For older Wagnerians, the era of the great Rings was not the Fifties or the Forties but the Thirties. That, they said, was the real golden era of true Brünnhildes like Frida Leider, of true Siegfrieds like Lauritz Melchoir, and of true Wagner conductors like Thomas Beecham. While some might dispute Beecham's standing as a Wagnerian in an age that included Furtwängler, Toscanini and Walter, the English conductor had known, loved and conducted Wagner's music dramas since his earliest days on the podium, and furthermore, ...
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For older Wagnerians, the era of the great Rings was not the Fifties or the Forties but the Thirties. That, they said, was the real golden era of true Brünnhildes like Frida Leider, of true Siegfrieds like Lauritz Melchoir, and of true Wagner conductors like Thomas Beecham. While some might dispute Beecham's standing as a Wagnerian in an age that included Furtwängler, Toscanini and Walter, the English conductor had known, loved and conducted Wagner's music dramas since his earliest days on the podium, and furthermore, Beecham was at the height of his powers in the Thirties, at his most incisive, his most passionate, his most intense and, above all, his most dramatic. In this recording of Covent Garden's 1936 Ring, Beecham, Leider and Melchoir create a truly great performance of Act II from Götterdämmerung. This is Leider's Brünnhilde at her most passionately human if overwhelmingly furious, Melchoir's Siegfried at his most gloriously heroic if utterly clueless, and Beecham's Wagner at his most...
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