MARGARET HARSHAW: At her best, live in Boston
Margaret Harshaw was one of the great American Wagnerian singers, and this live broadcast concert recording captures her at her very best.
Drawn from an excellent-quality tape of the FM broadcast, and fully XR-remastered by Pristine, one is immediately transported back some 55 years to Symphony Hall, Boston, to hear excerpts from Tannhäuser, Die Fliegender Holländer and Götterdammerüng.
Harshaw was particularly celebrated for her Wagner, which she sang at the Metropolitan Opera in New York for some 22 seasons between 1942 and 1964. This excellent solo performance with Munch and the Boston Symphony underlines quite why she was so highly rated. |