G. F. Handel
Messiah:
1. Comfort ye
2. Every valley
(rec. March 26, 1940)
Diderik Buxtehude
3. Was mich auf dieser Welt betrübt
J. S. Bach
Weihnachtsoratorium:
4. Frohe Hirten, eilt, ach eilet
(Rec. March 20, 1940)
Matthäuspassion:
5. O Schmerz – Ich will bei meinem Jesu
(Rec. April 22, 1942)
John Dowland
6. Shall I sue
7. Now cease, my wand’ring eyes
8. Flow, my tears
(Rec. October 17, 1941)
W.A. Mozart
Die Zauberflöte:
9. Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön
Cosi fan tutte:
10. Un’aura amorosa
(Rec. February 25, 1925)
Don Giovanni:
11. Dalla sua pace
12. Il mio tesoro intanto
(Rec. February 27, 1942)
Die Entführung aus dem Serail:
13. Hier soll ich dich denn sehen, Konstanze
14. In Mohrenland gefangen war
(Rec. August 31, 1943)
Joseph Haydn
Die Schöpfung:
15. Mit Würd’ und Hoheit angetan
(Rec. December 4, 1942)
P. Tchaikovsky
Eugene Onegin:
16. Fremtid har liv og død i eje (sung in Danish)
Charles Gounod
Faust:
17. Vær hilset, plet (sung in Danish)
(Rec. October 25, 1944)
G.F. Handel
18. Love Sounds th’alarm (Acis and Galathea) &
Sacred raptures cheer my breats (Solomon)
(Rec. September 25, 1945)
Aksel Schiøtz © Gerd Schiøtz 1955 and 1970
This collected edition of Aksel Schiøtz’s recordings means the fulfilment of a great wish of mine.
It touches me that the boards of Velux Fonden af 1981, Augustinus Fonden and Carl Nielsen og Anne Marie Carl-Nielsens Legat have sympathized with the wish to perpetuate Aksel Schiøtz’s art.
Most of the recordings were issued on LPs, but they are now obsolete, nor have those transfers been as good as the originals. Listening now to the fresh and clean transfer made from the early pressings by Mr Andrew Walter, chief engineer of the EMI Abbey Road Studios, one is reminded how good the originals were. (They carry, most of the time, “take 1” on them, which is to the credit of Aksel Schiøtz as well as the engineers). It was HMV in London who discovered Aksel Schiøtz and made him one of their artists, so it pleases me that the CDs are produced in collaboration with the EMI Abbey Road Studios.
The series is complete up till late 1946 when Aksel Schiatz barely suruived an operation which left half his face lame. His struggle to recover and to resume singing I, too, was involved in with natural strong feelings. But there were two separate periods, which must wisely be kept apart.
So what is presented now are the complete recordings of Aksel Schiøtz, the tenor. Included are unknown documentary recordings from those times, authorized for issue by me. I hope that the CDs will come into the hands of those who will love them bestt
Gerd Schiøtz
Dear girl, 17. jan. 1938
If this letter sounds silly and without head or tail,
learn the reason for my silliness. Telephone call
from Hartkopp, head of Skandinavisk Grammofon
(Danish EMI). He said, “Take hold of yourself,
Schiøtz. Yesterday I was told by our London Office
to find the singer AS, supposed to be in
Copenhagen. They ask you to make some test
records, a concert aria by Mozart (to appear in vol.
4. Ed.) and an aria from “Die Entfiihrung”, paid for
by the London Office, and without obligation on
either side.” Hartkopp was quite dumbfounded, he
did not know anything about me. And that is our
chance now.
Then he asked me to record a couple of Danish
songs for the domestic company. It is aggrevating
you have been iced in at Aarhus. You’ll have to
come here, I need your common sense with me.
A.
RELEASE DATE: MAY 1996
CATALOGUE NUMBER: DACOCD 451
EAN: 5709499451007
