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The Flagstad Recitals Vol. 3 - Wagner: Opera arias; Lieder; Mahler: Lieder
SKU:
14767
Price:
AU
$13.59
Label:
Decca
Cat. No.:
480 1796
Medium:
CD
No. Discs:
2
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KIRSTEN FLAGSTAD EDITION
The Decca recordings of Kirsten Flagstad are the astonishing last chapter of a performing career that began more than four decades earlier. Unknown in most of Europe and the rest of the world until she was 39, Flagstad had made her singing debut in 1913. Encouraged by her second husband, she sang at the Bayreuth Festivals of 1933 and 1934, and her sensational Met debut as Sieglinde in
Die Walküre
in February 1935 marked the beginning of a second career as, arguably, the most important singer in the world.
The Decca recordings, beginning in March 1956, reveal a voice as miraculous as ever, and a musical intelligence eager to explore completely new repertory. It is a body of work more substantial than the life's output of most singers. For Flagstad, the recordings are a glorious finale to a remarkable career, with the voice recorded satisfactorily for the first time. This edition includes titles never before released in any format. The CDs include extensive notes by John Steane, Robert Tuggle and Raymond Tuttle as well an array of beautiful and some rare photographs provided courtesy of the Kirsten Flagstad Museum in her birthplace of Hamar, Norway (
www.kirsten-flagstad.no
).
The seven recordings cover song recitals (with both orchestra and piano), opera (Gluck's
Alceste
in its Italian version and Acts I and III of Wagner's
Die Walküre
) and a selection of Norwegian Hymns and sacred songs. When some of these recordings first appeared on Decca CD, the
Penguin Guide to Bargain Compact Discs
praised them for their 'faithful sound' and commented on how they 'demonstrate again her masterly sense of pacing and of vocal colour and her command of evocation'.
These important reissues mark the tenth anniversary of Decca's Eloquence label in Australia (2009) as well as, in advance, the 25th anniversary of the opening of the Kirsten Flagstad Museum in Norway (2010).
The third volume of The Flagstad Recitals couples music by Wagner and Mahler. Flagstad's LP of Wagner scenes recorded with Hans Knappertsbusch is complemented by the "Todesverkündigung" from Act II of
Die Walküre
with Sir Georg Solti as well as the "Immolation Scene" from
Götterdämmerung
from a Norwegian broadcast performance conducted by Øivin Fjeldstad. Also included are the two Mahler song cycles Flagstad recorded with Sir Adrian Boult and the Vienna Philharmonic.
In his booklet notes John Steane asks us to "remember (for it is easy to forget) that in this recording we hear the voice of a woman over 60. It is still possible to feel, as Desmond Shawe-Taylor did when hearing her years earlier in a concert performance with Furtwängler, that the 'sumptuous, saturated tone-quality of this sort has almost vanished from the world'."
'It is wonderful to hear how the great soprano can produce the softest flute-like tone on a high G, fining it down to vanishing point' [Mahler: 'Ging heut' morgen über's Feld' from
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
] -
Gramophone
.
[Wesendon-Lieder] "...beautifully played on this disc, as is everything else, by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Knappertsbusch. Flagstad's deeper insight into the music shows particularly in 'Stehe still!' and 'Im Treibhaus' but she is very well suited by all five songs." -
Gramophone
.
[Kindertotenlieder] "That glorious voice is heard here in a very fine recording, and Sir Adrian and the Vienna Philharmonic form a happy combination. And in any case, Flagstad sings these particular songs most beautifully; Lieder on this scale finds in her a fine and sensitive interpreter. Incredible that she was 62 at the time." -
Gramophone
.
"Flagstad was a superb Sieglinde, and her glorious voice is perfectly suited to the rich inspiration of the
Wesendonk-Lieder
... one of the finest Brünnhildes of our time" -
The Penguin Guide to Bargain Compact Discs
.
A Decca Eloquence 2-CD set.
Artists:
Kirsten Flagstad (soprano).
Composers:
Mahler, Wagner.
Conductors:
Sir Adrian Boult, Oivin Fjeldstad, Hans Knappertsbusch, Sir Georg Solti.
Orchestras:
Norwegian State Radio Orchestra, Wiener Philharmoniker.
Tracks:
CD 1
RICHARD WAGNER (1813-1883)
1
2
Die Walkure
Der Manner Sippe (Act I)
Du bist der Lenz (Act I)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Hans Knappertsbusch
3
Siegmund! Sieh auf mich (Todesverkundigung, Act II)
Set Svanholm
tenor
(Siegmund)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Sir Georg Solti
4
Lohengrin
Einsam in truben Tagen (Act I)
5
Parsifal
Ich sah das Kind (Act II)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Hans Knappertsbusch
6
Gotterdammerung
Starke Scheite schichtet mir dort (Immolation Scene, Act III)
Egil Nordsjo
bass
(Hagen)
Norwegian State Radio Orchestra
Oivin Fjeldstad
CD 2
Wesendonk-Lieder
1
2
3
4
5
I
II
III
IV
V
Der Engel
Stehe still
Im Treibhaus
Schmerzen
Traume
Wiener Philharmoniker
Hans Knappertsbusch
GUSTAV MAHLER (1860-1911)
Kindertotenlieder
6
7
8
9
10
I
II
III
IV
V
Nun will die Sonn' so hell aufgeh'n
Nun seh' ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen
Wenn die Mutterlein
Oft denk' ich, sie sind nur ausgegangen
In diesem Wetter
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
11
12
13
14
I
II
III
IV
Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht
Ging heut' morgen uber's Feld
Ich hab' ein gluhend Messer
Die zwei blauen Augen
Wiener Philharmoniker
Sir Adrian Boult
Kirsten Flagstad
soprano
CD1 [6] MONO RECORDING
Medium:
CD
No. of Discs:
2
SKU #:
14767
Label:
Decca
Catalog #:
480 1796
Price: AU $13.59
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