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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | London 02/10/1959
Wolfgang Windgassen (Siegfried), Hermann Uhde (Gunther), Gottlob Frick (Hagen), Otakar Kraus (Alberich), Astrid Varnay (Brünnhilde), Amy Shuard (Gutrune/Dritte Norn), Ursula Boese (Waltraute), Marjorie Thomas (Flosshilde/Erste Norn), Monica Sinclair (Zweite Norn), Joan Carlyle (Woglinde), Josephine Veasey (Wellgunde) The Covent Garden Orchestra & Opera Chorus, Franz Konwitschny Very good sound, first release on any format. The last installment of this fabulous Ring cycle. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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CD 1 1. Summ' und brumm', du gutes Rädchen (Der fliegende Holländer: Spinnerinnen-Chor, 2.Akt) Bayerisches Staatsorchester 2. Der fliegende Holländer - Johohoe! Traft ihr das Schiff (Senta's Ballad) (Act II) John McCarthy 3. Der fliegende Holländer - Wie aus der Ferne Dunja Vejzovic 4. Tannhäuser - Dich, teure Halle, grüss' ich wieder (Elisabeth's Greeting) (Act II) Jessye Norman 5. Zweiter Akt (Die Sängerhalle auf der Wartburg) - Den Bronnen, den uns Wolfram nannte (Walther - Chor - Tannhäuser) Rudolf Gonszar 6. Dritter Akt (Tal vor der Wartburg) - Wie Todesahnung - Oh du mein holder Abendstern (Wolfram) Rudolf Gonszar 7. Lohengrin - Einsam in trüben Tagen (Elsa's Dream) Münchner Rundfunkorchester 8. Act I - Durch Gottes Sieg ist jetzt dein Leben mein (Lohengrin, Chor, Konig, Elsa, Ortrud, Friedrich) Robert Kerns 9. Act I - Lohengrin - Acte II : Entweihte Gotter Orchestre du Théâtre National de l'Opéra de Paris 10. Act I - Treulich geführt (Lohengrin: Brautchor, 3.Akt) Bayerisches Staatsorchester 11. Act III - Das susse Lied verhallt (Lohengrin, Konig, Chor) Robert Kerns 12. Lohengrin - In fernem Land (Act III) Heinrich Bender 13. Lohengrin - Mein lieber Schwan (Act III) Heinrich Bender CD 2 Das Rheingold 1. Scene IV - He-da! he-da! he-do! zu mir du Gedüft (Donner) Andreas Schmidt 2. Scene IV - Zur Burg führt die Brücke (Froh) Peter Seiffert 3. Scene IV - Abendlich strahlt die Sonne (Wotan/Fricke) Bernard Haitink 4. Scene IV - Ihrem Ende eilen sie zu (Loge) Heinz Zednik 5. Scene IV - Rheingold! Rheingold! (Woglinde/Wellgunde/Flosshilde/Wotan/Loge) Susan Quittmeyer Die Walkure 6. Act 1 - Winderstrürme wichen dem Wonnemond (Siegmund) Reiner Goldberg 7. Act 1 - Du bist der Lenz (Sieglinde) Cheryl Studer 8. Act 1 - Oh süsseste Wonne! Cheryl Studer 9. Act 1 - Siegmund heiss ich (Siegmund/Sieglinde) Cheryl Studer 10. Act III - Hojotoho! (Walkürenritt) (Gerlinde/Helmwige/Waltraute/Schwertleite/Ortlinde/Siegrune/Grimgerde/Rossweise) Margarita Lilowa 11. Act III - Loge, hör! (Wotan) Bernard Haitink 12. Act III - Feuerzauber (Wotan) Bernard Haitink Siegfried 13. Act 1 - Was am besten er kann (Siegfried/Mime) Peter Haage 14. Act 1 - Nothung! Nothung! neidliches Schwert! (Siegfried/Mime) Peter Haage 15. Act II - Du holdes Vöglein (Waldweben) (Siegfried) Siegfried Jerusalem 16. Act II - Nun sing! Ich lausche dem Gesang (Siegfried/Waldvogel) Dame Kiri Te Kanawa Götterdämmerung 17. O heilige Götter! (Brünnhilde/Siegfried) Sir John Tomlinson 18. Hornruf (Schnell) Siegfrieds Rheinfahrt (Orchester) Sir John Tomlinson 19. Act III - Trauermarsch (Orchester) Sir John Tomlinson 20. Act III - Grane, mein Ross (Brünnhilde) Sir John Tomlinson 21. Act III - Zurück vom Ring! (Hagen) Sir John Tomlinson CD 3 1. Tannhäuser - Entry of the Guests (Grand March) Sir Adrian Boult 2. Lohengrin - Prelude to Act I New Philharmonia Orchestra 3. Lohengrin - Prelude Act III Klaus Tennstedt 4. Die Walküre - Ride of the Valkyries Otto Klemperer 5. