Sami Klein wrote: >Walter, do you or anyone else have any preference for one or the other? I'm not familiar w/ either. I have the Furtwaengler/Flagstad EMI (my only "modern" recording), and assorted Flagstad/Melchior recordings by Reiner and Beecham (one of which may have been an inadvertent integration of parts from both), and Flagstad/Melchior recordings from Met performances conducted by Bodanzky (1937), and Leinsdorf (1940 and 1941). Walter Meyer