Top 10 basses/baritones

[gurnemanz]

There's a wonderful recording from the doomed city of Dresden in 1944 of Wotan's Farewell from Die Walküre sung by Josef Herrmann. Listening to it one wishes more than anything that we had a complete Wotan from him. Just perfect.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaMDqCkCQgQ

The Dresden Staatskapelle is conducted by Karl Elmendorff on this recording.

Thanks for link. I was prompted to dig out my only Josef Herrmann recording - R. Strauss Heimliche Aufforderung with Michael Raucheisen from 1946. Awful sound with odd background studio noise, but a nice natural-sounding rendition