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Under the Radar: Kempe’s Stunning Das Rheingold Excerpts

Jed Distler

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In March 1959 Rudolf Kempe recorded an LP of excerpts […]

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Reference Recording: Das Rheingold (complete): Solti/Vienna (Decca); Karajan/Berlin (DG)

    Soloists: Ferdinand Frantz (baritone); Benno Kusche, Josef Metternich (bass); Johanna Blatter, Rut Siewert (contralto); Lisa Otto, Melitta Muszely (soprano); Sieglinde Wagner (mezzo-soprano); Rudolf Schock, Helmut Melchert (tenor)

    Staatskapelle Berlin, Rudolf Kempe

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