Melchior - Schwanengesang

Brigitte Fassbaender: "Setting aside all our speculation about Schwanengesang, Schubert's last songs are the inexhaustible expression of a genius at the height of his powers ...“

Brigitte Fassbaender: "Schubert's last songs are the inexhaustible expression of a genius at the height of his powers ...“

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Danish-American tenor Lauritz Melchior was born in Copenhagen on 20 March 1890 and died in California on 19 March 1973

Recording held in the historical sound archives of the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf

Lauritz Melchior, tenor & orchestra

RCA | Denmark | 1944

Ludwig Rellstab:

Ständchen

03:41

Maynor
Schick

Slovtsov

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