Joel Berglund as Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger

[paulostroff99]

Lovely singing.TY for sharing.

[nabtogo]

my last name is berglund O_O

[carusogugge]

Unfortunately there are no recordings of Berglund and Bjorling singing together. They had different reportoire.

[rhomp2002]

Are there any recordings of Joel Berglund and Jussi Bjorling singing together. They would meld beautifully. Berglund is fantastic.

[seancoxen]

What happened to days like these when we had Hans Hotter, Paul Schoffler, George London, Hermann Uhde, Ferdinand Frantz, Otto Edelmann and Joel Berglund to choose from for the great Wagnerian bass-baritone roles? The previous generation was perhaps even richer. It's an era sorely missed.

[grig035]

seancoxen: "What happened" etc.? With this rep, I've a sense it's not lack of voices; it's hangups re style: a notion today that a heldenbariton must EXPLODE every syllable, even unaccented syllABles. Otherwise -- not macho enough. "Must impress with my sheer POW - ER. Who needs long breath?" A number of today's singers make a good career with just as much voice as the old-timers. BUT THEY HOLLER EVERY NOTE instead of phrasing. To hell with musical line. It's musical vandalism.

[jhb134]

Berglund is very fine .. easily-comparable to Friedrich Schorr. If there's one, thing "missing" .. it would be the inimitable timbre/delivery of Schorr, himself. .. Berglund, though, is .. no doubt .. better than almost any other interpreter of "Hans Sach", save Schorr. Thanks for the excerpt!

[fatbaldcunt]

Isn't the internet a wonderful, wonderful thing - enabling us to share such joy and magic. Thank you Carusogugge for sharing this. I"m a fanatic Wagnerian, amongst many other things, but I'm of my time and only know contempraory singers. So this was a revelation. And I agree with Walkure8 whoever he or she is, this monolgue does touch on the divine and transcends ordinary human quotidian experience.

[walkure8]

Thank you for this wonderful clip. I love Die Meistersinger and the "Wahn" part is to me sacred.

[walkure8]

Thank you for this wonderful clip. I love Die Meistersinger and the "Wahn" part is to me sacred.

[CaliforniaBob]

Like singwood, I too was ignorant of this great voice. Thanks for posting. His voice has tremendous depth.

[lapao]

Berglund is a great wagnerian but to transmit the profound humanity of Hans Sachs,

Friedrich Schorr remains unsurpassed

I heard him personally at the old Met around 1940.

Is there a recoring on YouTube?

[grig035]

Yes, lapao. There's a YouTube Schorr "Wahn" at /watch?v=BzXa8ztENro , put up by vstasov. It sounds like one made ca. ten years before you saw him, a studio recording made ca. 1930. I once had two Met b'casts, 1936 and '39, both using rather cut performing editions. '39 featured him, Jessner and Kullman under Leinsdorf. Because of space, I later had to make a choice between them, and I gifted the '39, because '36 had Schorr slightly fresher and with Rethberg, Maison and Bodanzky conducting!

[singwood]

This is great singing, as are the other Berglund recordings shared here. I was completely ignorant of this wonderful artist. Thanks for broadening this New Yorker's operatic experience.