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - Prelude to Act I Karl Anton Rickenbacher 6. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - Orchestral Suite from Act 3 - Prelude Sir John Barbirolli 7. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - Orchestral Suite from Act 3 - Dance of the Apprentices Sir John Barbirolli 8. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - Orchestral Suite from Act 3 - Entry of the Masters Sir John Barbirolli 9. Tristan und Isolde - Liebestod (Act III) Sir John Barbirolli 10. Parsifal - Prelude - Act III Sir Adrian Boult 11. Parsifal - Good Friday Music Sir Adrian Boult 12. Parsifal - Transformation Scene - Act III Sir Adrian Boult
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| |  | The Other Wagner: Symphonic Vocal and Piano Music
Wagner: | Faust Overture, WWV59 Dresdner Philharmonie, Michel Plasson Der Tag erscheint, WWV 68B Dresdner Philharmonie, Michel Plasson An Webers Grabe, WWV 72 Dresdner Philharmonie, Michel Plasson Siegfried Idyll Dresdner Philharmonie, Michel Plasson Trauersinfonie, WWV 73 Dresdner Philharmonie, Michel Plasson Das Liebesmahl der Apostel, WWV 69 Dresdner Philharmonie, Michel Plasson Symphony in E: Allegro con spirito Philadelphia Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch Christoph Columbus: Overture Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Jeffrey Tate Huldigungsmarsch, WWV 97 London Symphony Orchestra, Marek Janowski Kaisermarsch, WWV104 London Symphony Orchestra, Marek Janowski Großer Festmarsch (Centennial March) for the centenary of the independence of the USA London Symphony Orchestra, Marek Janowski Wesendonck-Lieder (5) with orchestra Christa Ludwig (mezzo) Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer Ankunft bei den schwarzen Schwänen (Arrival among the black swans) Mikhail Rudy (piano) Piano Sonata in A flat Mikhail Rudy (piano) Elegy in A flat Mikhail Rudy (piano) Siegfried Idyll arr. for piano by Rubinstein and Rudy Mikhail Rudy (piano) Wesendonck-Lieder (5) with piano Jessye Norman (soprano), Irwin Gage (piano) Mignonne, allons voir si la rose, WWV 57 Thomas Hampson (baritone), Geoffrey Parsons (piano) Soupir - 'Tout n'est qu'images fugitives', WWV 58 Thomas Hampson (baritone), Geoffrey Parsons (piano) Der Tannenbaum, WWV 50 Thomas Hampson (baritone), Geoffrey Parsons (piano) |
Wagner is, of course, best known for his operas, but he actually wrote music in an unexpectedly wide variety of genres. Encompassing orchestral works, overtures, marches, songs, choral works and piano music, this collection complements Wagner’s great operas, providing fascinating insights into the composer’s emerging style and musical techniques. It also showcases some rousing, moving and powerful music that is well worth discovering. “The plums...are two classic accounts of the Wesendonck-Lieder: in Felix Mottl’s orchestration by the incomparable Christa Ludwig and Otto Klemperer; and in the original piano version by a radiant 25-year-old Jessye Norman, with Irwin Gage, in 1969.” Sunday Times, 16th December 2012 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | The Essential Wagner
Hildegard Behrens, Jessye Norman, Helga Dernesch, Cheryl Studer, Birgit Nilsson (sopranos), Marjana Lipovsek, Christa Ludwig (mezzos), Siegfried Jerusalem, Jon Vickers, Nicolai Gedda, Ben Heppner (tenors), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Kurt Moll (bass) Bernard Haitink, Klaus Tennstedt, Herbert von Karajan, Andre Cluytens, Sir Adrian Boult The best-loved and most popular works by Richard Wagner, performed by the world’s leading artists, in an accessible format at budget price. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Wagner: The Great Operas
