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Siegfried Jerusalem, Waltraud Meier, Matthias Hölle, Falk Struckmann & Uta Priew Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Daniel Barenboim Tristan und Isolde in the acclaimed production by Heiner Müller from the Bayreuth festival from 1995, conducted by Daniel Barenboim with fire and sensitivity. Siegfried Jerusalem as Tristan and Waltraud Meier as Isolde have consistently drawn enthusiastic acclaim for their performance, not only in the year of the premiere, but in subsequent years as well
Heiner Müller and stage designer Erich Wonder have compressed the monumental story into a clear and fascinating geometry of love. Wonder created highly evocative spaces through projections of colours and forms which shift according to the mood
One widely noted example of Müller´s elegant, restrained interpretation, in which small gestures replace sweeping displays of passion, is the famous love duet, in which Tristan and Isolde, instead of embracing rapturously, stand back to back and side by side and touch, ever so lightly, only the tips of their fingers. “ As for the long awaited debuts of Meier and Jerusalem, the audience was ecstatic, so much so that Jerusalem excitedly hugged and kissed his partner several times during the curtain calls” (Herald Tribune) | 
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| |  | Wagner - The Great Operas from the Bayreuth FestivalContaining 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 Speical Limited Edition while stocks last only |
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Das Rheingold John Tomlinson (Bass); Bodo Brinkmann (Baritone); Graham Clark (Tenor); Linda Finnie (Mezzo Soprano); Kurt Schreibmayer (Tenor); Eva Johansson (Soprano); Birgitta Svendén (Mezzo Soprano); Günter von Kannen (Baritone); Helmut Pampuch (Tenor); Matthias Hölle (Bass); Philip Kang (Bass); Hilde Leidland (Soprano); Annette Küttenbaum (Mezzo Soprano); Jane Turner (Mezzo Soprano) Die Walküre Matthias Hölle (Bass); Poul Elming (Tenor); Anne Evans (Soprano); Nadine Secunde (Soprano); John Tomlinson (Bass); Linda Finnie (Mezzo Soprano); Linda Finnie (Mezzo Soprano); Eva Johansson (Soprano); Ruth Floeren (Soprano); Shirley Close (Mezzo Soprano); Hitomi Katagiri (Mezzo Soprano); Eva-Maria Bundschuh (Soprano); Birgitta Svendén (Mezzo Soprano); Hebe Dijkstra (Mezzo Soprano) Siegfried Siegfried Jerusalem (Tenor); Graham Clark (Tenor); John Tomlinson (Bass); Günter von Kannen (Bass); Philip Kang (Bass); Anne Evans (Soprano); Birgitta Svendén (Alto); Hilde Leidland (Soprano) Götterdämmerung iegfried Jerusalem (Tenor); Bodo Brinkmann (Baritone); Philip Kang (Bass); Günter von Kannen (Bass); Anne Evans (Soprano); Eva-Maria Bundschuh (Soprano); Waltraud Meier (Mezzo Soprano); Birgitta Svendén (Alto); Linda Finnie (Mezzo Soprano); Ute Priew (Soprano); Hilde Leidland (Soprano); Annette Küttenbaum (Mezzo Soprano); Jane Turner (Alto) Bayreuth Festival Chorus, Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim Directed by Harry Kupfer, with designs by Hans Schavernoch
This legendary Bayreuth Festival production of Wagner’s 'Der Ring des Nibelungen', directed by Harry Kupfer, with designs by Hans Schavernoch, and conducted by Daniel Barenboim, is considered perhaps the finest video recording of these four operas ever made. For their innovative modernist staging, Kupfer and his team turned away from the work’s time of origin and located The Ring at a “road of history”, a meeting-place of past, present and future, which sets the scene for the story’s struggles of power and love. Barenboim’s authoritative yet highly responsive reading of the immense score and the extraordinary performances of the cast help to make this a truly memorable Ring. “If a cycle is going as well as the Harry Kupfer/Daniel Barenboim Ring was, the super-test of Götterdämmerung brings out the best