The tremendous bass Ivar Andresen sings Wagner

The magnificent basso, Ivar Andresen, sings Hagen's call to arms from Richard Wagner's Götterdämmerung. It was recorded in 1927. Andresen sadly had a rather short career due to his untimely death. He sang at such opera houses as the Metropolitan Opera, Semperoper Dresden, Covent Garden and the Bayreuth Festival.
I've read that some people regard him as a "bass-baritone", but I think this classification is wrong. I believe he is a true "basso profundo".

Of course, the music itself is tremendous in its own right!

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[Dogaradodia]

Certified Intergalactic! Great voice!

[wotan3000]

London's tone was created by the way he sang. He sang in a very swallowed way whilst trying to sing into his cheekbones (apparently, I wasn't there). Watching London sing it becomes easy to see the manufactured way in which he was singing. He actually dampened his sound in this way - resulting in less resonanace. According to first-hand accoutns, the voice was rather like Domingo's - sounds thick and dark - YES, but its does not have the commensurate size and loudness.

Ivar is naturally a bass.

[OperusSuper]

Großartige Interpretation. Wenn nach ihm Gottlob Frick den Mannenruf nicht noch imposanter gesungen hätte, wäre Andresen der King.

[SchallundWahn]

Wow.!..he blows my mind away, like a heavy storm, sounds like the basso of the sea or the King of all worlds!

I've never heard of him...

Grandiose! Bombastic!

[65attila]

If he is not a "basso profundo" that Fach does not exist, What a florious tone and

sense of drama.

[paulostroff99]

Tremendous singing.TY Primo for posting.

[Robertgrade]

Absolutely marvelous.

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[Scarmilk]

Many different pictures here(Y) Naat!

[Sieglinde84]

Very impessive voice!

[srr10]

Let us not forget the absolutely unbelievable call to arms of Matti Salminen, available here on YouTube. He is fully the equal of Andresen- probably better, but I wouldn't like to compare the modern recording to this old one and draw definitive conclusions.

[TAOC24]

@MusashiTzu THIS USUALLY APPLIES TO THE ITALIAN WAY OF DESCRIBING A LOW BASS VOICE BUT THIS VOICE IS A SCHWARZES BAS AND A GREAT ONE..

[TAOC24]

IVAR IS A WONDERFUL SINGER, AND A REAL STUDY FOR THE REPERTOIRE.

THIS IS THE STANDARD FOR HAGEN. SUNG WITH BEAUTY AND FULLY IN CHARACTER...

FRICK IS WONDERFUL ALSO, BUT A VERY DANGEROUS TYPE OF ABANDON...STUDY THIS AND TELL ME WHAT YOU FIND.