MUSIClassical ALLEGRO
Topic: NEW CDs
The new Strauss recording, entering the chart at no. 20, is of the world premiere performance of the Four Last Songs, recorded live in concert at London's Royal Albert Hall in 1950. Kirsten Flagstad is the soprano soloist, with Wilhelm Furtwängler conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra. The disc also includes orchestral excerpts from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde and Götterdämmerung, along with Brünnhilde's Immolation from the latter opera. ...CONSUMER INFO
