Offer,Wagner: The Operas
including the Ring cycle
Norman Bailey (Der Holländer), Janis Martin (Senta), René Kollo (Erik), Martti Talvela (Daland), Werner Krenn (Der Steuermann), Isola Jones (Mary), Plácido Domingo (Lohengrin), Jessye Norman (Elsa), Siegmund Nimsgern (Telramund), Eva Randová (Ortrud), Han Sotin (Landgraf), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau...
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Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer
- Norman Bailey (bass-baritone), Isola Jones (mezzo-soprano), René Kollo (tenor), Martti Talvela (bass), Janis Martin (soprano), Werner Krenn (tenor)
- Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Chorus
- Sir Georg Solti
- Recorded: 1976-05-18
- Recording Venue: Medinah Temple, Chicago
Overture
"Hojoje! Hallojo! Ho!...Kein Zweifel! Sieben Meilen"
"Mit Gewitter und Sturm aus fernem Meer...Von des Südens Gestad'"
Wagner: Lohengrin
- Siegmund Nimsgern (bass), Czeslawa Slania (soprano), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Plácido Domingo (tenor), Anna Gonda (soprano), Hans Sotin (bass), Jessye Norman (soprano), Eva Randová (mezzo-soprano), Brigitte Poschner (soprano), Madelyn Renee (soprano), Thomas Mohr (bass), Anton Scharinger (bass), Alfred Sramek (bass), Peter Jelosits (tenor)
- Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Staatsoper
- Sir Georg Solti
- Recorded: 1985-11-11
- Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna
Prelude to Act 1
"Hört, Grafen, Edle, Freie von Brabant!"
"Dank, König, dir, daß du zu richten kamst!"
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
- Norman Bailey (bass-baritone), Kurt Rydl (bass), René Kollo (tenor), Rudolf A Hartmann (bass), Adolfo Dallapozza (tenor), Adalbert Kraus (tenor), Martin Egel (baritone), Julia Hamari (mezzo-soprano), Werner Klumlikboldt (bass), Hannelore Bode (soprano), Kurt Moll (bass), Wolfgang Appel (tenor), Bernd Weikl (baritone), Herbert Berger-Tuna (singer), Max Schönherr (tenor), Michel Sénéchal (tenor), Gerd Nienstedt (bass)
- Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Staatsoper, Gumpoldskirchner Spatzen
- Sir Georg Solti
- Recorded: 1975-10
- Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna
Prelude
"Da zu dir der Heiland kam"
"Verweilt! - Ein Wort"
Wagner: Parsifal
- Hans Hotter (bass), Zoltan Kelemen (bass), Lucia Popp (soprano), Gottlob Frick (bass), Marga Schiml (contralto), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Margarita Lilowa (mezzo-soprano), Herbert Lackner (bass), Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano), Robert Tear (tenor), Ewald Aichberger (baritone), Gillian Knight (mezzo-soprano), Heinz Zednik (tenor), René Kollo (tenor), Anne Howells (soprano), Rotraud Hansmann (soprano), Alison Hargan (soprano), Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano)
- Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Sängerknaben, Wiener Staatsoper
- Sir Georg Solti
- Recorded: 1971-12
- Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna
Prelude
"He! Ho! Waldhüter ihr"
"Seht dort, die wilde Reiterin"
Wagner: Das Rheingold
- Kirsten Flagstad (soprano), Kurt Böhme (bass), Waldemar Kmentt (tenor), Jean Madeira (mezzo-soprano), Hetty Plumacher (contralto), Gustav Neidlinger (bass), Claire Watson (soprano), Ira Malaniuk (contralto), Paul Kuentz (tenor), Oda Balsborg (soprano), Walter Kreppel (bass), George London (bass-baritone), Eberhard Wächter (baritone), Set Svanholm (tenor)
- Wiener Philharmoniker
- Sir Georg Solti
- Recorded: 1958-09-24
- Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna
Vorspiel
"Weia! Waga! Woge du Welle!"
"Garstig glatter glitschriger Glimmer!"
Wagner: Die Walküre
- James King (tenor), Vera Schlosser (soprano), Marilyn Tyler (soprano), Hans Hotter (bass-baritone), Régine Crespin (soprano), Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano), Ernst Wiemann (bass), Vera Little (mezzo-soprano), Gottlob Frick (bass), Birgit Nilsson (soprano), Claudia Hellmann (mezzo-soprano), Helga Dernesch (soprano), Brigitte Fassbaender (contralto), Berit Lindholm (soprano), Helen Watts (contralto)
- Wiener Philharmoniker
- Sir Georg Solti
- Recorded: 1965-11
- Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna
Orchestervorspiel
"Wes Herd dies auch, hier muß ich rasten"
"Kühlende Labung gab mir der Quell"
Wagner: Siegfried
- Gustav Neidlinger (bass), Birgit Nilsson (soprano), Gerhard Stolze (tenor), Wolfgang Windgassen (tenor), Hans Hotter (bass), Kurt Böhme (bass), Dame Joan Sutherland (soprano), Marga Höffgen (contralto)
- Wiener Philharmoniker
- Sir Georg Solti
- Recorded: 1962-05-08
- Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna
Vorspiel
Zwangvolle Plage! Müh ohne Zweck!
"Hoiho! Hoiho! Hau ein! Hau ein!"
Wagner: Götterdämmerung
- Birgit Nilsson (soprano), Lucia Popp (soprano), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Helen Watts (contralto), Gustav Neidlinger (bass), Wolfgang Windgassen (tenor), Gottlob Frick (bass), Maureen Guy (mezzo-soprano), Grace Hoffman (mezzo-soprano), Claire Watson (soprano), Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano), Gwyneth Jones (soprano), Anita Valkki (soprano)
- Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Staatsoper
- Sir Georg Solti
- Recorded: 1964-11
- Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna
"Welch Licht leuchtet dort?"
Treu beratner Verträge Runen
"Es ragt die Burg, von Riesen gebaut"
Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70 - Paris version
- Helga Dernesch (soprano), Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano), Norman Bailey (bass-baritone), René Kollo (tenor), Kurt Equiluz (tenor), Victor Braun (baritone), Werner Hollweg (tenor), Hans Sotin (bass), Manfred Jungwirth (bass)
- Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Sängerknaben, Wiener Staatsoper
- Sir Georg Solti
- Recorded: 1970-10-03
- Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna
Overture . . . "Naht euch dem Strande"
"Geliebter, sag', wo weilt dein Sinn?"
"Dir töne Lob! Die Wunder sei'n gepriesen"
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
- Peter Klein (tenor), Waldemar Kmentt (tenor), Ernst Kozub (tenor), Regina Resnik (mezzo-soprano), Birgit Nilsson (soprano), Tom Krause (baritone), Arnold van Mill (bass), Fritz Uhl (tenor), Theodor Kirschbichler (bass)
- Wiener Philharmoniker, Singverein Der Gesellschaft Der Musikfreunde
- Sir Georg Solti
- Recorded: 1960-09-06
- Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna
Prelude - Langsam und smachtend
"Westwärts schweift der Blick"
"Frisch weht der Wind der Heimat zu"