Set Svanholm
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Wagner: Das Rheingold
George London (Wotan), Kirsten Flagstad (Fricka), Claire Watson (Freia), Set Svanholm (Loge), Waldemar Kmentt (Froh), Eberhard Wächter (Donner), Paul Kuen (Mime), Jean Madeira (Erda), Gustav Neidlinger (Alberich), Walter Kreppel (Fasolt), Kurt Böhme (Fafner)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg...
I’m in no doubt that the sound quality is significantly better than Decca have been able to achieve on previous issues of this recording. There’s only one word for it: stunning. You really have... — More…
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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
RecommendedDas Rheingold
George London (Wotan), Kirsten Flagstad (Fricka), Claire Watson (Freia), Set Svanholm (Loge), Waldemar Kmentt (Froh), Eberhard Wächter (Donner), Paul Kuen (Mime), Jean Madeira (Erda), Gustav Neidlinger (Alberich), Walter Kreppel (Fasolt), Kurt Böhme (Fafner),...
a living, convincing, whole, holistic and vibrant experience is just what this edition delivers...it faithfully reflects the spaciousness and appropriate aura that would have been experienced... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 9th Awards (1966), Best Opera Recording
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Kathleen Ferrier in New York
John Newmark (piano), Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), Set Svanholm (tenor)
New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Bruno Walter
This disc is a musical time capsule in many ways, above all for Ferrier’s divine singing under Walter’s baton of Das Lied von der Erde… ‘Der Abschied’ is magical: her voice is so fresh, gloriously... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2020, Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month
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Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72
Two legendary performances from the New York Met, 1941 & 1951
February 22, 1941 broadcast: Kirsten Flagstad (Leonore), René Maison (Florestan), Julius Huehn (Don Pizarro), Alexander Kipnis (Rocco), Marita Farell (Marzelline), Karl Laufkoetter (Jaquino), Herbert Janssen (Don Fernando). March 10, 1951 matinee broadcast: Kirsten Flagstad (Leonore), Set Svanholm...
Two live Met versions (1941 and 1951) of Beethoven's opera show little diminution in the power of Flagstad's Leonore and Walter's conducting. Good sound. — More…
4 CDs
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Wagner: Götterdämmerung: excerpts
(from the 1954 Covent Garden Season)
Set Svanholm (Siegfried), Hermann Uhde (Gunther), Margaret Harshaw (Brünnhilde), Dezsoe Ernster (Hagen), Elfriede Wasserthal (Gutrune), Otakar Kraus (Alberich), Joan Sutherland (Woglinde), Rosina Raisbeck (Wellgunde) & Marjorie Thomas (Flosshilde)
The Covent Garden Orchestra, Fritz Stiedry
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Wagner: Die Walküre: Act 1
Set Svanholm, Birgit Nilsson & Josef Greindl
NDR Sinfonieorchester, Schmidt-Isserstedt
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Wagner: The Operas
Recommendedincluding the Ring cycle
Norman Bailey (Der Holländer), Janis Martin (Senta), René Kollo (Erik), Martti Talvela (Daland), Werner Krenn (Der Steuermann), Isola Jones (Mary), Plácido Domingo (Lohengrin), Jessye Norman (Elsa), Siegmund Nimsgern (Telramund), Eva Randová (Ortrud), Han Sotin (Landgraf), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau...
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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18 Royal Swedish Tenors
Lars Rosen (tenor), Helge Brilioth (tenor), Rolf Bjorling (tenor), Sven-Erik Vikstrom (tenor), Ragnar Ulfung (tenor), Birgin Nordin (soprano), Nicolai Gedda (tenor), Per Grunden (tenor), Gosta Bjorling (tenor), Conny Soderstrom (tenor), Arne Ohlson (tenor), Jussi Bjorling (tenor), Einar Andersson...
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Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer
Hertha Glaz, Thomas Haysward, Hans Hoffer, Set Svanhlom, Astird Varnay
New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Fritz Reiner
...a searingly dramatic performance under Fritz Reiner with a cast as starry as one could imagine. Reiner's conducting is urgent and intense from start to finish, with Hans Hotter in his prime... — More…
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