Wagner: | Rienzi René Kollo (Cola Rienzi), Siv Wennberg (Irene), Nikolaus Hillebrand (Steffano Colonna) & Janis Martin (Adriano Colonna) Choir of the State Opera in Dresden & Staatskapelle Dresden, Heinrich Hollreiser Der fliegende Holländer Theo Adam (Dutchman), Anja Silja (Senta) & Martti Talvela (Daland) BBC Chorus & New Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer Tannhäuser Klaus König (Tannhäuser), Lucia Popp (Elisabeth), Bernd Weikl (Wolfram von Eschenbach) & Waltraud Meier (Venus) Choir and Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio, Bernard Haitink Lohengrin Jess Thomas (Lohengrin), Elisabeth Grummer (Elsa of Brabant), Christa Ludwig (Ortrud) & Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Friedrich von Telramund) Choir of the Vienna State Opera & Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Rudolf Kempe Der Ring des Nibelungen Robert Hale (Wotan), Marjana Lipovsek (Fricka), Ekkehard Wlaschina (Alberich), Helmut Pampuch (Mime), Kurt Moll (Fafner, Hunding), Hildegard Behrens (Brünnhilde), Julia Varady (Sieglinde ), Robert Schunk (Siegmund), René Kollo (Siegfried), Matti Salminen (Hagen), Hans Günter Nöcker (Gunther) & Lisbeth Balslev (Gutrune) Chorus of the Bavarian State Opera & Bavarian State Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch Tristan und Isolde Plácido Domingo (Tristan), Nina Stemme (Isolde), Mihoko Fujimara (Brangaene) & René Pape (King Mark) Royal Opera Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera Hous, Antonio Pappano Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Theo Adam (Hans Sachs), Geraint Evans (Sixtus Beckmesser), René Kollo (Walther von Stolzing), Peter Schreier (David) & Helen Donath (Eva) Choir of the State Opera in Dresden & Choir of the Leipzig Radio Staatskapelle Dresden, Herbert von Karajan Parsifal Donald McIntyre (Gurnemanz), Waltraud Meier (Kundry), Phillip Joll (Amfortas) & Warren Ellsworth (Parsifal) Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, Reginald Goodall |
36 CD box presenting 11 of Wagner's operas - including a complete Ring Cycle Release 60page booklet Wagner's operas broke new ground in terms of both the harmonic language and on approach to the genre in which narrative and drama took precedence over the restrictions of musical Form. Encompassing the profoundly human themes of love, death, redemption, power and revenge, the operas made unprecedented demands on singers' stamina and virtuosity. This 36-CD box presents a comprehensive survey of Wagner's great operas and features a wealth of legendary artists, many of whom are renowned for their Particularly interpretations of Wagner's music. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Wagner: | Der fliegende Holländer Juha Uusitalo (Der Hollander), Robert Lloyd (Daland), Catherine Naglestad (Senta), Marco Jentzsch (Erik), Marina Prudenskaja (Mary), Oliver Ringelhahn (Der Steuermann) Chorus of The Netherlands Opera & Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Harmut Haenchen (conductor) & Martin Kušej (director) Der Ring des Nibelungen Das Rheingold: Falk Struckmann (Wotan), Graham Clark (Loge), Günter von Kannen (Alberich), Lioba Braun (Fricka), Kwanchul Youn (Fasolt), Matthias Hölle (Fafner), Elisabete Matos (Freia), Wolfgang Rauch (Donner), Jeffrey Dowd (Froh), Francisco Vas (Mime), Andrea Bönig (Erda), Christina Obregón (Woglinde), Ana Ibarra (Wellgunde), Francisca Beaumont (Flosshilde)
Die Walküre: Richard Berkeley-Steele (Siegmund), Linda Watson (Sieglinde), Eric Halfvarson (Hunding), Helen Traubel (Brünnhilde), Falk Struckmann (Wotan), Lioba Braun (Fricka), Sabine Brohm (Gerhilde), Anneger Stumphius (Ortlinde), Marisa Altmann-Althausen (Waltraute), Andrea Bönig (Schwertleite), Heike Gierhardt (Helmwige), Mireia Pintó (Siegrune), Corinne Romijn (Grimgerde), Francisca Beaumont (Rossweisse)
