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Catalogue | Voice
Kirsten Flagstad sings Wagner & Strauss
Even in the twilight of her illustrious career, which lasted over three decades, Kirsten Flagstad was still in command of her incomparably rich voice. 
Richard Wagner
Kirsten Flagstad sings Wagner & Strauss
- Wesendonck-Lieder
- Der Engel (03:26)
- Stehe still (03:41)
- Im Treibhaus (07:45)
- Schmerzen (02:21)
- Träume (05:19)
- Tristan und Isolde
- Vorspiel zum ersten Aufzug (09:57)
- Isoldes Erzählung und Fluch (1. Aufzug, 3. Szene) (08:39)
- Isoldes Klage und Liebestod (Ende 3. Aufzug) (13:27)
- Vier letzte Lieder
- Nr. 3: Beim Schlafengehen (05:07)
- Nr. 2: September (04:55)
- Nr. 4: Im Abendrot (08:31)
- Elektra
- Monolog der Elektra | „Orest! Orest! – O lass deine Augen…“ (05:42)
- Götterdämmerung
- Brünnhildes Schlußgesang „Starke Scheite…“ (18:00)
These recordings were made on 9 and 11 May 1952 and document the latter part of Kirsten Flagstad’s career. They were made a few weeks before her 57th birthday, thus at a time when most sopranos will have been forced to change over to the so-called character fach. The Norwegian soprano however, even at this late stage, was still in almost full command of her incomparably rich voice, even after a demanding career spanning over three decades.
The present recordings of two concerts given at the Berlin Titania-Palast with the Orchestra of the Municipal Opera are particularly noteworthy: on the one hand, the Wagner songs sound fresher and more present than in the recording made four years later under Hans Knappertsbusch; on the other, the Berlin live-recording of the Strauss songs is technically far superior to the recording made in London. By the way, in May 1950 Kirsten Flagstad had given the first performance of the “Four Last Songs” by Richard Strauss – at the request of the composer.
A tribute to her unique status was also the multitude of her concert engagements: During the course of her career, she sang more than eighty parts in around 2100 performances and also gave approximately 250 concerts with orchestra and 600 recitals.
For this production there are two “Producer’s Comments”:
- Producer's Comment by producer Ludger Böckenhoff/audite
- Producer's Comment by Rüdiger Albrecht/audio archives Deutschlandradio Kultur
The production is part of our series “Legendary Recordings” and bears the quality feature “1st Master Release”. This term stands for the excellent quality of archival productions at audite. For all historical publications at audite are based, without exception, on the original tapes from broadcasting archives. In general these are the original analogue tapes, which attain an astonishingly high quality, even measured by today‘s standards, with their tape speed of up to 76 cm/sec. The remastering – professionally competent and sensitively applied – also uncovers previously hidden details of the interpretations. Thus, a sound of superior quality results. CD publications based on private recordings from broadcasts or old shellac records cannot be compared with these.
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American Record Guide
| January 1, 2011
These recordings were made in May 1952 by RIAS broadcast engineers. The orchestra is from the West Berlin Civic Opera, a very good group of players....
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ARCS Journal
| March 30, 2011
Audite has also issued Kirsten Flagstad: Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss, broadcast recordings made on 9 and 11 May 1952, and featuring the...
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Audiophile Audition
| Gary Lemco | October 28, 2010
Mezzo-soprano Kirsten Flagstad (1895-1962) owned “the voice of the century” for generations of music lovers; her strength, throaty volume, and...
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BBC Music Magazine
| Michael Tanner | January 12, 2010
The power and beauty of Flagstad's voice is always a shock. In these concerts she was 57, but the splendour of her sound and the depth of her feeling... -
Classica – le meilleur de la musique classique & de la hi-fi
| André Tubeuf | January 2, 2011
Kirsten Flagstad dans sa lumineuse placidité de 1952 avec Sebastian à Berlin: Wesendonck sublimes, Isolde plus risquée, un peu d'Elektra (Orest!),...
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Der neue Merker
| Dorothea Zweipfennig | January 8, 2010
Die große, besondere Stimme der Flagstad erklinge in diesen Live-Mitschnitten nach wie vor voll und rund. Ganz wunderbar „Schmerzen“, das 4. der...
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Diapason
| Jean-Charles Hoffelé | January 12, 2010
Georges Sebastian et Kirsten Flagstad se vouaient une estime mutuelle. Leurs nombreuses collaborations wagnériennes (au palais Garnier notamment)... -
Diverdi Magazin
| Miguel Ángel González Barrio | January 2, 2011
Penúltimas lecciones
Debut y despedida de Flagstad en el Berlín de 1952
Los días 9 y ıı de mayo de 1952, un mes después de su despedida del Met y uno antes de grabar el mítico Tristán e Isolda con Furtwängler,... -
Fanfare
| James A. Altena | January 3, 2011
Audite has performed an invaluable service in unearthing and making available these magnificent radio broadcast performances of the legendary...
