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Wagner - The Great Operas from the Bayreuth Festival

Wagner - The Great Operas from the Bayreuth Festival

Containing the classic Nilsson/Windgassen/ Böhm complete Ring Cycle and legendary Tristan und Isolde, Sawallisch's famous Tannhäuser, Lohengrin and Der Fliegende Hollander + the Levine Parsifal and Varviso Meistersinger..


Wagner:

Das Rheingold

Theo Adam, Annelies Burmeister, Wolfgang Windgassen, Erwin Wohlfahrt, Gustav Neidlinger, Anja Silja, Hermin Esser, Gerd Nienstedt, Vera Soukupová, Martti Talvela, Kurt Böhme, Dorothea Siebert, Helga Dernesch, Ruth Hesse

Karl Böhm

Die Walküre

James King, Leonie Rysanek, Birgit Nilsson, Theo Adam, Annelies Burmeister, Gerd Nienstedt, Daniza Mastilovic, Liane Synek, Helga Dernesch, Gertraud Hopf, Sona Cervená, Annelies Burmeister, Elisabeth Schärtel, Sieglinde Wagner

Karl Böhm

Siegfried

Wolfgang Windgassen, Theo Adam, Birgit Nilsson, Erwin Wohlfahrt, Gustav Neidlinger, Vera Soukupová, Martti Talvela, Erika Köth

Karl Böhm

Tannhäuser

Wolfgang Windgassen, Eberhard Wächter, Gerhard Stolze, Franz Crass, Georg Paskuda, Gerd Nienstedt, Anja Silja, Grace Bumbry, Else-Margrete Gardelli

Wolfgang Sawallisch

Götterdämmerung

Birgit Nilsson, Wolfgang Windgassen, Josef Greindl, Gustav Neidlinger, Thomas Stewart, Ludmila Dvoráková, Martha Mödl, Dorothea Siebert, Helga Dernesch, Sieglinde Wagner, Marga Höffgen, Annelies Burmeister, Anja Silja

Karl Böhm

Der fliegende Holländer

Franz Crass, Anja Silja, Fritz Uhl, Josef Greindl

Wolfgang Sawallisch

Tristan und Isolde

Wolfgang Windgassen, Birgit Nilsson, Christa Ludwig, Martti Talvela, Eberhard Waechter, Claude Heater, Erwin Wohlfahrt, Gerd Nienstedt, Peter Schreier

Karl Böhm

Lohengrin

Jess Thomas, Anja Silja, Astrid Varnay, Ramon Vinay, Franz Crass, Tom Krause

Wolfgang Sawallisch

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Karl Ridderbusch, Jean Cox, Hannelore Bode, Hans Sotin, Klaus Hirte, Frieder Stricker, Anna Reynolds, Gerd Nienstedt, Heribert Steinbach

Silvio Varviso

Parsifal

Peter Hofmann, Waltraud Meier, Hans Sotin, Simon Estes, Franz Mazura, Matti Salminen

James Levine


Chor und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele

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Decca - 4780279

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Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Directed for Stage by Wolfgang Wagner. Recorded live at the Festspielhaus, Bayreuth, 21–30


Robert Holl, Peter Seiffert, Emily Magee & Andreas Schmidt

Chor & Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Daniel Barenboim

Staged and directed by Richard Wagner’s grandson Wolfgang Wagner at the Bayreuther Festspiele in 1999, this production of Wagner’s only comic opera features an all-star cast and the Bayreuther Festspiele chorus and orchestra under the direction of Daniel Barenboim

Wolfgang Wagner’s timeless staging of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg is “exhilaratingly conducted” (Gramophone) by Daniel Barenboim. Alongside him is Robert Holl as a Sachs of “innate wisdom” and Peter Seiffert’s “glorious Walther” (Classics Today)

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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde


Birgit Nilsson (Isolde);Wolfgang Windgassen (Tristan); Grace Hoffman (Brangäne); Hans Hotter (Kurwenal); Arnold van Mill (King Mark) & Fritz Uhl (Melot)

