A live performance of Wagner's opera recorded at the Savonlinna Opera Festival in 1989. Lief Segerstam conducts the Savonlinna Festival Orchestra while Hildegard Behrens portrays Senta with accompanying performances by Franz Grundheber and Matti Salminen.
When this recording of Der fliegende Hollander first appeared in 1968, Gramophone magazine declared it "as perfect as we have any right to demand". Otto Klemperer conceives the score on an epic scale, and Theo Adam, reaching deep into the heart of the world-weary [...]