Eileen Farrell & James King sing Die Walküre excerpts - LIVE!
From 1968, here are Eileen Farrell and James King, with Leonard Bernstein conducting excerpts from Act I of Wagner’s “Die Walküre“.
And here is a link to my Eileen Farrell “Wagner“ playlist:
The New York Times wrote: “This is the way Wagner should sound. It was some of the finest singing Farrell has done in years.“
from an interview with Farrell on working with Bernstein:
“... I did Wagner with Lenny in concert so many times, and I just adored working with him. I think he was the greatest conductor in the world for singers: he breathed with you, it’s like he was singing with the orchestra, and our sense of phrasing was exactly the same.
With Lenny, there was very little change from rehearsal to performance. he made everything quite clear, and we did exactly as he told us to do. There was no such thing as, “Now, you watch me and follow,“ as there
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