Though he never recorded the opera complete in the studio, there are four extant recordings of Wilhelm Furtwängler leading either all or portions of Act III from Wagner's Götterdämmerung in live performance. Each is in its way worth hearing for any fan of the conductor or the composer. There are two from complete recordings of the entire opera: an April 1950 performance featuring Max Lorenz, Kirsten Flagstad, and Ludwig Weber, with La Scala Orchestra; and a November 1953 performance featuring Ludwig Suthaus, Martha Mödl, ...
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Though he never recorded the opera complete in the studio, there are four extant recordings of Wilhelm Furtwängler leading either all or portions of Act III from Wagner's Götterdämmerung in live performance. Each is in its way worth hearing for any fan of the conductor or the composer. There are two from complete recordings of the entire opera: an April 1950 performance featuring Max Lorenz, Kirsten Flagstad, and Ludwig Weber, with La Scala Orchestra; and a November 1953 performance featuring Ludwig Suthaus, Martha Mödl, and Josef Greindl, with the Rome Radio Orchestra. In addition, there is a recording of excerpts from the June 1937 London performance of the entire opera featuring Lauritz Melchior, Flagstad, and Weber, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and, last but certainly not least, there is this recording from May 5, 1952, featuring Suthaus, Flagstad, and Greindl, also with the Rome Radio Orchestra. (In the interest of completeness, it should be noted that there are also studio recordings...
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