Fabuleux, incomparable! Voix à l'héroïsme inégalé, flamboyante comme un glaive, dont l'élocution est d'une puissance solaire et d'une solidité terrienne, Max Lorenz est bien l'enfant terrestre d'un dieu, avec en lui, au même degré, la grandeur céleste, immense comme l'azur, et l'humaine fragilité, ses ombres et ses emportements . La fin de l'acte à partir de "Siegmund heiss ich" frôle le délire: le héros byronien en extase, célèbre une fatalité qui le comble et le condamne! La direction d'Elmendorff est juste, toujours solide et toujours lyrique, d'une efficacité indiscutable, permet de placer cet acte I de "Die Walküre" en regard de celui, ô combien célébré! de Bruno Walter avec Lehmann, Melchior et List, enregistrée presque dix ans plus-tôt. Merci de le faire connaître.
Excellent performance - and with wonderful sound quality for 1944. Never heard of this soprano before but she is very impressive, excellent characterization, diction etc.
Che differenza enorme nella tecnica e nello stile da allora. Soprattutto la protagonista femminile in certi passaggi sembra quasi una cantante di operetta. In ogni caso molto bello, almeno fin dove ho ascoltato. Mi impressiona pensare che questa esecuzione abbia avuto luogo in una Germania sotto le bombe, in una Dresda che sarebbe stata distrutta pochi mesi dopo. Evidentemente, anche in un tempo terribile come quello, si riteneva che la Musica potesse avere un ruolo, non solo di propaganda.
Wonderful performance. I suspect it was a radio broadcast without audience. (Best to assume this than to envision an audience of National Socialists). And only 5 months before the destruction of that beautiful city. To make music under conditions of total war! Amazing they managed to pull through. In any case, Elmendorff does wonders with the music score and his orchestra. Lorenz is the ideal Siegmund and is white hot. Böhme is also outstanding. Today's Georg Zeppenfeld is uncannily reminiscent of him. Teschemacher also impresses.
+Georg Fuss Act I from "Die Walküre" by Richard Wagner Siegmund Max Lorenz Sieglinde Margarete Teschemacher Hunding Kurt Böhme Sächsische Staatskapelle Karl Elmendorff, conductor Dresden, 21.IX.1944
this is gods music.........wagner was not an atheist........no great music has ever been composed by an atheist........facts and love.from vienna austria.........where it all began,.,.,.haydn,.mozart,.beethoven,.schubert,.,.etc.........
