Kirsten Flagstad: Live in Concert, 1949-1957 (CD)

The legendary soprano Kirsten Flagstad possessed what many consider to be the most beautiful voice ever captured on recordings. This disc presents live concerts performed for the radio, 1949-1957.
[2006, Mono, 66 minutes]

Wagner: Der Fliegende Holländer - Trafft ihr das Schiff
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde - O sink'hernieder (with Set Svanholm) / Liebestod

San Francisco Opera Orchestra
Gaetano Merola, conductor
(October 9, 1949)

*****

R. Strauss: Befreit / Allerseelen / Cäcilie
Wagner: Götterdämmerung - Starke Scheite schichtet mir dort (Immolation Scene)

San Francisco Opera Orchestra
Gaetano Merola, conductor
(October 8, 1950)

*****

Gluck: Alceste (sung in Norwegian and Danish)
- Immortel Apollon! / Où suis-je? Ô malheureuse Alceste! (with Niels Mollner) / Divinités du Styx

Orchestra and Chorus of the Danish Radio
Johann Hye-Knudsen, conductor
(April 14, 1957)