Kirsten Flagstad - Talking About Music with John Amis and John Culshaw

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  • Опубликовано: 21 ноя 2024

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  • @ladyrotha5420
    @ladyrotha5420 4 года назад +9

    What a delight! Back to an era of excellence, high culture and Light. 🕯

  • @mashtali1
    @mashtali1 4 года назад +11

    as a non-English speaker, her English is incredible.

  • @kenwallach5718
    @kenwallach5718 4 года назад +7

    Somehow I alway think of the fjords and mountains of Norway when I hear her singing. She had almost an echo in her voice that was unique.

  • @peterwilson5336
    @peterwilson5336 4 года назад +8

    Wonderful wonderful wonderful, thank you for sharing this !

  • @noshirm6285
    @noshirm6285 3 года назад +5

    Gorgeous, gorgeous voice. What a singer!

  • @mckavitt13
    @mckavitt13 5 лет назад +18

    Tears at the end. Can we ever pay enough tribute, homage to this marvellous singer & human being?

    • @lochness11
      @lochness11 2 года назад +1

      mckavitt13. A lovely comment

    • @VivaRenata
      @VivaRenata 2 года назад +2

      No! There was Flagstad and then there was (and is) everyone else!

    • @mckavitt13
      @mckavitt13 2 года назад +1

      @@lochness11 Thank you, my friend.

  • @Tenortalker
    @Tenortalker 4 года назад +13

    She was treated with such cruelty after WW2. One of the greatest artistes ever - she deserved much better, but her memory has far outlasted those who accused her. Kirsten Flagstad triumphed over her foes.

  • @Zva26
    @Zva26 7 лет назад +32

    Flagstad's voice was a vocal wonder of the world. How fortunate that so many of her recordings have been digitally remastered and given a "new sonic life". Her only real successor was Birgit Nilsson. Together, the two of them constitute the greatest Wagnerian singing of the Twentieth Century.

    • @wilsonwatt9283
      @wilsonwatt9283 4 года назад +1

      @Nicholas Ennos What a completely rude and stupid comment by someone who apparently knows and cares nothing about opera

    • @direfranchement
      @direfranchement 2 года назад +3

      Nilsson was not her successor. Flagstad had no successor.

    • @meltzerboy
      @meltzerboy Год назад +1

      @@direfranchement Some would say Nilsson had no predecessor.

    • @direfranchement
      @direfranchement Год назад

      @@meltzerboy That’s something very different. Impossible to know whether she had a predecessor. Easy to ascertain that she was not Flagstad’s successor.

    • @captainamerica-qw1gl
      @captainamerica-qw1gl Год назад +1

      Successor, yes, but not quite her equal in roles they shared.

  • @Rosannasfriend
    @Rosannasfriend 5 лет назад +8

    That was amazing to listen to. The ending definitely made me sad.

    • @mckavitt13
      @mckavitt13 5 лет назад +2

      Rosannasfriend Almost all endings, even happy ones, make one sad... by their nature, definition perhaps.

  • @g_vezz
    @g_vezz 8 лет назад +14

    The greatest of all...

  • @stevebartley8902
    @stevebartley8902 2 года назад +3

    Oh the Sibelius. Glorious.

  • @darklord220
    @darklord220 8 лет назад +9

    A basket of thanks for posting this

  • @allenjones3130
    @allenjones3130 2 года назад +3

    The late John Culshaw was one of the most gifted recording producers of all time.

    • @Bravilor
      @Bravilor 4 месяца назад

      And might have contributed to Jussi Björling's death.

  • @karlakor
    @karlakor 9 лет назад +14

    There does exist another English-language interview with Flagstad. At the Eastman School of Music is a recording, on several vinyl discs, of a radio broadcast of Die Valkure, which includes an intermission interview with Flagstad. Actually, she does all of the talking, and it is in English,. This recording of the opera now exists on RUclips, but it does not include the interview.

    • @randysills4418
      @randysills4418 7 лет назад +4

      karlakor There is also a radio broadcast in 1937 where she sang "Silent Night." Before the carol, she speaks to her American friends. I think that it is still available.