Siegfried: John Treleaven (Siegfried), Deborah Polaski (Brünnhilde), Graham Clark (Mime), Falk Struckmann (Der Wanderer), Günter von Kannen (Alberich), Eric Halfvarson (Fafner), Andrea Bönig (Erda), Cristina Obregón (Waldvogel)
Götterdämmerung: John Treleaven (Siegfried), Deborah Polaski (Brünnhilde), Matti Salminen (Hagen), Falk Struckmann (Gunther), Günter von Kannen (Alberich), Elisabete Matos (Gutrune), Julia Juon (Waltraute), Cristina Obregón (Woglinde), María Rodríguez (Wellgunde), Francisca Beaumont (Flosshilde), Julia Juon (1. Norn), Leandra Overmann (2. Norn), Elisabete Matos (3. Norn) Symphony Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Bertrand de Billy (conductor); Harry Kupfer (director) Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Gerald Finley (Hans Sachs), Anna Gabler (Eva), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Sixtus Beckmesser), Marco Jentzsch (Walther von Stolzing), Topi Lehtipuu (David), Michaela Selinger (Magdalene), Alastair Miles (Veit Pogner), Henry Waddington (Fritz Kothner), Mats Almgren (Nightwatchman), Colin Judson (Kunz Vogelgesang), Andrew Slater (Konrad Nachtigall), Alasdair Elliott (Balthasar Zorn), Adrian Thompson (Ulrich Eisslinger), Daniel Norman (Augustin Moser), Robert Poulton (Hermann Ortel), Maxim Mikailov (Hans Schwarz), Graeme Broadbent (Hans Foltz) London Philharmonic Orchestra, The Glyndebourne Chorus, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) & David McVicar (stage director) Lohengrin Klaus Florian Vogt (Lohengrin), Solveig Kringelborn (Elsa), Waltraud Meier (Ortrud), Tom Fox (Telramund), Hans-Peter König (King Heinrich), Roman Trekel (Herald) EuropaChorAkademie Mainz, Chorus of the Opéra national de Lyon & Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Kent Nagano (conductor) & Nikolaus Lehnhoff (stage director) Parsifal Christopher Ventris (Parsifal), Waltraud Meier (Kundry), Matti Salminen (Gurnemanz), Tom Fox (Klingsor), Thomas Hampson (Amfortas), Bjarni Thor Kristinsson (Titurel) Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin & Festspielchor Baden-Baden,, Kent Nagano (conductor) & Nikolaus Lehnhoff (stage director) Tannhäuser Stig Andersen (Tannhäuser), Tina Keberg (Elisabeth), Susanne Resmark (Venus), Tommi Hakala (Wolfram), Stephen Milling (Hermann) Royal Danish Opera, Friedemann Layer (conductor), Kasper Holten (stage director) Tristan und Isolde Robert Gambill (Tristan), Nina Stemme (Isolde), Katarina Karnéus (Brangäne), Bo Skovhus (Kurwenal), René Pape (König Marke), Stephen Gadd (Melot), Timothy Robinson (Hirt/Junger Seemann), Richard Mosley-Evans (Steuermann) London Philharmonic Orchestra, The Glyndebourne Chorus, Jirí Belohlávek (conductor), Nikolaus Lehnhoff (stage director) |
This set presents all of Wagner’s mature operas from seven leading European opera houses recorded during the last decade, featuring many of the most acclaimed Wagner singers of our age, in productions which exult in the force of Ezra Pound’s dictum, ‘Great art is news that stays news’. The directors Harry Kupfer, Nikolaus Lehnhoff, David McVicar and others heed Wagner’s own persuasive plea, ‘Children, make it new’, in stagings employing sophisticated modern technology within grand designs which face up to the breadth of Wagner’s dramatic genius and the social and political implications of his work for us today. Special Wagner anniversary DVD collection presented in luxury packaging. Released at a highly competitive price. Running time: 40 hours approx. Subtitles: Der Fliegende Holländer: EN/FR/DE/ES/NE Der Ring Des Nibelungen: EN/FR/ DE/ES/CA/IT Lohengrin: EN/FR/ DE/ES/IT Tannhäuser: EN/FR/ DE/ES/DA/CH Parsifal: EN/FR/ DE/ES/IT Tristan und Isolde – EN/FR/ DE/ES/IT Sound format: LPCM Stereo & 5.1 DTS (except Der Fliegende Holländer: Dolby Digital 2.0 & 5.1 DTS) | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Royal Opera House, London 28/9/1959
