I remember borrowing this recording's CD from the media library, back in the 90s, in France. At the time, I was just listening to everything I could get my hands on. I remember choosing this CD because it looked like one those "legendary" recordings people talk about. Plus I had heard Mrs Flagstad" name mentioned somewhere. So I took the CD home. After playing other stuff I had borrowed, I put this on in my CD player. Never in a million years had I imagined I would be exposed to such grace, such beauty. And yet there is always a tragic overtone to this cycle. It was as if I had waited my entire life for this. In approximately the same time frame, I also discovered another miraculous work of art. The Vier Letzte Lieder. In my mind, the orchestral Lied is a concentrated form of everything we love in symphonic and lyrical music. This is why it is so powerfully expressive.
Not only the most beautiful voice I have heard singing , but the serenity of her singing is such that it touches the mystical!
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Wanted to write 'if only the stars of the recent times had the mercy to retire in such a good state as Flagstad here', but such singers are rare that sing in their best years as good as this marvelous lady sang on her FAREWELL concert. Eternal glory!
John Ruggeri What a cute way of referring to the great singer's age! She sounds like she would be a very young woman in the lighter passages. I believe she worked very hard to learn superb singing and breath support, and that is why her voice lasted so long and retained almost all of its golden sound right to the end. She built her voice up so correctly that it was indestructible!
Considero sua interpretação de “Im Treibhaus” uma das glórias das gravações existentes, entre todas aquelas realizadas, desde o início do século passado.
Wow so this is what actual singing is supposed to sound like. And the orchestra plays with an honest impassioned heart instead of the lying false heart of lacquer and plastic
Wagner and Flagstad define what it is to be human. Anyone embedding commercials in this music defines the inhuman and should be fed to hungry Mako sharks in a televised spectacle, and all money raised therefrom going to opera, poetry, and all other art and artists condemned by New Philistia. Fuckless scumbaggery to slash into Dreams with ads earns Roman, or shall we say Wagnerian punishment.
How satisfying to actually hear the poetry delivered with humanity and conviction and without destroying the absolute beauty of the voice.
I remember borrowing this recording's CD from the media library, back in the 90s, in France. At the time, I was just listening to everything I could get my hands on. I remember choosing this CD because it looked like one those "legendary" recordings people talk about. Plus I had heard Mrs Flagstad" name mentioned somewhere. So I took the CD home.
After playing other stuff I had borrowed, I put this on in my CD player.
Never in a million years had I imagined I would be exposed to such grace, such beauty. And yet there is always a tragic overtone to this cycle. It was as if I had waited my entire life for this.
In approximately the same time frame, I also discovered another miraculous work of art. The Vier Letzte Lieder.
In my mind, the orchestral Lied is a concentrated form of everything we love in symphonic and lyrical music. This is why it is so powerfully expressive.
You found a fine pairing, Strauss and Wagner...and Flagstad. Bonne
continuation.
Flagstad’s rendition of “Im Treibhaus” is unearthly. It transports one to another sphere. Let us not forget that she is magnificently accompanied.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MADAME FLAGSTAD, HERE ON 12 JULY, 1895. I NEVER TIRE OF YOUR GORGEOUS SINGING, BREATH CONTROL, INTERPRETATION OF TEXT.
Not only the most beautiful voice I have heard singing , but the serenity of her singing is such that it touches the mystical!
Wanted to write 'if only the stars of the recent times had the mercy to retire in such a good state as Flagstad here', but such singers are rare that sing in their best years as good as this marvelous lady sang on her FAREWELL concert. Eternal glory!
Yes, if only they could sing as well as Flagstad …
Der Engel 0:00
Stehe Still 3:25
Im Treibhaus 7:10
Schmerzen 14:50
Traume 17:12
there is no way to describe the sound of Flagstad, and this is unbelievably beautiful, beautiful.
Peter Lunow totally agree
La grande et incontournable FLAGSTAD
The most gorgeous rendition of the Wesendonk lieder I have ever heard. And to think she was 60!
cantorandopera La dulzura de Kirsten Flastagt
I'm forever thankful being able to listen to her. With every single note, she is telling what the human body and voice are capable of.
Großartig 👍💐
Such a glorious voice... Thank you for sharing.
Flagstad makes a human being proud to be as such, period.
Wonderful
No one told this glorious singer and her voice that they were 60 years old.
John Ruggeri What a cute way of referring to the great singer's age! She sounds like she would be a very young woman in the lighter passages. I believe she worked very hard to learn superb singing and breath support, and that is why her voice lasted so long and retained almost all of its golden sound right to the end. She built her voice up so correctly that it was indestructible!
Beautiful voice for ever!!!
Considero sua interpretação de “Im Treibhaus” uma das glórias das gravações existentes, entre todas aquelas realizadas, desde o início do século passado.
Una de las mejores wagnerianas, gracias
Junto a Nilsson las dos mas grandes
Göttlich....
Monumental
Hervorragend !!!
una fuerza de la naturaleza, y con esa adorable carita de angel inocente,la adoro
Simplemente Maravillosa
Unsurpassed!
Wow so this is what actual singing is supposed to sound like. And the orchestra plays with an honest impassioned heart instead of the lying false heart of lacquer and plastic
j'en suis littéralement sans voix! L'art du chant, le timbre de voix...c'est immortel!
The Best
wunderschööön
hören Sie auch die Lieder interpretiert von Violeta Urmana
Es una Vaquiria
Für immer unerreicht!
Au risque de me faire foudroyer par les wagnériens orthodoxes, je préfère ces lied à beaucoup d'opéras de Richard!
Sense paraules...
Wagner and Flagstad define what it is to be human. Anyone embedding commercials in this music defines the inhuman and should be fed to hungry Mako sharks in a televised spectacle, and all money raised therefrom going to opera, poetry, and all other art and artists condemned by New Philistia. Fuckless scumbaggery to slash into Dreams with ads earns Roman, or shall we say Wagnerian punishment.