    • @mckavitt13
      @mckavitt13 5 лет назад +2

      karlakor A shame.

  • @lochness11
    @lochness11 2 года назад +1

    An absolutely fascinating programme about the great Flagstad, including her recorded advice to aspiring Wagnerian singers. A big thankyou for this important historical upload. This broadcast is going straight into My Favourites.

  • @incipaige7201
    @incipaige7201 Год назад

    Unbelievable voice unbelievable singer. This sound is only possible by the human instrument trained perfectly! Love it!

  • @randysills4418
    @randysills4418 8 лет назад +10

    Years ago, I found a recording in New York which had a live performance of The Wesendonk Leider from a live performance given in Norway in 1951. It had some additional speaking by Flagstad than what is here, I think. The Wesendonk Leider was a disappointment. Obviously, whoever was in charge of the taperecorder didn't have any idea how to set the microphones to a suitable level for that huge voice. The BBC did a tribute to Flagstad December 7, 1972, ten years after her passing. In that program, there are additional portions where Flagstad speaks in English. She started with a very small voice of good quality, sang very correctly and the voice grew and GREW!!! There will never be such a great Wagnerian Soprano again. She did ONLY exercises with her first teacher for two years, did repertoire concurrently by herself, and young voice students don't study that way anymore. They try bigger songs and arias too soon!

  • @thomasmiles340
    @thomasmiles340 Год назад

    Thank you for this wonderful program. Strange that Culshaw doesn't mention that her first complete opera recording for Decca was Gluck's Alceste. Cheers.

  • @mckavitt13
    @mckavitt13 5 лет назад +6

    Flagstad disliked her family name being pronounced à la Germanic, that is as “Flagstadt”, as we hear it here in the first sentence of this otherwise commendable, nay precious, documentary. Many thanks. 👏👏👏

  • @MrSkylark1
    @MrSkylark1 3 года назад +10

    FLAGSTAD was the GREATEST WAGNERIAN SOPRANO

  • @randysills4418
    @randysills4418 7 лет назад +6

    John Culshaw is a little off on a few dates, according to his book "Ring Resounding." He actually met Flagstad in March of 1956, when she recorded some songs of Schubert and Schumann. Negotiations with Decca/London Records started in late 1955. Her last commercial recording was in London the first week of 1959. It was the "Songs From Norway" album.

    • @randysills4418
      @randysills4418 2 года назад

      She had actually retired on December 12, 1953 which was forty years to the day of her debut.

  • @Felipe.Taboada.
    @Felipe.Taboada. 5 лет назад +5

    22:08 siegmund sieh auf mich

  • @RWBHere
    @RWBHere 3 года назад +2

    There is a longer version of this recording of Flagstad speaking, at: /watch?v=3PjMukkeG9s

  • @FCOLAXCDG
    @FCOLAXCDG Год назад

    ❤️🇱🇨

  • @paylmoffat3409
    @paylmoffat3409 2 года назад +1

    I can’t fund any of her Greig recordings

    • @randysills4418
      @randysills4418 2 года назад +1

      There are quite a few on RUclips

    • @Felipe.Taboada.
      @Felipe.Taboada. 2 года назад

      search on youtube this video title ''''''Kirsten Flagstad: Haugtussa Op . 67 by Grieg'''''''

    • @Bravilor
      @Bravilor 4 месяца назад

      They have since long been completed. No need for further funding.

  • @paylmoffat3409
    @paylmoffat3409 2 года назад

    Would it be fair to say Flagstad was to Wagner as Callas and Tebaldi were to Belcanto

  • @ransomcoates546
    @ransomcoates546 2 года назад +3

    She hated people pronouncing her surname as if it were German.

  • @AntW11
    @AntW11 2 года назад

    This is very poignant

  • @voraciousreader3341
    @voraciousreader3341 5 месяцев назад

    Wagnerian operas and singers leave me completely cold, and this hasn’t helped. In the supposedly wonderful Furtwängler recording, I think she sounds horrible, and her highest notes last a millisecond, just awful.

    • @elsalohengrin7777
      @elsalohengrin7777 2 месяца назад

      You have know any knowledge at all!! And what you than anyway here and comment