The Duchess Of Chicago: Vorspiel - Nr. 1 Introduktion -- Charleston, Charleston tanzt man heut!
The Duchess Of Chicago: Vorspiel - Nr. 1 Introduktion - Seh'n Sie, Prim?s, das ist die Musik
The Duchess Of Chicago: Vorspiel - Nr. 2 Wienerlied - Das Wienerlied, so suss und weich
The Duchess Of Chicago: Vorspiel - Nr. 2 Wienerlied - Herr Direktor! Herr Direktor! Ein Amerikaner!
The Duchess Of Chicago: Vorspiel - Nr. 3 Wir Ladies aus Amerika - Thank You, Ladies And Gentlemen ... Mary, o sprach mein Papa
The Duchess Of Chicago: Vorspiel - Nr. 3 Wir Ladies aus Amerika - Und darf ich fragen, Miss Lloyd, was ist der Grund
The Duchess Of Chicago: Vorspiel - Nr. 4 Finale - Amerika will er nicht ... Bobby, jezst spiel mir was auf!
The Duchess Of Chicago: Vorspiel - Nr. 4 Finale - Pass auf, alter Primas, bist du ein Mann!
The Duchess Of Chicago: Vorspiel - Nr. 4 Finale - Alle Ziguener her zu mir ... Hor' ich deine Geige wieder
The Duchess Of Chicago: Vorspiel - Nr. 4 Finale - Nun, was sagen Sie zu d i e s e r Tanzart, Gnadigste?
The Duchess Of Chicago: Vorspiel - Nr. 4 Finale - Draussen sind sie! Mihaly, wir haben gesiegt!
The Duchess Of Chicago: Erster Akt - Nr. 5 Hymne -- Machtvoll braust der Heimat Lied
The Duchess Of Chicago: Erster Akt - Nr. 5 Hymne - Geliebte Anwesende!
The Duchess Of Chicago: Erster Akt - Nr. 5a Marschlied: Wenn die Garde schneidig durch dir Stadt marschiert - Herr Erbprinz, wir stellen gehorsamst uns vor!
The Duchess Of Chicago: Erster Akt - Entr'acte (Nr. 4a)
The Duchess Of Chicago: Erster Akt - Entr'acte (Nr. 4a)Das w?re ja noch schoner -- unser Erbprinz und die arme Prinzessin von Morenien
The Duchess Of Chicago: Erster Akt - Nr. 6 Duett - Lichtreklamen, Riesenlettern
The Duchess Of Chicago: Erster Akt - Nr. 6 Duett - Ihre durchlauttigste Hoheit Prinzessin Rosemarie von Morenien
The Duchess Of Chicago: Erster Akt - Nr. 7 Duett: O Ros'marie - Warest du kein Prinzesschen
The Duchess Of Chicago: Erster Akt - Nr. 7 Duett: O Ros'marie - Aber Herr Kollege, bedenken Sie doch: sechs Millionen!
The Duchess Of Chicago: Erster Akt - Nr. 8 Musikalische Szene un Duett - Miss Mary Lloyd!
The Duchess Of Chicago: Erster Akt - Nr. 8 Musikalische Szene un Duett - Komm, Prinzchen, komm her
The Duchess Of Chicago: Erster Akt - Nr. 8 Musikalische Szene un Duett - Nichts anzufangen mit der Leuten
The Duchess Of Chicago: Erster Akt - Nr. 9 Duett: Mister Bondy - Wenn ich eine kleine Frau hatt'
The Duchess Of Chicago: Nr. 10 Finale I - Ich bin ausser mir, Gnadigste ... Wie sich's schickt von feinen Leuten
Track Listings (36) - Disc #2
The Duchess Of Chicago: Erster Akt - Nr. 10 Finale I - Wollen, gutigst verzeihen, Gnadigste, bitte, ein inkognito
The Duchess Of Chicago: Erster Akt - Nr. 10 Finale I - Geliebte Anweisende!
