HMV, 1937-38 · Great 78 ProjectA Danish tenor with a trumpet of a top register, the Tamino of the 1937 Berlin recording. Berlin and Vienna competed over him for two decades; side 6, Dies Bildnis, shows what the fuss was about.
Born in Copenhagen, he made his whole career in the German-speaking world and kept his ringing top notes into his sixties, giving concerts long after most tenors go quiet. Old-timers called him the Danish trumpet; side 6 of our set explains the nickname in ninety seconds.