Bayreuth Festival, Wolfgang Sawallisch

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Walhall - WLCD0213

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Daniel Barenboim Birthday Edition - The Conductor

Daniel Barenboim Birthday Edition - The Conductor


Beethoven:

Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67

Mahler:

Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor

Mozart:

Sinfonia concertante in E flat for Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon & Orchestra, K297b

Schumann:

Symphony No. 1 in B flat major, Op. 38 'Spring'

Symphony No. 2 in C major, Op. 61

Scriabin:

Le Poème de l'extase, Op. 54

Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 43 'The Divine Poem'

Wagner:

Siegfried - Act I


Staatskapelle Berlin, Orchestre de Paris, Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra & West-East Divan Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim

Extensive liner notes and biopic by Michael Church

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Wagner: Götterdämmerung

Wagner: Götterdämmerung


Wolfgang Schmidt, Deborah Polaski, Eric Halfvarson, Falk Struckmann, Anne Schwanewilms, Eckehard Wlaschiha & Hanna Schwarz

Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, James Levine

Staged by Alfred Kirchner

“An abstract, simple set, against which the characters play out their fates…starkly and strikingly executed” (The New York Times)

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Wagner: Die Walküre - Act 3

Wagner: Die Walküre - Act 3


Astrid Varnay, Leonie Rysanek & Sigurd Björling

Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele 1951, Herbert von Karajan

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Wagner: Götterdämmerung

Wagner: Götterdämmerung


Jutta Vulpius, Elisabeth Schärtel, Maria Graf, Gustav Neidlinger, Astrid Varnay, Maria von Ilosvay, Wolfgang Windgassen, Georgine von Milinkovic, Mina Bolotine, Hermann Uhde, Josef Greindl, Gré Brouwenstijn

Bayreuth Festival Chorus & Orchestra, Joseph Keilberth

Recorded live at the 1955 Bayreuth Festival

OK, so I know that January’s CD of the Month was also an opera and I do try to vary these things, but what is one to do when faced with a set that reduces you to helpless, awestruck admiration (and, I admit it, tears) by its close? This is a worthy conclusion to a magnificent cycle. As before, most of the cast, familiar from other recordings, surpass themselves here. Windgassen may be more vocally secure for Solti but nowhere else is he so tender, so moving as here. Josef Greindl is a far more saturnine, charismatic Hagen here than elsewhere. But it is Astrid Varnay who is the great revelation. - Gramophone Magazine

GGramophone Awards 2007

Best of Category - Historic Archive

GGramophone Magazine

Disc of the Month - February 2007

Penguin Guide

Rosette Winner

BBC Music Magazine

Opera Choice - March 2007

Testament - SBT41393

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Wagner: Parsifal

Wagner: Parsifal


George London, Martti Talvela, Hans Hotter, Jess Thomas, Gustav Neidlinger & Irene Dalis

Chor und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Hans Knappertsbusch

Recorded: Live at the 1962 Bayreuth Festival

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Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg


Bernd Weikl, Siegfried Jerusalem, Mari Anne Häggander & Marga Schiml

Chor der Bayreuther Festspiele & Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Horst Stein

“Hermann Prey´s interpretation of Beckmesser as a cultivated intellectual is a triumph of dramatic and vocal artistry: a stunning performance . . . Brilliant . . . Bernd Weikl as Sachs – an almost unique combination of musical refinement and expressive power.” (Abendzeitung, Munich)

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Wagner: Die Walküre

Wagner: Die Walküre


Georgine von Milinkovic, Hans Hotter, Ramón Vinay, Gré Brouwenstijn, Josef Greindl, Astrid Varnay, Gerda Lammers, Elisabeth Schärtel, Maria von Ilosvay, Hilde Scheppan, Jean Watson, Maria Graf & Hertha Wilfert

Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, Joseph Keilberth

GGramophone Magazine

Editor's Choice - September 2006

Penguin Guide

Rosette Winner

Testament - SBT41391

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