• 1957 Covent Garden Ring on Testament

    From gggg gggg@21:1/5 to Richard Loeb on Mon Feb 1 18:15:22 2021
    On Monday, February 18, 2008 at 9:07:43 AM UTC-8, Richard Loeb wrote:
    Testament has announced release of the 1957 Covent Garden Ring with the cast below - I have had a copy of that Ring for some years and it has some very strong points esp Kempe (very lyrical and better than the 1960 Bayreuth
    set); Nilsson is in great voice but dramatically unformed compared to her later work, Windgassen and Hotter are in very good voice - should eb worth hearing in a good remastering Richard
    Cover image in preparation
    Rudolf Kempe
    Wagner: Der Ring der Nibelungen
    Recorded at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in
    1957
    Das Rheingold (25 September)
    Woglinde - Joan Sutherland · Wellgunde - Una Hale ·
    Floßhilde - Marjorie Thomas
    Alberich - Otakar Kraus · Fricka - Georgine von
    Milinkovic · Wotan - Hans Hotter
    Freia - Elisabeth Lindemeier · Fasolt - Kurt Böhme ·
    Fafner - Frederick Dalberg
    Froh - Edgar Evans · Donner - Robert Allmann · Loge -
    Erich Witte
    Mime - Peter Klein · Erda - Maria von Ilosvay
    Die Walküre (27 September)
    Siegmund - Ramon Vinay · Sieglinde - Sylvia Fisher ·

    (Recent Youtube upload):

    Sylvia Fisher & Ramon Vinay - "Der Männer Sippe" DIE WALKÜRE (Wagner) 1957

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