Description
Kirsten Flagstad: Handel, Bach, Purcell, Gluck, Wagner, Set Svanholm, Karl Böhm / Testament Audio CD 1993 Mono / SBT 1018
UPC 749677101824
Kirsten Malfrid Flagstad (12 July 1895 – 7 December 1962) was a Norwegian opera singer, who was the outstanding Wagnerian soprano of her era. Her triumphant debut in New York on 2 February 1935 is one of the legends of opera. Giulio Gatti-Casazza, the longstanding General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera said, “I have given America two great gifts — Caruso and Flagstad.”
Called "the voice of the century", she ranks among the greatest singers of the 20th century. Desmond Shawe-Taylor wrote of her in the New Grove Dictionary of Opera: "No one within living memory surpassed her in sheer beauty and consistency of line and tone."
| Label: | Testament – SBT 1018 |
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| Format: |
CD, Compilation, Mono
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| Country: | UK |
| Released: |
1993 |
| Genre: | Classical |
| Style: | Baroque, Romantic |
Tracklist:
| 1 |
Lied: Dank Sei Dir, Herr |
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4:24
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| 2 | Serse (Xerxes): Ombra Ma Fù (Serse, Act 1) |
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4:31
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| 3 | Messiah: I Know That My Redeemer Liveth |
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7:33
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| 4 | St. Matthew Passion: Erbarme Dich, Mein Gott |
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8:51
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| 5 | Dido And Aeneas: Thy Hand Belinda...When I Am Laid In Earth (Dido, Act 3) |
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4:51
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| 6 | Orfeo Ed Euridice: Che Farò Senza Euridice (Orfeo, Act 3) |
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4:19
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| 7 |
Die Walküre: Siegmund! Sieh' Auf Mich! (Todesverkündigung) (Brünnhilde/Siegmund, Act 2, Scene 4) |
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18:03
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| 8 | Tristan Und Isolde: O Sink' Hernieder, Nacht Der Liebe (Liedesduett) (Tristan/Isolde/Brangane, Act 2, Scene 2) |
| 23:34 |
- Engineer – Arthur Clarke (2) (tracks: 4), Douglas Larter (tracks: 1, 2, 5 To 8), Francis Dillnutt (tracks: 4)
- Executive-Producer – Stewart Brown (5)
- Orchestra – Philharmonia Orchestra
- Producer – Geraint Jones (2) (tracks: 3), Walter Legge (tracks: 1, 2, 4 To 8)
- Remastered By – Andrew Walter, Paul Bailey
- Soprano Vocals – Kirsten Flagstad
