Since you are interested in Flagstad: Songs and Arias (Rec 1937), here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
GRIEG
Piano Music Vol 1 (Piano Sonata, Four Piano Pieces) Einar Steen-Nokleberg (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] "The playing is full of imagination, character and sensitivity and the recordings... are very natural too. I would recommend them strongly even had they been at full price." (Gramophone) |
EDVARD GRIEG
Grieg: Orchestral Music Vol 5 (complete incidental music to Peer Gynt) Isa Gericke (soprano) Unni Lovlid (soprano) Kirsten Braten Berg (mezzo-soprano) / Malmo Symphony Orchestra / Malmo Chamber Choir / Bjarte Engeset [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] "Excellent soloists (especially the Solveig of soprano Ise Katharina Gericke), an enthusiastic chorus, and extremely atmospheric engineering...At Naxos' very reasonable price, this set becomes self-recommending." (10/10 ClassicsToday) |
HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (complete opera recorded in 1952) Kirsten Flagstad / Elisabeth Schwarzkopf / Thomas Hemsley / Arda Mandikian / Mermaid Singers / Mermaid Orchestra / Geraint Jones [ Naxos Historical Great Opera Recordings / CD - released 19/Sep/2007 ] When the recording first appeared in January 1953 The Gramophone commented: "At last we have a really satisfactory recording of Dido". |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Four (4) Last Songs (with Wagner-Extracts) (Rec 1950) Kirsten Flagstad (sop) / Philharmonia Orchestra/Wilhelm FurtwANngler [ Testament / CD - released 1/May/2007 ] "Flagstad and Furtwängler caught on the wing - this is a real treasure...not least historically as the world premiere performance. Flagstad and (especially) Furtwängler seem to find the very pulse of life here, even as it unravels as death draws... |