Wagner: Die Walkure, Act II (Lehmann, Melchior, 1935-38)

Wagner: Die Walküre - Act II
Lotte Lehmann, soprano (Sieglinde)
Lauritz Melchior, tenor (Siegmund)
Emanuel List, bass (Hunding)
Hans Hotter, baritone (Wotan - scenes 1, 2)
Marta Fuchs, soprano (Brünnhilde - scenes 1, 2, 4)
Margarete Klose, contralto (Fricka)
Ella Flesch, soprano (Brünnhilde - scene 5)
Alfred Jerger, baritone (Wotan - scene 5)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Bruno Walter (scenes 3, 5)
Berlin State Opera Orchestra conducted by Bruno Seidler-Winkler (scenes 1, 2, 4)

Recorded June 22, 1935 in the Musikvereinsaal, Vienna, and in September and November 1938 in Berlin. Issued in 1939 as HMV DB 3719 through DB 3728 in Album Series No. 336. In the USA, issued in 1939 as Victor Musical Masterpiece Set M-582 (records 15506 through 15515); in slide automatic sequence as Set AM-582 (records 15516 through 15525); and, in 1940, in drop automatic sequence as Set DM-582 (records 16058 through 16067). In Nazi Germany, the sides involving only the "Aryan" Berlin forces were issued as Electrola DB 4599 through DB 4604 and DB 4606 and 4607. Below is a tabulation of the sides in chronological order of recording:

Vienna (June 22, 1935):
2VH 110-2 Side 12: Scene 3, part 1 (Lehmann, Melchior)
2VH 111-1 Side 13: Scene 3, part 2 (Lehmann, Melchior)
2VH 112-1 Side 14: Scene 3, part 3 (Lehmann, Melchior)
2VH 113-2A Side 19: Scene 5, part 1 (Lehmann, Melchior)
2VH 114-2 Side 20: Scene 5, part 2 (Lehmann, Melchior, List, Flesch, Jerger)

Berlin (September 19, 1938):
2RA 3256-2 Side 15: Scene 4, part 1 (Melchior, Fuchs)
2RA 3257-3 Side 16: Scene 4, part 2 (Melchior, Fuchs)
2RA 3258-2 Side 17: Scene 4, part 3 (Melchior, Fuchs)
2RA 3259-3 Side 18: Scene 4, part 4 (Melchior, Fuchs)

Berlin (September 20, 1938):
2RA 3260-2 Side 1: Scene 1, part 1 (Hotter, Fuchs)
2RA 3261-2 Side 6: Scene 1, part 6 (Hotter, Fuchs, Klose)
2RA 3262-2 Side 2: Scene 1, part 2 (Hotter, Klose)
2RA 3263-2 Side 3: Scene 1, part 3 (Hotter, Klose)
2RA 3264-2 Side 4: Scene 1, part 4 (Hotter, Klose)
2RA 3265-2 Side 5: Scene 1, part 5 (Hotter, Klose)

Berlin (November ??, 1938):
2RA 3461-1 Side 7: Scene 2, part 1 (Hotter, Fuchs)
2RA 3462-2 Side 8: Scene 2, part 2 (Hotter, Fuchs)
2RA 3463-1 Side 9: Scene 2, part 3 (Hotter, Fuchs)
2RA 3464-2 Side 10: Scene 2, part 4 (Hotter, Fuchs)
2RA 3465-2 Side 11: Scene 2, part 5 (Hotter, Fuchs)

There are five cuts in Scene 2, as follows (page numbers refer to the Schirmer vocal score of 1904 [reprinted by Kalmus], itself based on the Schott vocal score of 1900, with German text and an English translation):

(at 29:58): p. 114, bar 8 to p. 115, bar 3 (9 bars, from "Von dem Ende wollt' ich" to "dass mir Rede nun mir stand")
(at 32:46): p. 118, middle of bar 11 to p. 120, middle of bar 11 (27 bars, from "Der der Liebe fluchte" to "den Verträgen bin ich nun Knecht")
(at 33:32): p. 121, middle of bar 11 to p. 122, bar 4, beat 1 (11 bars, from "Der, entgegen dem Gott" to "der im eig'nen Trotze der trauteste mir?")
(at 34:25): p. 122, bar 11, beat 2 to p. 124, last bar, beat 1 (21 bars, from "Doch der Wälsung, Siegmund?" to "zu tiefster Scham durchschaute sie mich")
(at 36:16): p. 127, bar 17 to p. 129, bar 12, beat 1 (29+ bars, from "Und für das Ende sorgt Alberich" to "der Freien, erlang' ich mir nicht")

The last of these cuts occurs between the end of Side 9 and the beginning of Side 10.