Lauritz Melchior
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The Record of Singing – The Very Best of Volumes 1-4
RecommendedFrom 1899 to the end of the 78 era: 1899-1952
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Gramophone Awards, 1989, Winner - Historic vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 1979, Winner - Historical
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Gramophone Awards, 1986, Winner - Historic vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Historic Reissue
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Gramophone Awards, 1977, Winner - Historical
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Great Wagner Duets (1939-1940)
Selected arias from Lohengrin, Tristan und Isolde and more
Kirsten Flagstad (soprano), Lauritz Melchior (tenor)
Edwin McArthur
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Lauritz Melchior
Lauritz Melchior (tenor), with Kirsten Flagstad (soprano), with Frida Leider (soprano), Lotte Lehman
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New. The Americans - Golden Age of Singing
Jussi Björling (tenor), Lauritz Melchior, Birgit Nilsson, Nicolai Gedda, Howard Barlow, Wilfrid Pelletier, Walter Hendl
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Wagner: Lohengrin
Lauritz Melchior (Lohengrin), Lotte Lehmann (Elsa), Friedrich Schorr (Telramund), Marjorie Lawrence (Ortrud)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera House, Artur Bodanzky
Lotte Lehmann's Elsa lives the cliche "treats the text with a Lieder singer's care". The audible youth of Marjorie Lawrence's wild, dangerous Ortrud fires up the Telramund of old man Friedrich... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Collection
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Special offer. Wagner: Lohengrin
Lauritz Melchior (Lohengrin), Astrid Varnay (Elsa), Kerstin Thorborg (Ortrud), Alexander Sved (Friedrich von Telramund), Mack Harrell (Der Heerrufer des Königs), Norman Cordon (König Heinrich)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Erich Leinsdorf
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Special offer. Wagner: Die Walküre
Ella Flesch, Marta Fuchs, Hans Hotter, Alfred Jerger, Margarete Klose, Lotte Lehmann, Emanuel List, Lauritz Melchior
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Bruno Walter
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Great Singers & Musicians in Copenhagen 1931-1939
Historical ‘live’ recordings from the archive of Danish broadcasting
Denmarks Radio Symphony Orchestra
The sound quality throughout the set is often rather better than you might expect, given the clandestine nature of the enterprise and the age of the originals...What a wonderful privilege, being... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2010, Re-issue of the Month
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Special offer. Wagner: Die Walküre
Astrid Varnay (Sieglinde), Lauritz Melchior (Siegmund), Emanuel List (Hunding), Helen Traubel (Brunnhilde), Kerstin Thorborg (Fricka)
Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera House, Paul Breisach
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Special offer. Wagner: Die Walküre
Lauritz Melchior (Siegmund), Astrid Varnay (Sieglinde), Helen Traubel (Brünnhilde), Friedrich Schorr (Wotan), Kerstin Thorborg (Fricka)
New York Metropolitan Opera and Chorus, Erich Leinsdorf
an electrifying performance, starrily cast, with radio sound giving clear focus to the voices...[Melchior] is in heroic voice...Varnay is a warm Sieglinde...Traubel sings with a rock-like firmness... —
