Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder

The power and beauty of Flagstad’s voice is always a shock. In these concerts she was 57, but the splendour of her sound and the depth of her feeling make these excerpts indispensable. Michael Tanner


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Michael Tanner

Published: January 20, 2012 at 4:33 pm

COMPOSERS: Strauss,Wagner
LABELS: Audite
WORKS: Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder; Strauss: Four Last Songs; operatic extracts
PERFORMER: Kirsten Flagstad (soprano); Berlin State Opera Orchestra/Georges Sebastian
CATALOGUE NO: 23.416

The power and beauty of Flagstad’s voice is always a shock. In these concerts she was 57, but the splendour of her sound and the depth of her feeling make these excerpts indispensable. Michael Tanner

Michael Tanner

Journalist and Critic, BBC Music Magazine

Michael Tanner is a critic for BBC Music Magazine and the opera critic of The Spectator. He is now a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, having lectured in the Philosophy faculty at the University of Cambridge for 36 years. In 2010, he released The Faber Pocket Guide to Wagner.
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