The Duchess Of Chicago: Erster Akt - Nr. 10 Finale I - Welch eine Sensation! ... Uber uns kam Gottes Segen
The Duchess Of Chicago: Erster Akt - Nr. 10 Finale I - Isten veled! Isten veled!
The Duchess Of Chicago: Erster Akt - Nr. 10 Finale I - Bitte, bitte, ist gern geschehen
The Duchess Of Chicago: Erster Akt - Nr. 10 Finale I - Das war'n noch Zeiten! ... Euer Hoheit erstes Garderegiment
The Duchess Of Chicago: Erster Akt - Nr. 10 Finale I - Vienna Musik, Vienna Musik
The Duchess Of Chicago: Zweiter Akt - Nr. 11a Introduktion
The Duchess Of Chicago: Zweiter Akt - Nr. 11a Introduktion - Meine lieben Gaste! Ich danken Ihnen viemals
The Duchess Of Chicago: Zweiter Akt - Nr. 11b Lied un Tanz: Ein kleiner Slowfox mit Mary - Warten Sie, Herr Erbprinz ... Mary kam vom gold'nen Strande
The Duchess Of Chicago: Zweiter Akt - Nr. 11b Lied un Tanz: Ein kleiner Slowfox mit Mary - Oh, Bondy - ich bin so glucklich heute
The Duchess Of Chicago: Zweiter Akt - Nr. 12 Spielduett: Den Walzer hat der Herrgott fur Verliebte nur gemacht - Hoheit, ich sein tief ergriffen von der grosse Huld
The Duchess Of Chicago: Zweiter Akt - Nr. 12 Spielduett: Den Walzer hat der Herrgott fur Verliebte nur gemacht - Tanz
The Duchess Of Chicago: Zweiter Akt - Nr. 12 Spielduett: Den Walzer hat der Herrgott fur Verliebte nur gemacht - Aber Walzer, das ist doch ganz etwas anderes ... Der Walzer ist des Lebens schonste Melodie
The Duchess Of Chicago: Zweiter Akt - Nr. 12 Spielduett: Den Walzer hat der Herrgott fur Verliebte nur gemacht - Nun, Herr Kollege, haben Sie meinen grandiosen Plan begriffen?
The Duchess Of Chicago: Zweiter Akt - Nr. 13 Ensemble-Szene - Wir Ladies aus der Neuen Weit
The Duchess Of Chicago: Zweiter Akt - Nr. 13 Ensemble-Szene - So, mein Kind, jetzt, wo wir allein sind
The Duchess Of Chicago: Zweiter Akt - Nr. 13 Ensemble-Szene - Hoheit Prinzessin, das ist wirklich lien von Ihnen
The Duchess Of Chicago: Zweiter Akt - Nr. 14 Duett: Im Himmel spielt auch schon die Jazzband - Warum fuhl' ich mich so kreuzfidel
The Duchess Of Chicago: Zweiter Akt - Nr. 14 Duett: Im Himmel spielt auch schon die Jazzband - Mein Darling, jede Amerikanerin darf einen Spleen haben
The Duchess Of Chicago: Zweiter Akt - Nr. 15 Duett: Rose der Prairie - Ihr Herr Papa ist sehr klug!
The Duchess Of Chicago: Zweiter Akt - Nr. 15 Duett: Rose der Prairie - Wenn der Sonne Flammenschein abends am Missouri gluht
The Duchess Of Chicago: Zweiter Akt - Nr. 15 Duett: Rose der Prairie - Wow! Great! -- Gee! Brilliant! -- Handsome! Crazy!
The Duchess Of Chicago: Zweiter Akt - Nr. 16 Finalle II - Seid Umschlugen, Millionen
The Duchess Of Chicago: Zweiter Akt - Nr. 16 Finalle II - Meiner innigst geliebten Kusine, Ihrer allerdurchlauchtigsten Hoheit
The Duchess Of Chicago: Zweiter Akt - Nr. 16 Finalle II - Ihr Ladies aus aus der Neuen Welt, ihr kauft euch das, was euch gefallt!