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Fono Forum
| Andreas Kunz | January 12, 2011
Empfehlungen unserer Mitarbeiter 2011
Historische Aufnahme des Jahres: - "Kirsten Flagstad singt Lieder von Wagner und Strauss" (Audite): In puncto Klangvolumen bleibt ihre Stimme wohl... -
Fono Forum
| Bjorn Woll | January 3, 2011
Starke Stimmen für starke Scheite
Drei hochdramatische Soprane erinnern auf Platte an ein goldenes Zeitalter des Gesangs. Im Zentrum steht dabei vor allem ein Komponist: Richard... -
International Record Review
| January 12, 2010
Walter, Flagstad and Knappertsbusch
Bruno Walter is on coruscating form in Beethoven's Egmont Overture at the start of a Salzburg Festival concert with the Vienna Philharmonic, given on... -
klassik.com
| Dr. Claudia Maria Korsmeier | April 23, 2011
Kritik zu Audite: Kirsten Flagstad singt: Lieder von Wagner und Strauss
Altersgrenzen?
Nicht nur in der sogenannten U-Musik ist eines der großen, nahezu... -
Kulturspiegel
| Johannes Saltzwedel | January 10, 2010
Längst sind Ludger Böckenhoffs Remasterings alter Rundfunkbänder ein...
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L'éducation musicale
| Francis Gérimont | January 10, 2010
Voix grandiose et grandioses visions d’une frémissante humanité… En 1925, à Berlin, Kirsten Flagstad interprétait, de Wagner, les...
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La Musica
| January 8, 2010
Wagner & R. Strauss
koreanische Rezension siehe PDF... -
Main-Echo
| Stefan Reis | April 9, 2010
Vollkommenheit
Um zu verstehen, wieso Kirsten Flagstad 48 Jahre nach ihrem Tod noch immer Maßstab für Wagner-Interpreten ist, muss nur in die nun von audite... -
Opera Nederland
| - | January 11, 2010
De twee concerten, die Kirsten Flagstad (1895 – 1962) in mei 1952 gaf in het Titania-Palast van Berlijn met het Orchester der Städtischen Oper...
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orpheus
| St. | January 9, 2010
Die beiden Konzerte, die die norwegische Sopranistin Kirsten Flagstad (Foto OBA) 1952 im Berliner Titania-Palast gegeben hat, sind als Aufnahme des...
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Pizzicato
| Rémy Franck | January 11, 2010
Sensationelle Flagstad
Audite macht mit diesem Doppelalbum direkt sensationelle Dokumente zugänglich: Sie entstanden am 9. und 11. Mai 1952 im Berliner Titania-Palast und... -
Rondo
| Michael Wersin | January 9, 2010
Der charakteristische Klang ihrer gewaltigen Stimme prägte Jahrzehnte des Wagnergesangs: Die Norwegerin Kirsten Flagstad ist bis heute nicht...
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Sunday Times
| David Cairns | May 12, 2010
Sunday Times classical records of the year - The great Norwegian soprano was in her mid-fifties when she gave these Berlin concerts, but the beauty...
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SWR
| Dr. Dieter David Scholz | September 25, 2010
Am Mikrofon begrüßt Sie Dieter David Scholz ______________________________________________________________________ Musik 1 Ghirardello da...
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The Epoch Times
| Michael Sherwin | April 26, 2011
Kirsten Flagstad: Live in Havana and Berlin
Two recently issued and historically significant CDs allow us to hear the mature Kirsten Flagstad (1895-1962) in postwar live performances in... -
thewholenote.com
| Bruce Surtees | January 9, 2010
Old wine in new bottles – Fine old recordings
Following the Second World War the music world awaited the return of Kirsten Flagstad to the stage and recording studio. In the 1930s when the... -
Wochen-Kurier
| Michael Karrass | September 22, 2010
Die vorliegenden Aufnahmen vom 9. und 11. Mai 1952 gehören zu den späten Dokumenten von Kirsten Flagstad. Sie sind wenige Wochen vor ihrem 57....
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www.opusklassiek.nl
| Aart van der Wal | January 11, 2010
Op het stofomslag van het tweede deel uit Jürgen Kestings monumentale (ruim zeven kilo wegende!), vierdelige standaardwerk Die großen Sänger prijkt...
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www.ResMusica.com
| Pierre Degott | January 10, 2010
Kirsten Flagstad, quand la voix se sculpte dans le marbre!
Le présent album propose la captation de deux concerts donnés par Kirsten Flagstad à Berlin en mai 1952, sans doute à une période où la grande...
Kirsten Flagstad sings Wagner & Strauss (audite 23.416)
| article number: | 23.416 |
| EAN barcode: | 4022143234162 |
| price group: | BCA |
| release date: | 6. August 2010 |
| total time: | 96 min. |
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