Fritz Wunderlich; Ingeborg Hallstein; Naan P�ld; Hertha T�pper; Jean Cook; Karl Christian Kohn; Max Proebstl; Bavarian Radio Choir; Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra - Georg Friedrich H�ndel: Xerxes

Re-release of C476983. This 1962 production of Xerxes was based on Rudolf Steglich�s 1958 edition, which closely follows the autograph score housed in the British Museum and uses a new German translation. The roles of Xerxes and Arsamenes, originally written for castrato sopranos, are here taken by tenor voices. As regards the orchestral direction, Rafael Kubel�k favours a reserved, rather than overblown, string sound and adopts discreet vibrato, Baroque terraced dynamics and tempo relationships that avoid extremes. For today�s listeners, therefore, his interpretation falls midway between the productions based on Oskar Hagen�s arrangement, which largely reflected a romantic interpretation of the Baroque, and the current period-sonority versions.The star cast features Fritz Wunderlich, Naan P�ld, Hertha T�pper, Jean Cook, Ingeborg Hallstein, Carl Christian Kohn and Max Pr�bstl, demonstrating how high the standards of opera production were at the time.