The Duchess Of Chicago: Zweiter Akt - Nr. 16 Finalle II - Haltung, Mary! Kopf hoch!
The Duchess Of Chicago: Nachspiel - Nr. 16b Introduktion - Charleston, Charleston tanzt die Welt
The Duchess Of Chicago: Nachspiel - Nr. 16b Introduktion - Meine Herrschaften, im gelben Saal beginnt der Roulettetanz!
The Duchess Of Chicago: Nachspiel - Nr. 16c Reminiszenz - Das war'n noch Zeiten! ... Wiener Musik ... Komm in mein kleines Liebesboot
The Duchess Of Chicago: Nachspiel - Nr. 16c Reminiszenz - Die Herrschaften w?nschen hier Platz zu nehmen
The Duchess Of Chicago: Nachspiel - Nr. 17 Duett - Oh, Majestat, ich bin entzuckt
The Duchess Of Chicago: Nachspiel - Nr. 17 Duett - Ober! Champagner!
The Duchess Of Chicago: Nachspiel - Nr. 17 Duett - Tanz
The Duchess Of Chicago: Nr. 17 Duett - Hoheit - da ist sie - mit ihrem gehimnisvollen Begleiter
The Duchess Of Chicago: Nachspiel - Nr. 18 Schlussgesang - Ein kleiner Slowfox mit Mary
FLEDERMAUS, MERRY WIDOW AND NOW THE DUTCHESS OF CHICAGO
Maria I. Martinez | Miami, USA | 03/05/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)
"The plot of this funny operetta is a "love story" featuring a rich, modern, billion-dollar American-girl who arrives Europe in the 1920s and falls in love with an old fashioned European Prince, whose country including the Prince and his Castle, the oil wells, railways, etc. are bought by this young "Lady from the new World" Miss Mary Lloyd, who also is accompanied by her billionaire friends of the Young Ladies' American Eccentric Club of New York (Miss Astor, Miss Carnegie, Miss Rockefeller, Miss Ford, among other high society girls) and a crowd of Charleston and Fox-trot dancers. The struggle between the New and the Old (way of dancing and music) is emphasized by making use of the most melodic and finest "American Jazz and Fox-Trots" and the best "contemporary" and richly orchestrated classical operetta music (waltz and czardas) I have listened in my life. This work was composed in 1928 by the gifted German-Hungarian Emmerich Kalman, whose compositions were smashing hits after the 1st World War, and which I had not the opportunity to listen until I bought this recording based on the "five star" recommendations of prior Amazon buyers comments. Kalman's music is not so well-known today (as of J. Strauss or Lehar or Berstein`s) since it was almost suppressed by the nazis during the Third Reich, who considered it as degenerated ("Entartete") not for its quality but due to Jewish origins of Mr. Kalman, who refused to hide, even with the help of the Nazis who admired his music, his origins and fortunately emigrated with his family to the USA. This terrible fact also helped to "hide" and avoid the "over-play" the sparkling music of Kalman, and keep his legacy until its re-discovery by the young audiences of the "New World" in the Y2K and forever thanks to the DECCA Team in charge of this huge recopilation of the music that was suppressed during the Third Reich. If you expect to buy a two CD-Recording with one hit after the other, beautifully sung (in German) accompanied with refined music, singing and choruses, featuring a symphonic orchestra alternating with jazz-bands, which also dare to play an excerpt of Beethoven's Fifth "Fox-Trot", this is a must-buy for you. Very Important Warning! This work is a masterpiece if you approach to it expecting to enjoy a modern fully melodic "light" composition which is somewhere between the operetta and the best Broadway/Hollywood musicals (such as the compositions of Berstein's West Side Story, Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, and Roger & Hammerstein's Sound of Music and the King and I). After listening twice to this excellent "operetta", masterly conducted by the first-class Maestro Bonynge and wonderful singers/actors, the music will sound so familiar to you that the Waltzes of Kalman (such as the beautiful "Wiener Music" sung first by the Prince and later superbly by the American protagonist Mary Lloyd) and his Orchestral Fox and Slow-Trots (among others "Ladies from America", "A Little Slow-fox with Mary", "In Chicago do you know what is what?"), and the wonderful love duet "Rose of the Prairie") will be part of your musical life, and will sound later to you very familiar, since this music and its orchestral arrangements had strong influence in several "contemporary" compositions, thanks to german-jewish composers (such as Weill, Kern, Krenek, Korngold, Kalman) and several other talented American composers (Bernstein, Rogers, among several others) who created some of the Best Broadway's Musicals and Hollywood's soundtracks of the 40s, 50s, 60s. If you speak and understand some German, which is not a pre-requisite to enjoy this recording (since the libretto has also an English and French translation), you will love even more this work, since the excellent singers, who are also great actors, make you believe you are within the play, and keep you most of the time smiling and laughing with the sparkling plot and due to the funny "American-German" and "Slave-German" pronunciation of the Americans and Eastern-Europeans, respectively."
