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Smetana: Prodaná nevěsta - Kempe

Tower Records Definition Serie  TDSA-306 (2 discs)

Stereo Hybrid

Classical - Opera

Marcel Cordes (Kruschina)
Nada Puttar (Kathinka)
Pilar Lorengar (Marie)
Ivan Serdi (Micha)
Sieglinde Wagner (Agnes)
Karl-Ernst Mercker (Wenzel)
Fritz Wunderlich (Hans)
Gottlob Frick (Kezal)
Ernst Krukowski (Springer)
Gertrud Freedmann (Esmerelda)
Walter Stoll (Muff)
RIAS-Kammerchor
Bamberger Symphoniker
Rudolf Kempe (conductor)

(Sung in German)

All

Recording

Analogue recording

Works (1)

• Bedrich Smetana: Prodaná nevěsta (The Bartered Bride), JB 1:100