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The Beecham Collection: Flagstad & Wagner

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Catalogue No: SOMM-BEECHAM 20
Release Date: 2007-02-01
Number of Discs: 1
EAN/UPC: 748871352025
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The opening piece is the gloriously conducted ‘Overture to The Flying Dutchman’. Kirsten Flagstad has a beautiful voice and sings with consummate skill in the’Wesendonck Lieder’ and ‘Liebestod'(from ‘Isolde’). – First Authorised Release.

SIR THOMAS BEECHAM, Bart., C.H.
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Kirsten Flagstad – Soprano.

The usual stunning Beecham conducting. Flagstad also speaks about her singing approach to Wagner – it should be required listening for all young singers today!

Released in collaboration with the Sir Thomas Beecham Trust in support of the Scholarship Fund.

On This Recording

  1. Der fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman): Der fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman): Overture
  2. Lohengrin: Lohengrin, Act I: Prelude
  3. 5 Gedichte fur eine Frauenstimme: No. 1. Der Engel (The Angel)
  4. 5 Gedichte fur eine Frauenstimme: No. 2. Stehe still (Stand Still)
  5. 5 Gedichte fur eine Frauenstimme: No. 3. Im Treibhaus (In the Hothouse)
  6. 5 Gedichte fur eine Frauenstimme: No. 4. Schmerzen (Pain)
  7. 5 Gedichte fur eine Frauenstimme: No. 5. Traume (Dreams)
  8. Tristan und Isolde: Act III: Prelude
  9. Tristan und Isolde: Act III: Isolde's Liebestod
  10. Kirsten Flagstad: Talk on Singing Wagner