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A different voice, August 30, 2009
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KIRSTEN FLAGSTAD
A different voice.
Kirsten Flagstad ,the famous Norwegian singer and her magnificent and refined voice can be enjoyed in these beautiful songs from different composers. I was so lucky as to have heard personally her degree of perfection, in her unforgettable interpretations of Isolde and Brunnhilde specially with Wilhelm Furtwangler (Teatro Colon. Buenos Aires) but I did, perhaps as most people, ignored Norwegian songs were part of her dearest selection.
We have a very good one in this CD . It starts with Schubert ( Die Forelle ) sang in her upper register, but in the rest we can listen to her sensitive and limpid voice in her normal deep usual register starting with two Beethoven pieces, one of them the unforgettable "Ich liebe dich". Follow two songs of the same title by Grieg, well known pieces full of tenderness and nostalgia. She sings here the German version and then the one in Norwegian, with depth, delicacy, serenity and that sad color of almost all Grieg music: not a small masterpiece!
Eight other Grieg songs followed by three of Norwegian composers. Finally "Meine liebe ist grun" from Brahms (with words by Schumann), "Alerseeler" by Strauss and "Songs my mother taught me" by Dvorak. Three songs from English composers end the cycle.
This simple CD is a big pleasure for her followers or from those who still do not know her different voice. It is a very delicate and beautiful present for yourself and others you care very much.
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