Recorded September 1927 in Berlin with Leo Blech conducting and Friedrich Schorr as Wotan. Amazing performances by all and incredible sound quality considering the year.
@user-lh6ep3em6n9 күн бұрын
Her voice is astonishing!
@susannevollmer23472 жыл бұрын
Frida Leiders voice is overshining the whole and than her great emotional power.
@henningbeil87973 жыл бұрын
Frida Leider est ma soprano wagnérienne préférée. Son timbre est d'une beauté extraordinaire et sa technique frôle la perfection. Ce n'est pas étonnant qu'elle était également une Leonora (il Trovatore) sublime. Pour moi elle est unique.
@aprendizercomygor7 жыл бұрын
The best trills ever in this aria, really unsurpassed. She has better trills than most great coloratura sopranos.
@Toscarpia4 жыл бұрын
Indeed ! And God knows that a REAL trill is not a common thing !
@petatap37372 жыл бұрын
This is NOT an aria :)
@aprendizercomygor2 жыл бұрын
@@petatap3737 technically not, but let us be honest: it has all the trappings and structure of one, so in practice after all is said and done and dogmatic points aside it is pretty much an aria. Wagner just "diluted" the arias, duets, trios and other musical excerpts in a more seamless and continuous musical line.
@hrh496111 ай бұрын
@@aprendizercomygor Puhleeze! Yes, let's be honest. This selection is nothing like an aria. "....all the trappings and structure of one." Are you shitting me?!?!
@aprendizercomygor11 ай бұрын
@@hrh4961 rabid Wagnerian worshipper detected
@jasonhurd43795 жыл бұрын
Absolutely perfect trills! It is as if Selma Kurz suddenly acquired a Brünnhilde-voice! Thank you so much!
@Shahrdad2 жыл бұрын
This is the best version of this, with that perfect Brrrrrrr of a trill. Other sopranos I've heard trill in this are Gwyneth Jones (I was surprised that she did) and Jane Eaglen. Neither Flagstad, nor Traubel, nor Nilsson, nor Grob-Prandl sang the trills.
@BaroneVitellioScarpia12 жыл бұрын
What a voice!
@michsturge6716 жыл бұрын
I first heard this spectacular dramatic soprano trills around 30 years and they still send chills up my spine. Melchior felt Leider was his BEST Wagner partner hands down. His dislike of Flagstad's voice is well known.
@mikeb64503 жыл бұрын
Not her voice but her personality and stage demeanor. He told Flagstad she could use something of Lotte Lehmann's personal involvement and passion as Sieglinde , after Flagstad had disparaged Lehmann. That started their quarrel. But I've never heard he had any objection to Flagstad's voice per se.
@hrh496111 ай бұрын
@@mikeb6450 LM said singing with KF was like singing with a diamond; singing with Helen Traubel was like singing with a ruby.
@DonDonadio6 жыл бұрын
The only Brunnhilde I have hears who actually had a trill.
@garfieldmoore96325 жыл бұрын
Hear Gertrude Prob-Randl and Rita Hunter
@tantris394 жыл бұрын
I suppose we will never hear anything of Callas' Brunhilde.....imagine that!
@tantris394 жыл бұрын
It sure is!
@n.t.12654 жыл бұрын
@@tantris39 flagstad had also a good trill.
@tantris394 жыл бұрын
@@n.t.1265 She sure did.
@gemstone2121216 жыл бұрын
What is the orchestra, the tenor, the date, please. And the trills are most impressive.
@JoanSutherlandFan6 жыл бұрын
Recorded 1927 Brunnhilde: Frida Leider Sieglinde: Gota Ljungberg Fricka: Emmi Leisner Wotan: Friedrich Schorr Valkyries: Gota Ljungberg, Elfriede Marcherr, Genia Guszalewicz, Alberti, Kindermann Berlin State Opera Orchestra Leo Blech, conductor ;)
@gemstone2121216 жыл бұрын
Danke schön! And thanks for posting this great video! Glad such artistry from so long ago can still be heard.
@ransomcoates5462 жыл бұрын
Tenor??? It’s the celebrated bass-baritone Friedrich Schorr.
@1psoas93 жыл бұрын
When was it recorded? That sounds like Melchior....
@alejandraponce56292 жыл бұрын
Friedrich Schorr as Wotan
@leoedwards62894 жыл бұрын
The only way to sing Wagner is bel canto.
@jasonhurd43794 жыл бұрын
@@-uda2672 Wrong wrong wrong. When coaching his singers, he begged them to always remember the bel canto technique, and on several occasions he extolled Bellini as the master of the long line. It was Wagner's followers and hangers-on who disdained bel canto, not the Master himself. Even Cosima, who should have known better, looked down her hawklike nose at XIXth-century Italian opera.
@manolis.7993 жыл бұрын
@@-uda2672 Wagner personally directed a production of Bellini’s Norma. He also wrote an insertion aria and cabaletta for Oroveso
@elektra94743 жыл бұрын
@@-uda2672 No he didn't. He opposed the popular grand operas of the time such as those by Meyerbeer - but he would have been used to singers who had been trained in the bel canto tradition. Unfortunately that has all seems to have gone, and audiences just want to hear Wagner being sung by loud shouty voices.
@pietrodi1 Жыл бұрын
impressive, shocking interpretation!
@petergiljum11 ай бұрын
❤❤❤
@Tkimba25 жыл бұрын
DIVINA
@lucianoserra5907 ай бұрын
What was her voice type (Fach)?
@JoanSutherlandFan7 ай бұрын
She's a dramatic soprano. One of the few who could trill brilliantly! Although this crystalline trill, her voice was very deep, huge and emotional.
@lucianoserra5907 ай бұрын
@@JoanSutherlandFan Thank you!
@RoundTopFestivalInstitute4 жыл бұрын
Let us dream of the trill started on the appoggiatura and by doing so there is no stop before the end...
@tantris394 жыл бұрын
This is not French baroque music.
@manolis.7993 жыл бұрын
Sigh, some people could have the original Brünnhilde herself singing it and they’d still find something to complain about And yeah above commenter is right, why would the trill start on the appoggiatura?
@DonDonadio2 жыл бұрын
I do not remember recognize a trill in anything Jones sang
@michaelpapadopoulos5450 Жыл бұрын
Almost all her singing resembles a trill because of the wobble...
@hrh496111 ай бұрын
@@michaelpapadopoulos5450 She was known in our house as Gwinnie Wobbles. That said, she was a magnificent artist who sang too much and paid the price.