The Best I've bought since The Magic Flute
wellio@wa.freei.net | Seattle | 12/26/1999
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Let me start of by saying I rarely pay attention to Five Star reviews because people tend to give anything they like Five Stars- however- this is fully deserving of Five Stars- it's simply incredible.Like the previous reviewer I bought it out of curiousity, and cannot stop listening to it. I was up until 2am the night I bought it because it is fantastic!The score is incredible. Very lush, very romantic at times, and just plain FUN! FUN! FUN! all of the time! It has the Fox Trot, Charleston, tons of choral numbers- and there's even music during some of the dialogue.Three years ago I bought; The Abduction from the Seraglio, The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, Cosi fan tutte, and finally The Magic Flute. They were among my first ten operas- well I have not liked anything as much as Die Herzogin Von Chicago since I bought those Mozart operas.Bonyage assembled a spectacular cast and the orchestra plays with power, grace, and brilliance. To me- music is first and foremost to entertain-and Die Herzogin Von Chicago never lets up. It's one great "number" after another.If you want GREAT ENTERTAINMENT through INCREDIBLE music- I highly suggest purchasing this- you won't regret it.I just can't stop listening to it."
Buried Treasure
John McKendrick | UK | 10/09/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)
"What a joy this recording is. Wonderful lush tunes well played and sung to sparkling orchestratons. Includes dialogue but this is mostly at the end of tracks so can be easily disposed of if desired. Congratulations to Mr Bonynge and his team."
Music you can't get out of your head
Classic Music Lover | Maryland, USA | 03/13/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)
"In Die Fledermaus, Johann Strauss penned the world's greatest operetta. But most of Strauss's other stage works are pretty unremarkable stuff -- apart from the waltzes that thrive quite well in the concert hall on their own. In Kalman, we have the most consistently strong operetta composer -- yes, better even than Strauss, Lehar, and certainly superior to the bevy of musical has-beens (Friml, Abraham, Stolz, Romberg, etc., etc.). While Kalman is far more famous for Die Czardasfurstin and Grafin Mariza, Die Herzogin von Chicago is also a great work, from first note to last. It's choc-a-bloc full of memorable songs, tunes, leitmotivs, and action. Once you put it on your CD player, you won't be able to take it off! I count five or six numbers that could easily exist on their own, completely apart from the operetta -- they're just that good. The mix of Jazz, Viennese and Hungarian Czardas styles really works, and the musical inspiration is uniformly inspired throughout. If you like Central European light opera fare -- or even if your thing is Gilbert & Sullivan -- you owe it to yourself to get to know this work in a first-class performance: Bonynge & Co. have the thing aced. Sumptuous packaging, interesting program notes and a fascinating historical perspective are also part of the set, in one of Decca's more noteworthy operatic releases of the past decade ..."