VIDEO: Teresa Stratas, Astrid Varnay, Hanna Schwarz, Hans Beirer, Bernd Weikl, Wieslaw Ochman, Karl Boehm, Vienna PO; dir. Goetz Friedrich; 1974. PGD [Polygram] 072209 more riveting than any other known VIDEO--or AUDIO recording, for that matter [G.R.]
AUDIO: A) MELODRAM: Leonie Rysanek, Astrid Varnay, Gerhard Stolze, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Leitner conducting ("live," Monaco, 1971); Stereo
B) MELODRAM: Ljuba Welitsch, Kerstin Thorborg, Frederick Jagel, Herbert Janssen, Reiner conducting ("live," Met, 1949); so-so Mono
C) LEGATO: Maria Cebotari, Elisabeth Höngen, Julius Patzak, Marko Rothmüller, Krauss conducting ("live," Covent Garden, Sept. 30, 1947); so-so Mono
D) DECCA/LONDON: Birgit Nilsson, Grace Hoffman, Gerhard Stolze, Eberhard Waechter, Solti conducting; Stereo
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