Since you are interested in The Flagstad Recitals Vol 3: Opera Arias / Wesendonk-Lieder (with Mahler - Kindertotenlieder, etc), here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
GRIEG / SIBELIUS / EGGEN / ALNAES / LIE
The Flagstad Recitals Vol 2: Scandinavian Songs Kirsten Flagstad (soprano) Edwin McArthur (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra / Oivin Fjeldstad [ Decca SBS Eloquence / 2 CD - released 12/Dec/2009 ] "…what a marvellously fresh and original work Haugtussa is and how glorious is Flagstad's tone and characterisation! I do urge readers who do not know this song-cycle to invest in this record." Gramophone |
HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (complete opera recorded in 1952) Kirsten Flagstad / Elisabeth Schwarzkopf / Thomas Hemsley / Arda Mandikian / Mermaid Singers / Mermaid Orchestra / Geraint Jones [ Naxos Historical Great Opera Recordings / CD - released 19/Sep/2007 ] When the recording first appeared in January 1953 The Gramophone commented: "At last we have a really satisfactory recording of Dido". |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Die Walkure [Acts I & III] (recorded in 1957) Kirsten Flagstad, Set Svanholm, Otto Edelmann / Vienna Philharmonic / Sir Georg Solti & Hans Knappertsbusch (Act 1) [ Decca ABC Eloquence / 2 CD - released 12/Dec/2009 ] "It is a monumental reading, sensitive and glorious and sung with admirably steady tone. No one can really mistake this singer for a young or middle-aged woman but no one could believe either that it is a woman of sixty-two with behind her a career... |
SCHUBERT / BRAHMS / SCHUMANN / WOLF / RICHARD STRAUSS
The Flagstad Recitals Vol 1: Lieder Kirsten Flagstad (soprano) Edwin McArthur (piano) [ Decca ABC Eloquence / 2 CD - released 12/Dec/2009 ] "Throughout, one is stirred by the sheer beauty of the sound." Gramophone |
BACH / HANDEL
The Flagstad Recitals Vol 4: Songs for Sunday - Sacred Arias Kirsten Flagstad (soprano) / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Adrian Boult [ Decca SBS Eloquence / 2 CD - released 12/Dec/2009 ] "(The) Handel arias are definitely worth a listen and the contents give further evidence of Kirsten Flagstad's comprehensive repertoire." (MusicWeb Jan 2010) |
TRADITIONAL
Kirsten Flagstad sings Norwegian Hymns Kirsten Flagstad (soprano) Sigvard Fotland (piano) [ Decca SBS Eloquence / 2 CD - released 12/Dec/2009 ] These concerts were the result of radio broadcasts and recordings of Norwegian hymns - or, more accurately (in some cases, anyway), hymns sung in the Norwegian language - that were made over the course of three days in September 1956. |