Elisabeth Grümmer, soprano ; Marga Höffgen, alto ; Anton Dermota, tenor ; Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone ; Otto Edelmann, bass ; Wiener Singverein ; Wiener Sängerknaben ; Wiener Philharmoniker ; Wilhelm Furtwängler, conductor
Text by C.F. Henrici.
Issue number for U.S.A.: EMI Classics ZDHB 65509.
The performance omitted 14 numbers from the score & shortened some of the recitative; a further 2 numbers were cut from this issue "because of insurmountable technical problems in the original recording"--Notes, p. 6.
Compact discs.
Previously issued on analog discs.
Program notes by Alan Jefferson laid in container.
Recorded from live performances in the Musikvereinssaal, Vienna, Apr. 14-17, 1954.