter Widdop
Orest..................... Paul Schöffler
Ein alter Diener..................... Eric Goldie
Ein junger Diener..................... George Chitty
Die Schleppträgerin..................... Gwladys Garside
Die Vertraute..................... Mildred Watson
Der Pfleger des Orest..................... Ernst Erbach
Die Aufseherin..................... Ruth Packer
5 Magd... Maud Heaton, Gwladys Garside, Monica Warner, Sylvia Patriss, Marion Davies

BBC Chorus & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra  conducted by  Sir Thomas Beecham          16/44 FLAC  MediaFire Download

Recorded/Broadcast: 24/26 October 1947. From Myto CD 98.H004 (Internet Archive: downloaded for My interest!).
Bass Cut - 12dB/8ve @ 25Hz - Treble cut above 8kHz (Mucho Bass/Upper Treble hash + FM Tuner 19kHz signal). <1.2 dB treble boost @ 6kHz.
Likely the 31st December 1978 BBC Radio 3 TX (which I listened-to: the crash of instruments at the end deleted by Myto). Sounds OK - bought the 1979 RCA (RL42821) which has indifferent transfers of Ariadne/Elektra (ex-EMI).   RCA RL42821 cover + Radio Times 1947 programme>>>

Ljuba Welitsch sings... "Salome" (1944) -&- "Salome"/ Tchaikovsky / Verdi / Puccini / Weber / Lehar / Millocker - Columbia 1947-8 / Decca 1950

Tchaikovsky:  "Eugene Onegin" -  Tatiana's Letter Scene    /     Verdi:  "Aida" - Ritorna Vincitor! **
Puccini:  "La Tosca" -  Vissi d'arte     /    Weber:  "Der Freischutz" -  Wie nahte mir der Schlummer  
The Philharmonia Orchestra  conducted by  Walter Susskind  (**Josef Krips)   
Puccini:  "La Boheme" -  Quando m'en vo?          Vienna State Opera Orchestra
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Richard Strauss:  "Salome" - Final Scene.         Wiener Rundfunk Orchester  conducted by  Lovro von Matacic
Richard Strauss:  "Salome" - Jochanaan descends into the cistern  /  Final Scene  (with Gertrud Schuster, Contralto -&- Josef Witt, Tenor)*    
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra  conducted by  Herbert von Karajan                              
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HMV  HLM 7006 + EMI World Records  SH 286*  Matrices:  HLM 7006A -2 (SH 289 used)  / HLM 7006B -2G  + 2XVH 9134 -1*.

Tchaikovsky:  "The Queen of Spades" -  Ich muss am Fenster lehnen   /   Es geht auf Mitternacht
Verdi:  "Un Ballo in Maschera" -  Ma dall’arido stelo divulsa   /   Morro, ma prima in grazia  
Lehar:  "Zigeunerliebe" - Hor ich Cymbalklange     /     Lehar:  "Die Lustige Witwe" - Vilja-Lied   
Millocker-Mackeben:  "Grafin Dubarry" - Ich schenk’ mein Herz      /     Lehar:  "Der Zarewitsch" - Einer wird kommen   
Vienna State Opera Orchestra   conducted by   Rudolf Moralt                                    4 files zip WAV  Mega Download 
Decca  BR 3053  (originally LXT 2567)   1960 10" LP/matrices: TRL938 -1B / TRL939 -1B.   Recorded: c.June 1950 - Musikvereinsaal, Vienna.  Decca: slightly re-edited: Dec.2013     EMI 78 transfers by: Bryan Crimp / *Anthony Griffith     (Texts/SH 286 details in HMV/WRC folder)       
1949/50 Met - Reiner/Rudolf recital     Paul Schoeffler - Decca 1950. Excellent recital     The superb 1952 Moralt/VSO 'Salome'

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