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The Flagstad Recitals Vol. 4 - Songs for Sunday - Sacred Arias; Bach / Handel
SKU:
14768
Price:
AU
$13.59
Label:
Decca
Cat. No.:
480 0616
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 fourth volume in "The Flagstad Recitals" comprises two LPs Kirsten Flagstad made with the London Philharmonic and Sir Adrian Boult in December 1956 (Bach and Handel: CD2) and April 1957 (Sacred Songs: CD1) at London's Kingsway Hall. The
Penguin Guide to bargain Compact Discs
praised the 'sacred pops' CD for the 'vivid projection' of Flagstad's voice and singled out the 'great majesty and weight' of her voice. As with the sacred songs, the Bach and Handel items have a devotional aura of their own and this anthology is also unique for the first stereo publication of Bach's aria 'Sheep may safely graze' and the first-ever publication of 'Art thou troubled' from Handel's
Rodelinda.
Some of the songs featured on 'Great Sacred Songs' made their way onto a 45rpm EP which was entitled "Songs for Sunday" - from which derives the title of this compilation. Flagstad's own religious beliefs remain unexpressed in
The Flagstad Manuscript
- there are no pronouncements about morality
per se
or about the immortality of the soul. How she lived her life speaks for itself, however, and so do the performances on this CD: songs not just for Sunday for but every day.
A Decca Eloquence 2-CD set.
Artists:
Kirsten Flagstad (soprano).
Composers:
JS Bach, Bortnyansky, Gounod, Gruber, Handel, Liddle, Mendelssohn, Parry, Wade.
Conductors:
Sir Adrian Boult.
Orchestras:
London Philharmonic Orchestra.
Tracks:
CD 1
1
2
FELIX MENDELSSOHN (1809-1847)
Hear my prayer - O for the wings of a dove
Jerusalem
(from St. Paul, Op. 36)
3
FRANZ XAVER GRUBER (1787-1863)
Silent Night
(arr. Woodgate, Young)
4
CHARLES GOUNOD (1818-1893)
Ah, turn me not away ... O Divine Redeemer
5
HUBERT PARRY (1848-1918)
Jerusalem
6
DMITRY BORTNYANSKY (1751-1825)
Jubilate
(arr. Woodgate, Young)
7
JOHN FRANCIS WADE (1711-1786)
O come, all ye faithful
8
SAMUEL LIDDLE (1867-1951)
Abide with me
CD 2
1
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750)
Break in grief
(from St. Matthew Passion, BWV244, ed. Elgar, Atkins)
2
Jesu, joy of man's desiring
(from Cantata BWV147: Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, arr. W.G. Whittaker)
3
If thou be near
(from Clavierbuchlein fur Anna Magdalena Bach; English version edited by Tippett, Bergman)
4
Sheep may safely graze
(from Cantata BWV20: Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd)
Stereo version previously unpublished
5
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL (1685-1759)
Art thou troubled
(from Rodelinda, HWV19)
Previously unpublished
6
Gods all powerful
(from Radamisto, HWV11)
7
Oh sleep, why doest thou leave me
(from Semele, HWV28)
8
He shall feed his flock
(from Messiah, HWV56)
9
I know that my Redeemer liveth
(from Messiah, HWV56)
10
Praise yet the Lord
(Ochs, attrib. Handel; arr. Woodgate, McCormack)
Kirsten Flagstad
soprano
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult
Medium:
CD
No. of Discs:
2
SKU #:
14768
Label:
Decca
Catalog #:
480 0616
Price: AU $13.59
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