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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Great Composers - Wagnerfrom the BBC TV series
This landmark series presents the lives and works of seven musical giants from the Baroque era to the twentieth century. It examines the backgrounds, influences and relationships that make these seven composers part of the very fabric of the history of western music. Each composer’s life and work is presented through extensive performance sequences, and through interviews and comment from some of today’s greatest artists and most respected authorities. | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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Live from the MET January 10, 1986 “The Met brought out its best available performers. . . James Levine. . . controls the music superbly and. . . brings out a texture of sound in which Wagnerian sensualists can simply wallow.” Washington Post | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Subtitles: Fr, Eng, Ger, Span "A bold gamble and an exemplary success.... An interpretation that is intelligent, superlatively
musical and unfailingly sensitive." Le Monde | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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| |  | Hans Knappertsbusch at the Wiener Festwochen, 1963
Recorded - Musikverein, Vienna, 21 May, 1963 “Nobody today, not even Goodall, can match Knappertsbusch’s combination of line and emotional power” Gramophone Magazine | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Live from the MET November 22, 1982 “This richly traditional staging still looks superb and often sounds it in Levine's passionate reading, especially Troyanos' Venus and Weikl's Wolfram. But Cassilly is a dry-voiced hero, and the chorus is underpowered.” BBC Music Magazine, August 2006 *** “One of the most gorgeous and gloriously romantic productions in the Met´s repertory . . . the scenic designs are both breathtakingly grand and painstakingly subtle” New York Times | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Hans Knappertsbusch at the Wiener Festwochen, 1962
Musikverein, Vienna, 31 May, 1962 “Nobody today, not even Goodall, can match Knappertsbusch's combination of line and emotional power” The Gramophone | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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“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) “The best Meistersinger on video so far reaches DVD at last. Stein isn't the most individual interpreter, but his immense Bayreuth experience and craft illuminate the score with deceptive naturalness, its glowing textures brought out by the marvellous orchestra and chorus. Soloists fit their roles no less naturally.” BBC Music Magazine, July 2006 ***** “...an exceptionally starry cast, with not a single weak link and with many strengths...Wolfgang Wagner's sets and costumes are grandly traditional and add greatly to the impact of the piece...An outstanding version, with Horst Stein pacing the massive work splendidly.” Penguin Guide, 2010 **** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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John Bröcheler (Wotan), Henk Smit (Alberich), Reinhild Runkel (Fricka), Chris Merritt (Loge), Peter Mikulás (Fasolt), Carsten Harboe Stabell (Fafner), Graham Clark (Mime), Jürgen Freierin (Donner), Albert Bonnema (Froh), Anne Gjevang (Erda), Carola Höhn (Freia), Gabriele Fontana (Woglinde), Hanna Schaer (Wellgunde), Catherine Keen (Flosshilde) Residentie Orkest, Hartmut Haenchen Recorded at Het Muziektheater Amsterdam.
PICTURE FORMAT: 16:9
LENGTH: 198 Mins
SOUND: DTS SURROUND / LPCM STEREO
SUBTITLES: EN/FR/DE/ES/IT/NL/JP
“The drama is played straight, the mythical elements respected, with towering giants, sinister Nibelungen, and suitable god-like gods… musically this is equally promising. Haenchen's studied reading… is refreshingly brisk, as Wagner preferred.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2006 **** “Amsterdam’s new Ring has begun very promisingly: the crucial architecture is already in place” The Independent | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | The Television Concerts (1948-52)Volume One
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| |  | Arturo Toscanini - The Television Concerts (1948-52)Volume Two
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