Set Svanholm
Set Svanholm was a Swedish tenor, one of the major Wagner singers of the mid-twentieth century. He was especially admired for heroic roles requiring both stamina and musical intelligence.
In the Pristine catalogue he appears extensively in Wagner, including Furtwängler’s La Scala and Rome Ring recordings, Stiedry’s Parsifal and related historic performances.
Svanholm’s singing combined heroic metal, Nordic brightness an...
Recorded in 1950
Total duration: 3hr 45:1
conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler
R. STRAUSS Salome
R. STRAUSS Elektra
Live recordings, 1952
Total duration: 3hr 12:58
Ljuba Welitsch – Salome
Hans Hotter – Jochanaan
Set Svanholm – Herodes
Astrid Varnay – Elektra
Elisabeth Höngen – Clytemnestra
Paul Schöffler – Orest
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
conducted by Fritz Reiner
WAGNER Parsifal
Live broadcast performance, 1954
Total duration: 4hr 24:04
Parsifal - Set Svanholm
Kundry - Astrid Varnay
Amfortas - George London
Gurnemanz - Hans Hotter
Orchestra and Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera
Conducted by Fritz Stiedry
MAHLER Das Lied von der Erde
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Live concert recording, 1953
Total duration: 74:18
Set Svanholm, tenor
Elena Nikolaidi, contralto
Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York
conducted by Bruno Walter
Live at Carnegie Hall, New York, 18th January 1948
Total duration: 58:20
Set Svanholm - tenor
Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York
Bruno Walter, conductor
