Kerstin Thorborg
Born in Venjan, Sweden, the contralto Kerstin Thorborg was one of the best dramatic Wagnerian singers in the two decades between 1930 and 1950. She made her debut in 1924 singing the difficult role of Ortrud in Lohengrin. Eight years later, the famed conductor Bruno Walter engaged her for the Städtische Oper in Berlin and became her mentor. Although a contralto, Thorborg's upper register ...
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
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 1
Symphony No. 2
Symphony No. 3 'Eroica'
Symphony No. 4
Symphony No. 5
Symphony No. 6 'Pastoral'
Symphony No. 7
Symphony No. 8
Symphony No. 9 'Choral'**
Choral Fantasy*
Coriolan Overture
Creatures of Prometheus
Egmont
Fidelio Overture
Leonore Overture No. 1
Leonore Overture No. 2
Leonore Overture No. 3
Septet for Woodwind, Horn & Strings
String Quartet No. 16
Live broadcast recordings, 1939
*Ania Dorfmann, piano
**Jarmila Novotna, soprano
**Kerstin Thorborg, alto
**Jan Peerce, tenor
**Nicola Moscona, bass
The Westminster Choir
NBC Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Arturo Toscanini
BEETHOVEN Choral Fantasy
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9 'Choral'
Live broadcast recording, 1939
Total duration: 79:46
Ania Dorfmann, piano
Jarmila Novotna, soprano
Kerstin Thorborg, alto
Jan Peerce, tenor
Nicola Moscona, bass
The Westminster Choir
NBC Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Arturo Toscanini
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WAGNER Siegfried
Recorded live in 1937
Total duration: 3hr 25:51
Lauritz Melchior, Siegfried
Friedrich Schorr, Wanderer
Kirsten Flagstad, Brünhilde
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
conducted by Arthur Bodanzky
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 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
