Thanks for posting a wonderful "ho-jo-to-ho" with Flagstad. Melchior is irrelevant in this context and most of us who appreciate music would rather forget this Danish "light-weight".
@themfromspace I don't like Melchior for two reasons. He was a sloppy musician and could hardly read music. Furtwängler fired him from Bayreuth in 1931 because he could not learn the middle section of the love duet in Tristan and insisted on using the "Metropolitan cut". That's point number one. After the war, he was extremely disloyal to Flagstad when she was falsely accused of having been a Nazi sympathizer. That's point number two.
Thanks for posting a wonderful "ho-jo-to-ho" with Flagstad. Melchior is irrelevant in this context and most of us who appreciate music would rather forget this Danish "light-weight".
VivaRenata 1 year ago
@VivaRenata Melchio a "light-weight"? I thought he had the most powerful tenor voice in recorded history!
Pollione88 1 year ago
@VivaRenata whoa whoa..... wha????
themfromspace 11 months ago
@themfromspace I don't like Melchior for two reasons. He was a sloppy musician and could hardly read music. Furtwängler fired him from Bayreuth in 1931 because he could not learn the middle section of the love duet in Tristan and insisted on using the "Metropolitan cut". That's point number one. After the war, he was extremely disloyal to Flagstad when she was falsely accused of having been a Nazi sympathizer. That's point number two.
VivaRenata 11 months ago
How wonderful! My listening material for the next day or so!!! Great post Paul. Kind and warm regards,
TheWisemonkey8 2 years ago