Lauritz Melchior Lotte Lehmann Friedrich Schorr Die Walküre full opera (1940 live; 15-sec Wälse!)

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Die Walküre by Richard Wagner performed in German
Conductor Erich Leinsdorf - 1940(LI;Boston)
Siegmund - Lauritz Melchior
Sieglinde - Lotte Lehmann
Hunding - Emanuel List
Brünhilde - Marjorie Lawrence
Wotan - Friedrich Schorr
Fricka - Kerstin Thorborg
Gerhilde - Thelma Votipka
Ortlinde - Irene Jessner
Waltraute - Maxine Stellman
Schwertleite - Doris Doe
Helmwige - Dorothee Manski
Siegrune - Helen Olheim
Grimgerde - Winifred Heidt
Roßweiße - Lucielle Browning

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@Tenortalker Жыл бұрын

What a cast! Not only Lehmann's great Sieglinde , but Lawrence and Melchior with Leinsdorf keeping the music flowing forward and flexible.

@robertevans8010 2 жыл бұрын

Melchior is the Greatest of all Wagnerian Heldentenors, tireless and Lyrical for such an enormous voice, compared to the Great German Wagnerian Helden, Lorenz and Volker were excellent, but Melchior had something else that made your hair stand on end on the back of your neck, I would opine that no one before or after him matched his Performances, in the long run he was THE Wagnerian Tenor Par excellence the Sprechegesang of Wagner was perfect for him. Yet he had an High C that was easy. The entire cast is Excellent. List Dark and Menacing , Lehmann lyrical and a Beautiful rendition of Sieglinde, Schorr rather tight at the top in this period, but he still was a Master, Thorborg, Tall and Beautiful with a voice of pure gold. Marjorie Lawrence I always admire, to many purists she was rather dull, but I find her excellent, the others all were fine singers, I think that Reiner got the best out of Melchior, but Leinsdorf gave Melchior plenty of chance to show off his magnificence, I think Wagner would have loved it.

@BestOperaMoments 2 жыл бұрын

Indeed. I prefer Schorr to Huehn in the NY recording from the same year.

@BaroneVitellioScarpia1 2 жыл бұрын

@@BestOperaMoments I prefer Hofmann over both Schorr and Huehn.

@gerhardrohne2261 2 жыл бұрын

never mind your new world view : but even from records the berlin casts in the forties where part for part equal or better -and more engaging and exiting - than their new york counterparts: Bockelmann! Leider! Loremz! Müller! Völker! Klose! Rode...

@Ian-u5f 29 күн бұрын

How wonderful that these performances with so many different and excellent singers are able to inhabit the Wagner roles so effectively.There may have been just as excellent singer/performers in the past but we can only read about them from contemporary critics.As is displayed by the many contributors on this site voices are a very individual passion and what pleases one will not necessarily please another.Enjoy the rich choices.Ian

@geoffreyriggs2397 4 ай бұрын

Those with sharp ears will notice that a few seconds after Sieglinde's exit in Act 3, we switch to another Leinsdorf performance from earlier that season. All copies I've heard of this performance have an unfortunate lacuna at this point and only pick up the thread after Bruennhilde's come out of hiding with her "Hier bin ich, Vater" line. So Lawrence's utterance of that line is forever lost. Here, this upload plainly fills in the missing line -- all the missing three or so minutes -- from the earlier Leinsdorf Walkuere that season which has survived. We can tell it's that earlier performance because Flagstad was the Bruennhilde and not Lawrence and, sure enough, it's recognizably Flagstad who sings that line in this upload. You can hear the whole sequence by starting in at around 2 hours 40 minutes with Lawrence and Lehmann still singing together; then, a few seconds after Lehmann exits, there's a discrete but relatively smooth switch before Schorr's entrance, and we're into the earlier Walkuere broadcast of that season. We stick with that earlier broadcast through a recognizable Flagstad uttering her first line out of hiding and then switch back to the Lawrence performance half a minute or so after that. (Schorr was the Wotan in both performances.)

@ciroalb3 7 ай бұрын

I have a pristine copy of the 78 album. Only played it once to record it. You can sometimes "hear" the studio on the records

@davidhansel897 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for posting this! Act 2: 1:00:36 Act 3: 2:28:15

@BaroneVitellioScarpia1 2 жыл бұрын

Marjorie Lawrence and Emanuel List are great too.

@BestOperaMoments 2 жыл бұрын

I actually slightly prefer Lawrence's Brunnhilde to her Sieglinde. But Flagstad was superior in both roles and that's why Lawrence had to settle for the smaller Sieglinde in the NY run. Here with Lehmann replacing Flagstad it would be a no-brainer. Also, I actually prefer Schorr's Gunther from 1937 where he was still in prime vocal form when compared to the two Wotan's from 1940 and 41.