Wagner: Die Walküre
Lauritz Melchior (Siegmund), Astrid Varnay (Sieglinde), Helen Traubel (Brünnhilde), Friedrich Schorr (Wotan), Kerstin Thorborg (Fricka)
New York Metropolitan Opera and Chorus, Erich Leinsdorf
an electrifying performance, starrily cast, with radio sound giving clear focus to the voices...[Melchior] is in heroic voice...Varnay is a warm Sieglinde...Traubel sings with a rock-like firmness...
Wagner: Die Walküre
Lauritz Melchior (Siegmund), Astrid Varnay (Sieglinde), Helen Traubel (Brünnhilde), Friedrich Schorr (Wotan), Kerstin Thorborg (Fricka)
New York Metropolitan Opera and Chorus, Erich Leinsdorf
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an electrifying performance, starrily cast, with radio sound giving clear focus to the voices...[Melchior] is in heroic voice...Varnay is a warm Sieglinde...Traubel sings with a rock-like firmness...
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Mono; broadcast 6th December 1941
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2010 edition
an electrifying performance, starrily cast, with radio sound giving clear focus to the voices...[Melchior] is in heroic voice...Varnay is a warm Sieglinde...Traubel sings with a rock-like firmness that is all too rare in latter-day Wagner sopranos...Thorborg is a magnificent Fricka, and Alexander Kipnis a thrilling Hunding...Leinsdorf draws incandescent playing from the Met. Orchestra
