Video: Jussi Björling sings Prayer of Thanksgiving

Video: Jussi Björling sings Prayer of Thanksgiving

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norman lebrecht

November 28, 2013

The great Swedish tenor, never knowingly outsung. Watch the video here.

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Comments

  • Leslie says:

    I’ll never forget his Calif to Birgitte Nilsson’s Turandot and Renata Tebaldi’s Liu. At least I remember all three, together, or maybe apart. I was very young.

  • Marshall says:

    Memories do play tricks. He never sang the role on stage but, of course, there was the famous recording with the two of them. The live pairing we all remember was, in this role, the incomparable Corelli, and Nilsson

  • Prewartreasure says:

    His like will never come again, any more than will another Wagner.

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