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Melchior and Flagstad in Copenhagen

Melchior and Flagstad in Copenhagen

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Melchior and Flagstad
In the summer of 1936 when Flagstad called at the Copenhagen studios, she had less than 18 months before catapulted to world fame, the dream Brünnhilde-Isolde opera lovers on both sides of the Atlantic had been longing for. Similarly, in September 1939 when Lauritz Melchior recorded his Copenhagen batch he was unrivalled as the world’s leading Heldentenor. Yet nothing could be more in character than 41-year old Flagstad’s and 49-year old Melchior’s desire to descend for a spell from the heights of Valhalla, scale down their mighty voices, and perform the songs of their native lands. It is true of both artists, that in their extended and prolonged concert careers abroad, they never (or only rarely) failed to include one or several songs of their respective country in their programmes. For Melchior, it was particularly the patriotic, often martial strain that held a life-long and sincere attraction, and indeed his compatriots did not always sympathize with his naive, sometimes blustering, enthusiasm. 

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Lauritz Melchior
1. Henrik Rung: Hvor Nilen vander (Where the Nile waters)
2. Peter Erasmus Lange-Müller: I Würzburg ringer de Klokker til Fest (Holiday bells are ringing in Würzburg)
3. Georg Rygaard: Flaget (The Flag)
4. Georg Rygaard: Danmark (Denmark)
5. Emil Hornemann: Kongernes Konge (Thou King of Kings)
6. Hans Ernst Krøyer: Der er et yndigt Land (There is a lovely land)
7. J.P.E. Hartmann: Flyv, Fugl, flyv (Fly, bird fly)
8. Peter Erasmus Lange-Müller: Serenade (Once upon a time: Serenade)
9. Fini Henriques: Forårsvise (Spring song) / Peter Heise: Dengang jeg var kun saa stor som saa (When that I was and a little tiny boy)
10. Peter Heise: Skovensomhed (Alone in the Woods)

Kirsten Flagstad
11. Edvard Grieg: Der gynger en Baad på Bølge (The boat rocks on the waves)
12. Edvard Grieg: Et Haab (Hope)
13. Edvard Grieg: Lys Nat (Summer Night)
14. Edvard Grieg: Jeg elsker dig (I love you)
15. Edvard Grieg: Ich liebe Dich (as above in German)
16. Edvard Grieg: En Svane (A swan) in German
17. Edvard Grieg: Mens jeg venter (While I wait) in German
18. Edvard Grieg: En drøm (A dream) in German
19. Agathe Backer Grøndahl: Mot Kveld (Eventide)
20. Eyvind Alnæs: Lykken mellem to (Happiness between two people)

In the studio ©
In downtown Copenhagen, a stone’s throw from the Royal palace, lies a grimy, melancholic brick building, much in need of renovation. Once the home of the Danish masonic lodge, it has, since the masons moved on to more impressive quarters, housed successively a cinema, an indoor tennis court, The Board of Trade, the Institute of Musical Sciences, and HMV’s recording studios. In the years before World War 2, a number of prominent Red Seal artists visited here to record, among them Kirsten Flagstad and Lauritz Melchior.

RELEASE DATE: MAY 1987

CATALOGUE NUMBER: DACOCD 325

EAN: 5709499325001

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