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Lauritz Melchior: The Portrait | Documents 231670

Lauritz Melchior: The Portrait

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Cat No: 231670

Barcode: 4011222316707

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 4

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 6th October 2008

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Artists

Lauritz Melchior (tenor)

Artists

Lauritz Melchior (tenor)

About

A portrait of Lauritz Melchior, the great Danish heroic tenor, featuring his most famous roles including Wagner’s “Tannhäuser”and “Siegmund” (Valkyrie) and Verdi‘s “Othello”.

Melchior was apparently capable of singing difficult roles from the beginning to the end of his career and was just as much at home performing a subtly nuanced, wide variety of tonal colours as he was interpreting extended, breathtaking legato lines.

These recordings were made with outstanding orchestras between 1923 and 1938: London Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera, RCA Viktor Symphony Orchestra and Philadelphia Orchestra. Melchior’s voice was an unprecedented “powerful tenor simultaneously dark and brilliant – and no-one has managed to succeed him to this very day.” (Michael Scott)

Contents:
CD 1
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
1. Tannhäuser (Tannhäuser)
2. Tristan und Isolde (Tristan)
3. Götterdämmerung (Siegfried)
4. Rienzi (Rienzi)

Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864)
5. L’Africaine (Vasco da Gama)

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
6. Otello (Otello)

Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1858-1919)
7-11. I pagliacci (sung in German)

London Symphony Orchestra
John Barbirolli / Albert Coates / Robert Heger
Recorded in: 1923, 1929, 1930

CD 2
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
- Die Walküre
Lotte Lehmann, Emanuel List, Wiener Philharmoniker
Bruno Walter
Recorded in: 1935

CD 3
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
- Siegfried (Siegfried)
- Lohengrin (Lohengrin)
Kirsten Flagstad, Karl Laufkötter, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra,
Artur Bodanzky / Edwin McArthur / Erich Leinsdorf
Recorded in: 1937, 1940, 1943

CD 4
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Tristan und Isolde
Kirsten Flagstad, Sabine Kalter, London Philharmonic Orchestra
Fritz Reiner
Recorded in: 1936

Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Götterdämmerung (Siegfried)
Kirsten Flagstad, Friedrich Schorr, Lieselotte Topas, Rudolf Watzke, San Francisco Opera Orchestra, Berliner Staatsopernorchester
Edwin McArthur / Leo Blech
Recorded in: 1929, 1939

Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
- Parsifal (Parsifal)
- Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Elisabeth Schumann, Friedrich Schorr, Gladys Parr, Ben Williams, Philadelphia Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra
Eugene Ormandy / Lawrence Collingwood / Robert Heger / John Barbirolli
Recorded in: 1931, 1938

Total Time: 66:32

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