Erich Leinsdorf
Erich Leinsdorf (born Erich Landauer; February 4, 1912 – September 11, 1993) was an Austrian-born American conductor. He performed and recorded with leading orchestras and opera companies throughout the United States and Europe, earning a reputation for exacting standards as well as an acerbic personality. He also published books and essays on musical matters.
Leinsdorf made numerous recordings throughout his career, including some 78-rpm discs for Columbia Records with the Cleveland Orchestra. He made a number of recordings with the Los Angeles Philharmonic for Capitol and later for Sheffield Labs. In the 1950s, he was conductor for a series of complete stereophonic opera recordings made in Rome, beginning with Puccini's Tosca with Zinka Milanov, Jussi Björling, and Leonard Warren for RCA Victor. He continued to record for RCA Victor as music director of the Boston Symphony. Later he again made additional operatic recordings, including the first complete stereo recording of Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Die tote Stadt, with Carol Neblett and René Kollo. Leinsdorf conducted the BSO with pianist Arthur Rubinstein in pianist's second complete recording of Beethoven's piano concertos, Brahms' First Piano Concerto, and Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto.
Erich Leinsdorf
Erich Leinsdorf (born Erich Landauer; February 4, 1912 – September 11, 1993) was an Austrian-born American conductor. He performed and recorded with leading orchestras and opera companies throughout the United States and Europe, earning a reputation for exacting standards as well as an acerbic personality. He also published books and essays on musical matters.
Leinsdorf made numerous recordings throughout his career, including some 7...
WAGNER Der Ring Des Nibelungen: 3. Siegfried
Live broadcast performance, 1962
Total duration: 3hr 49:17 (includes radio announcements)
Siegfried - Hans Hopf
Brünnhilde - Birgit Nilsson
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus
conducted by Erich Leinsdorf
WAGNER Der Ring Des Nibelungen: 4. Götterdämmerung
Live broadcast performance, 1962
Total duration: 4hr 05:15 (includes radio announcements)
Siegfried - Hans Hopf
Brünnhilde - Birgit Nilsson
Gunther - Norman Mittelmann
Gutrune - Gladys Kuchta
Hagen - Gottlob Frick
Waltraute - Irene Dalis
Alberich - Ralph Herbert
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus
conducted by Erich Leinsdorf
WAGNER Die Walküre
Live broadcast stage performance, February 1940
Total duration: 3hr 28:56
Sieglinde - Marjorie Lawrence
Hunding - Emanuel List
Brünhilde - Kirsten Flagstad
Wotan - Julius Huehn
Conductor Erich Leinsdorf
WAGNER Lohengrin
Live broadcast performance, 1940
Total duration: 3hr 8:22
Lohengrin - Lauritz Melchior
Elsa - Elisabeth Rethberg
Ortrud - Kerstin Thorborg
Telramund - Julius Huehn
King Heinrich - Emanuel List
Herald - Leonard Warren
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus
conducted by Erich Leinsdorf
Live concert recording, 1941
Total duration: 2hr 57:32
Kirsten Flagstad - Elisabeth
Emanuel List - Landgraf Hermann
Herbert Janssen - Wolfram
Kerstin Thorborg - Venus
Erich Leinsdorf, conductor
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus
WAGNER Tristan und Isolde
Tristan - Lauritz Melchior
Isolde - Kirsten Flagstad
Brangaene - Kerstin Thorborg
Marke - Alexander Kipnis
Kurwenal - Julius Huehn
Live broadcast performance, 1941
Total duration: 3hr 25:56
Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera
conducted by Erich Leinsdorf