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Wagner: Recital - Flagstad, Nilsson, Hoffman, London, Knappertsbusch

Tower Universal Vintage  PROC-2199 (2 discs)

Stereo Hybrid

Classical - Opera

Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder*, excerpts from Lohengrin*, Die Walküre*^^, Parsifal*, Tristan und Isolde**^, Der fliegende Holländer^^, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg^^, Götterdämmerung

Kirsten Flagstad*, Birgit Nilsson** (sopranos)
Grace Hoffmann^ (mezzo)
George London^^ (bass-baritone)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Hans Knappertsbusch (conductor)

All

Recording

Analogue recording

Works (15)

• Richard Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer, WWV 63 Act I: Die Frist ist um
• Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, WWV 96 Act II: Was duftet doch der Flieder
• Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, WWV 96 Act III: Wahn! Wahn!
• Richard Wagner: Die Walküre, WWV 86B Act I: Der Männer Sippe saß hier im Saal
• Richard Wagner: Die Walküre, WWV 86B Act I: Du bist der lenz
• Richard Wagner: Die Walküre, WWV 86B Act III: Leb wohl, du kühnes, herrliches Kind!
• Richard Wagner: Die Walküre, WWV 86B Act III: Magic Fire Music
• Richard Wagner: Gedichte (5), WWV 91 'Wesendonck-Lieder'
• Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D Act III: Siegfrieds Funeral March
• Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D Prologue: Dawn and Siegfrieds Rhein Journey
• Richard Wagner: Lohengrin, WWV 75 Act I: Einsam in truben Tagen
• Richard Wagner: Parsifal, WWV 111 Act II: Ich sah das Kind
• Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90 Act I: Prelude
• Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90 Act I: Weh, ach wehe! Dies zu dulden
• Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90 Act III: Liebestod