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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 | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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