Die Walkure: Windgassen-Varnay

Die Walkure: Windgassen-Varnay

• Live performance from the 1960 Bayreuth Festival
• Rudolf Kempe never made a studio recording of any of the Ring Operas
• It is only ove the past few years, with the issue of some of Kempe's live performances that his great stature as a Ring conductor has become clear
• A relatively rare appearance by Wolfgang Windgassen as Siegmund - as the leading Siegfried of his day, he arely took on this additional assignment in Ring Cycles
• Also rare is the appearance of American bass Jerome Hines as Wotan, a part he sang infrequently.

Wolfgang Windgassen (Siegmund) - Gottlob Frick (Hunding) - Jerome Hines (Wotan) - Aase Nordmo Løvberg (Sieglinde) - Astrid Varnay (Brünnhilde) - Hertha Töpper (Fricka) - Ruth Siewert (Schwertleite)... - Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele - R. Kempe, dir.