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Nicht sehre dich Sorgeum mich (Sieglinde)
Fortdenn eile, nach Osten gewandt! (Brtinnhilde)
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17 ZuneuenThaten (Briinnhilde)
18 Lass'ich, Liebste,dich hierin (Siegfried)
r9 Oh! heilige Gotterl (Siegfried)
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contrived to give the effect of unbounded volume in the orchestra
without ever drowning the singers. And his synchronisation of the
voice and orchestra - a difficult task at Covent Garden - was so
perfect that not a phrase was blurred nor a syllable lost. For the first
time I began to sympathise with the German contention that Herr
Furtwaengler is the greatest living conductor. He gathered his orchestra almost in his arms and made them play, as someone put it, better
-From The Sunday TimesMay jo, 1937
than they knew..."
"...of the greatest importance are the two London Rings and the hope
that someday they will be made commercially available. The 1937 Act
III of Die Walkiire is Furtwdngler's most exciting and theatrical
account of this music, with all the music's rhphms and emotions
sharpenedto a glistening point. He is staunchly abettedby Flagstad's
heroic Brtinnhilde, Rudolf Bockelmann's vivid Wotan, and an orchestra well practiced in this music under both Furtwlngler and Sir
Thomas Beecham.
Almost as heated as his London third act of Walkilre but not
nearly as finished orchestrally are excerpts from the ry37 Gdtterdiimrnerung with Flagstad, Lauritz Melchior, Kerstin Thorborg, Herbert
fanssen, and Ludwig Weber. The orchestra responds with enthusiasm,
but all too often the string attacks and ensemble are poor. Though
Flagstad displays less involvement here, the performance
is enriched by Thorborg's magnificent Waltraute and Melchior's
mighty Siegfried. There is also an extended second-actexcerpt from the
ry38 Gdtterddmmerungthat provides a glimpse of Frida Leider's fabled
Bri.innhilde (we have, too, her brilliant "Ho-jo-to-ho" from the same
year's Walkilre). Her Siegfried is also Melchior, again in full splendor,
while fanssen repeats his superb Gunther. In all candor, Covent
Garden's chorus during this period left a great deal to be desired, and
the sound, though impressive for its day, is hardly first-class. It is, however, sufficiently forward and clean to make clear the wonder of what
is happening.
From fohn Ardoiru The Furtwtingler Record,Portland, Oregon, Amadeus
Press, @ 1994, Reprinted with the permission of the author.
The following excerpts reproduced from HMV test pressings; previously released by our
forerunner Educational Media Associates of America, Inc. on iong-playing records
RR4r7 (Walkiire, Act III; 1978) and RR4z9 (z LPs, 1978, including slightly more material from Gdtterddmmerung than appears on these CDs). Further excerpts may exist of
Das Rheingold and. Siegfriedin EMI archives.
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From the performance of Wednesday, zG May ry37, Die Walkilre:
Act III complete with Kirsten Flagstad (Briinnhilde), Maria Miiller
(Sieglinde),Elsa Stenning (Helmwige), Mae Graven (Gerhilde),
Thelma Bardsley (Ortlinde), Linda Seymour (Waltraute), Edith Coates
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