'This knocks spots off anything from the continent in years' Michael Scott Rohan
Wagner
Die Walküre
Stig Andersen (Siegmund), Yvonne Howard (Sieglinde), Clive Bayley (Hunding), Eglis Silins (Wotan), Susan Bullock (Brünnhilde), Susan Bickley (Fricka), Miranda Keys (Gerhilde), Elaine McKrill (Ortlinde), Sarah Castle (Waltraute), Linda Finnie (Schwertleite), Katherine Broderick (Helmwige), Alison Kettlewell (Siegrune), Ceri Williams (Grimgerde), Leah Marian Jones (Rossweisee); The Hallé/Sir Mark Elder
Hallé HLD 7531 247:50 (4 discs)
Audio clip: from Act III, Prelude and Scene I
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