in everyone… Barenboim manipulates his orchestra with Furtwänglerian virtuosity, huge rits, pauses and all, tailor-made to the stage drama. This is the strongest of Hohlfeld’s four Ring filmings. It captures the Fritz Lang-like atmosphere of terror that Kupfer gets from this work, and is at the right angles for the moving depiction of Siegfried’s death and funeral march…” Gramophone 2007 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Plácido Domingo & Waltraud Meier Orchester Der Wiener Staatsoper, Christian Thielemann Live Recording | | DG - 4776006 (CD - 4 discs) Normally: £38.99 (£33.18 ex. VAT) Special: £27.29 (£23.23 ex. VAT) |
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Placido Domingo & Waltraud Meier Staatskapelle Berlin & Chor der Deutschen Staatsoper Berlin, Daniel Barenboim “[...] quite wonderfully played by the Berlin Staatskapelle, one of the great German orchestras which obviously has this music in its blood.”(Hugh Canning, International Record Review, March 2000) | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Wagner: | Das Rheingold Wotan (John Tomlinson), Alberich (Günter von Kannen), Donner (Bodo Brinkmann), Mime (Helmut Pampuch), Froh (Kurt Schreibmayer), Fasolt (Matthias Hölle), Loge (Graham Clark), Fafner (Philip Kang), Fricka (Linda Finnie), Woglinde (Hilde Leidland), Freia (Eva Johansson), Wellgunde (Annette Küttenbaum) & Erda (Birgitta Svendén), Flosshilde (Jane Turner) Die Walküre Siegmund (Paul Elming), Ortlinde (Ruth Floeren), Hunding (Matthias Hölle), Waltraute (Shirley Close), Wotan (John Tomlinson), Schwerttleite (Hitomi Katagiri), Sieglinde (Nadine Secunde), Helmwige (Eva-Faria Bundschuh), Brünnhilde (Anne Evans), Siegrune (Linda Finnie), Fricka (Linda Finnie), Grimgerde (Birgitta Svendén) & Gerhilde (Eva Johannson), Rossweisse (Hebe Kijkstra) Siegfried Siegfried (Siegfried Jerusalem), Alberich (Günter von Kannen), Brünnhilde (Anne Evans), Fafner (Philip Kang), Wanderer (John Tomlinson), Erda (Birgitta Svendén) & Mime (Graham Clark), Waldvogel (Hilde Leidland) Götterdämmerung Siegfried (Siegfried Jerusalem) Wanderer (John Tomlinson), Brünnhilde (Anne Evans), 1. Norn (Birgitta Svendén), Hagen (Philip Kang), 2. Norn (Linda Finnie), Gunther (Bodo Brinkmann), 3. Norn (Uta Priew), Gutrune (Eva-Maria Bundschuh), Woglinde (Hilde Leidland), Waltraute (Waltraud Meier), Wellgunde (Annette Küttenbaum) & Alberich (Günter von Kannen), Flosshilde (Jane Turner) |
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra and Choir, Daniel Barenboim (includes highlights DVD) " am more than ever impressed by Barenboim’s exciting, excitable conducting. His ability to integrate massive dramatic peaks within the ‘symphonic’ span of Wagner’s long action-packed acts, his evident love of Wagner’s orchestrations and his deeply felt response to Wagner’s most profound utterances make this the most compelling of modern recorded Rings."
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Siegfried Jerusalem, Bodo Brinkmann, Philip Kang, Günter von Kannen, Anne Evans & Waltraud Meier Chor und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Daniel Barenboim | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Siegfried Jerusalem(Tristan), Waltraud Meier(Isolde), Matti Salminen(König Marke), Falk Struckmann(Kurwenal), Johan Botha(Melot), Marjana Lipovšek(Brangäne), Peter Maus(Ein Hirt / Shepherd), Roman Trekel (Ein Steuermann / Steersman) Chor der Berliner Staatsoper, Berliner Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Waltraud Meier (mezzo-soprano), Siegfried Jerusalem (tenor) Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Siegfried Jerusalem, Cheryl Studer, Waltraud Meier, Kurt Moll Vienna Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado | | DG - 4378082 (CD - 3 discs) Normally: £38.99 (£33.18 ex. VAT) Special: £27.29 (£23.23 ex. VAT) |
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