Good sound, first release on any format. The last installment of this fabulous Ring cycle will be released in November. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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PentaTone continues its highly successful Wagner Opera series with the next installment, Tristan and Isolde. The series so far has been unanimously welcomed by the press; Meistersingers is nominated for this year’s Gramophone Award, was The Sunday Times joint Disc of the Week along with Parsifal, and the most recent release, Lohengrin is the Gramophone Awards Edition Opera Disc of the Month. Marek Janowski again conducts the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir, this time joined by soloists Nina Stemme and Stephen Gould in the title roles. “this finds [Stemme] at her glorious peak, making much more of the text than in her previous recordings. She now stands proud as the leading Isolde and Brünnhilde of her generation and an interpreter to rank with her greatest predecessors on disc...[Gould] is probably the darkest-voiced contemporary interpreter of the exhausting part, and he is tireless and touching, if not always tonally alluring.” Sunday Times, 4th November 2012 “Tristan confirms Nina Stemme as the Isolde de nos jours. She and Stephen Gould are at their best in the Act 2 love duet, which obliges them to sing lyrically. Gould’s Tristan is otherwise rough and ready.” Financial Times, 5th January 2013 *** “Janowski demands heroic efforts in speed and intensity. He favours a swift performance, and in this live Tristan that means more excitement than emotion. Soprano Nina Stemme is the ranking Isolde of our time; she has a beautiful voice and paces herself perfectly. But I can't hear much passion in the delivery.” BBC Music Magazine, February 2013 *** “It is something of a miracle that a recording of Tristan and Isolde as accomplished as this one can emerge from a single concert performance…It is highly dramatic, tremendously well sustained and very well recorded, so that the mighty structure and the richly blended textures emerge with unusual
clarity and immediacy.” Gramophone Magazine, February 2013 | | | (also available to download from $34.00) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | The Early Domingo
CD 1: Arias from Giulio Cesare, Don Giovanni, Il duca d'Alba, La Juive, Luisa Miller, Lohengrin, Simon Boccanegra, Eugene Onegin, Le Villi, Iris, Werther, Luisa Fernanda, El último romántico, Rigoletto, La traviata CD 2: Arias from La bohème, L'elisir d'amore, Pagliacci, Manon, L'arlesiana, Martha, La fanciulla del West, Rigoletto, Le Cid, L'Africaine, Aida, Carmen, Andrea Chénier, Cavalleria rusticana, Il trovatore, Tosca CD 3: Arias from Cavalleria rusticana, Faust, Rigoletto, La forza del destino, Adriana Lecouvreur, Turandot, La fanciulla del West, Gianni Schicchi, Les Pêcheurs de perles, Un ballo in maschera, Roméo et Juliette, Chatterton, Mefistofele, Norma, Andrea Chénier, Tosca, I Vespri sicilliani, Il trovatore, Otello CD 4: Arias from Don Carlo, Un ballo in maschera, I Vespri sicilliani, La forza del destino, Otello, Aida CD 5: Arias from La bohème, Manon Lescaut, Francesca da Rimini, Les Pêcheurs de perles, Los claveles, Norma, La Gioconda, Madama Butterfly
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