Birgit Nilsson: The Great Live Recordings [1953-1976]

 
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BARTOK / R. STRAUSS / PUCCINI / BEETHOVEN / WAGNER
Birgit Nilsson: The Great Live Recordings [1953-1976]
Birgit Nilsson, with, Regina Resnik, Leonie Rysanek, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Jon Vickers, Helen Donath, Walter Berry, etc

[ Sony Classics / 31 CD Box Set ]

Release Date: Saturday 20 October 2018

Birgit Nilsson was a vocal phenomenon, 'in a class of her own'. To celebrate her centenary, this special limited edition Box set brings together for the first time, a collection of outstanding live recordings that capture her unrivalled & uniquely powerful voice from the stage.

Fully remastered from the original tapes, this attractive set of 31 CDs & accompanying book traces her phenomenal career & presents her landmark performances like never before.

Highlights include Die Walküre from the Metropolitan Opera conducted by Herbert von Karajan, three performances of Tristan und Isolde from Bayreuth, Vienna & Orange, two performances of Elektra from Montreal & the Metropolitan Opera and the exciting Turandot with Franco Corelli and Anna Moffo, from the Metropolitan Opera conducted by Leopold Stokowski. The set also includes rarities from her concerts in Stockholm.

"Many of these live recordings have been remastered, mostly very adequately, from radio broadcasts, and include samples at least of all her major roles...The casts for some of these performances are the stuff of legend now." The Guardian

Tracks:

Bartók: Duke Bluebeard's Castle, Sz. 48, Op. 11
Birgit Nilsson (Judith), Berhard Sönnerstedt (Bluebeard)

Wagner: Lohengrin
Theo Adam (König Heinrich), Wolfgang Windgassen (Lohengrin), Birgit Nilsson (Elsa)

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Wolfgang Windgassen (Tristan), Birgit Nilsson (Isolde), Grace Hoffman (Brangäne)

Wagner: Schlafst du, Gast? Ich bin's! (from Die Walküre)
Birgit Nilsson (Sieglinde), Ramón Vinay (Siegmund)

Wagner: Heil dir, Sonne! (from Siegfried)
Birgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde), Wolfgang Windgassen (Siegfried)

Puccini: Turandot
Birgit Nilsson (Turandot), Franco Corelli (Calàf), Anna Moffo (Liù), Bonaldo Giaiotti (Timur)

Strauss, R: Salome
Birgit Nilsson (Salome), Karl Liebl (Herodes), Irene Dalis (Herodias), Walter Cassel (Jochanaan)

Strauss, R: Elektra
Birgit Nilsson (Elektra), Leonie Rysanek (Chrysothemis), Regina Resnik (Klytämnestra), Gerd Nienstedt (Orest)

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Jess Thomas (Tristan), Birgit Nilsson (Isolde), Ruth Hesse (Brangäne), Otto Wiener (Kurwenal)

Wagner: Die Walküre
Birgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde), Jon Vickers (Siegmund), Régine Crespin (Sieglinde), Theo Adam (Wotan), Josephine Veasey (Fricka)

Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72
Birgit Nilsson (Leonore), Ludovic Spiess (Florestan), Theo Adam (Don Pizarro), Franz Crass (Rocco), Helen Donath (Marzelline)

Strauss, R: Elektra
Birgit Nilsson (Elektra), Leonie Rysanek (Chrysothemis), Jean Madeira (Klytämnestra), Thomas Stewart (Orest), Robert Nagy (Aegisth)

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Jon Vickers (Tristan), Birgit Nilsson (Isolde), Ruth Hesse (Brangäne), Walter Berry (Kurwenal), Bengt Rundgren (König Marke)

Strauss, R: Die Frau ohne Schatten
Ingrid Bjoner (Kaiserin), James King (Kaiser), Astrid Varnay (Amme), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Barak), Birgit Nilsson (Sein Weib)

Wagner: Starke Scheite schichtet mir dort 'Brünnhilde's Immolation Scene' (from Götterdämmerung)
Birgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde)
Sung in Swedish, Stockholm, 1953

Wagner: Starke Scheite schichtet mir dort 'Brünnhilde's Immolation Scene' (from Götterdämmerung)
Birgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde)
Sydney Opera House, 1973

Wagner: Mild und leise 'Isolde's Liebestod' (from Tristan und Isolde)
Birgit Nilsson (Isolde)
Stockholm, 1967