16 August 2019

Bruno Walter conducts & plays Wagner







Although all these live recordings are quite rare
and certainly valuable,
the big reason of interest are the "Wesendonck Lieder".

In fact, Walter is not on the podium: he sits at the piano
accompanying one of the greatest Wagnerian singers
of the XX Century, Kirsten Flagstad.


WAGNER
Siegfried Idyll

TRISTAN UND ISOLDE
Prelude & Liebestod
Margaret Marshall, sp

Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
BRUNO WALTER

July 14, 1953  (misdated on the booklet)



PARSIFAL
Prelude

New York Philharmonic Orchestra
BRUNO WALTER
March 23, 1952


Wesendonck-Lieder

Kirsten Flagstad, sp
BRUNO WALTER, pf

New York, Carnegie Hall
March 23, 1952


FLAC
(scans included)
time

7 comments:

  1. Guido16 August 2019 at 06:34

    https://drive.google.com/open?id=1lIokEKSOkfTaLWRdlYurE2vqEuKFnKOy

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  2. Peter Gutmann19 August 2019 at 10:27

    Thanks! And great timing - just yesterday I posted a survey of Walter's career on records with emphasis on the phases prior to his final and best-known Columbia Symphony stereo series. It's at: http://www.classicalnotes.net/features/walter.html

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  3. Guido23 August 2019 at 11:03

    Very nice coincidence. :)
    You're welcome!

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  4. koncordia25 August 2019 at 03:43

    Thank you.

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  5. george schatzkamer1 November 2019 at 13:02

    Guido,
    whoever you are-Thank you so very much for all of these treasures
    best wishes,
    george

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  6. Guido12 November 2019 at 13:33

    Thanks George, whoever... Well, Internet make it possible. A good mask instead everyday bad masks.

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  7. CHEVALSEING1 March 2021 at 11:11

    Thanks Guido, listening

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