Lauritz Melchior
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The Record of Singing – The Very Best of Volumes 1-4
RecommendedFrom 1899 to the end of the 78 era: 1899-1952
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Gramophone Awards, 1989, Winner - Historic vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 1979, Winner - Historical
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Gramophone Awards, 1986, Winner - Historic vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Historic Reissue
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Gramophone Awards, 1977, Winner - Historical
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Kirsten Flagstad, soprano / Lauritz Melchior, tenor
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden, Fritz Reiner
This is an improved remastering by Ward Marston of a VAI set which received a warm welcome for preserving the rewarding partnership of Flagstad and Melchior, some would say unsurpassed in their... — More…
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Special offer. Great Singers & Musicians in Copenhagen 1931-1939
Historical ‘live’ recordings from the archive of Danish broadcasting
Denmarks Radio Symphony Orchestra
The sound quality throughout the set is often rather better than you might expect, given the clandestine nature of the enterprise and the age of the originals...What a wonderful privilege, being... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2010, Re-issue of the Month
6 CDs
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Coming soon. The Scandinavians - Golden Age of Singing
Jussi Björling (tenor), Lauritz Melchior, Birgit Nilsson, Nicolai Gedda, Howard Barlow, Wilfrid Pelletier, Harry John Brown
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Wagner: Lohengrin
Lauritz Melchior (Lohengrin), Lotte Lehmann (Elsa), Friedrich Schorr (Telramund), Marjorie Lawrence (Ortrud)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera House, Artur Bodanzky
Lotte Lehmann's Elsa lives the cliche "treats the text with a Lieder singer's care". The audible youth of Marjorie Lawrence's wild, dangerous Ortrud fires up the Telramund of old man Friedrich... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Collection
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New. Thomas Jensen Legacy, Vol. 23
Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Jensen, Lauritz Melchior, Dorothy Larsen and Mogens Wedel featuring Georg Vásárhelyi, Lauritz Melchior (soloist, tenor), Dorothy Larsen (soloist), Mogens Wedel (soloist), Georg Vásárhelyi (soloist)
Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Jensen
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Wagner: Die Walkure: Act 2
Kirsten Flagstad (Brünnhilde), Friedrich Schorr (Wotan), Lotte Lehmann (Sieglinde), Kathryn Meisle (Fricka), Lauritz Melchior (Siegmund), Emmanuel List (Hunding)
Orchestra of the San Francisco Opera, Fritz Reiner
this 1936 live broadcast is still thrilling, with Reiner’s eloquent conducting and a cast to dream of: Friedrich Schorr’s dark, incisive Wotan, Lauritz Melchior’s Siegmund and Lotte Lehmann’s... — More…
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Wagner: Siegfried (excerpts)
Lauritz Melchior, Heinrich Tessmer, Albert Reiss, Friedrich Schorr, Emil Schipper, Rudolf Bockelmann, Eduard Habich, Nora Gruhn, Maria Olszewska, Florence Easton
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Skandinavian Songs
Lauritz Melchior (tenor), Ignace Strasvogel (piano), Studio pianist (piano)
Studio orchestra, Jubilee Student Chorus, Studio chorus, MGM Studio Orchestra, Studio children's choir, Scandinavian Quartet, Johan Hye-Knudsen, Georgie Stoll
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