Wagner Gotterdammerung: Immolation Scene (Varnay, Windgassen, Bayreuth Festival-Keilberth)

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Super stereo. Originally recorded in 1955 by Decca, released under Testament in 2006. This video includes english translation of libretto by Frederick Jameson.

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[woahmcgee]

what kind of weak applause is that after one of the arguably best performances of the immolation scene?

[symyu]

@woahmcgee maybe because they cut the applause in the recording too soon? i could hear a roaring crowd at the very end of the fade out... too bad they always do that to live recordings :(

[owenboi66]

Thanks for posting this. I was thinking of buying the CD and there were no clips to hear on Amazon. It is quite magnificent. Amazing how you completely forget about age or the quality of the sound when the performance is this good.  Thanks once again.

[symyu]

@owenboi66if you can find the link to the cd in the video description above

[lilleeWAfot]

Wonderful Varnay!Wish I could transport myself back 54 years for this!

[symyu]

...i wish the same :P

[sorobji]

That is, without a doubt, the most moving, the clearest, yet drammatic performance of the immolation scene I've heard in a long time. Nilsson may have had those steely penetrating high notes, but that lucious middle voice of Varnay is absolutely insuperable. And Keilberth!!! To have been there...

[VoiceClassical]

@sorobji For me the model Wagnerian soprano..

[MingnonDunn]

Thanks to postings like this, Astrid Varnay has risen to my top 5 of all time sopranos. Thanks for the revelation.

[pt45g46]

Didn't the Berlin Philharmonic play excerpts from The Gotterdammerung during its last concert before the Red Army completed its encirclement of Berlin??? How appropriate.

[jimuk63]

@woahmcgee I think another explanation might be that initially the audience was just stunned at what they had heard and we must remember too that audiences were much more restrained 60 years ago. My memories of that time amount to little more than hearing polite but sometimes enthusistic clapping.

[lewars1912]

Would have loved to have been there.

[TripeHoundRedux]

@symyu That and the placement of the mics; great for catching the performance, probably short changed the audience reaction a bit. Making allowances for that though, that sounds like a standing ovation to me.

[egymagyar1111111]

what I can it is Nature Astrid deliver nobody could ever

[jamiemilan1]

Thanks very much for this! Simply great.

Impressive performance and recording - the soloists were great, the orchestra very vivid and of the right tempo, and the recording very clear - especially considering it's a 1950's recording!

[fastborzoi]

listened again, spectacular

[fastborzoi]

thank you for posting, I will find this fabulous rendition