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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Wagner: Der fliegende HolländerRecorded live at the Savonlinna Opera Festival 1989
Designer JUHANI PIRSKANEN Directed for video by AARNO CRONVALL Ilkka Bäckman's acclaimed production takes place outdoors in the huge courtyard of Finland's 500-year-old Olavinlinna Castle – a majestic and impressive setting, which gives the production an atmosphere and realism. Hildegard Behrens, at the height of her career, is the tragic Senta, whose destiny is to redeem the Dutchman from his fate. The German bass-baritone, Franz Grundheber, sings the title role, and Finland's own Matti Salminen is the Norwegian sea captain, Daland. SUBTITLED IN ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN, SPANISH DOLBY DIGITAL 2.0 STEREO 139 MINS REGIONS 2-6 NTSC 4:3 COLOUR DVD-9 | 
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Launching a new complete Wagner cycle comprising all Wagner’s 10 major operas, these were all recorded over a period of 4 years in the Philharmonie in Berlin and all use the same forces of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester and Chor. Conducted by Marek Janowski and performed by a top line up of soloists, this is unique recording feat in a complete Wagner series. “Recorded live in Berlin, the orchestra and the splendid Radio Chorus are the most impressive elements...The veteran Matti Salminen is still a formidable Daland, but Albert Dohmen’s intelligent Dutchman and Ricarda Merbeth’s committed Senta sound vocally worn and stretched.” Sunday Times, 11th September 2011 “Here is charm, wit and even kitsch alongside the spooky but never overdone drama. The recording is also first-rate in warmth, immediacy and clarity...the best all-round modern performance of the opera and a good nod towards the original-instrument version of this edition of the score we still need.” Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2011 “Janowski's conducting is crisp and fleet-footed, shaping the music naturally and fluently...[Dohmen] is a warm anti-hero, but too soft-grained to sound demonically desperate. Matti Salminen's Daland is vocally worn but still amazing for his age. Vocal honours, though, go to Ricarda Merbeth's keen, nervy Senta, and the two tenors...also the clean-cut chorus, which is reasonably dramatically involved.” BBC Music Magazine, December 2011 **** “It is astonishing that veteran Matti Salminen...can still shine as Daland...but his is the star voice here. Robert Dean Smith gives good value, too, in the tricky role of Erik...Steve Davislim is something of a catch as a lyrically sung Steersman...Janowksi's conducting has a momentum and a sense of abstract theatre which can take the breath away. I won't be jettisoning my allegiances, however, to the older conductors' singers.” International Record Review, November 2011 | | | (also available to download from $21.00) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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The mid-price collection presents some of the most important and admired recordings of the EMI Classics and Virgin Classics catalogue which make EMI The Home of Opera. This performance of The Flying Dutchman was recorded in 1968 at Abbey Road Studios, London. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Der fliegende HollÄnder is Wagner’s first mature opera and marks the start of his music dramas which would culminate in his last opera, Parsifal. The opera tells the legend of the Flying Dutchman — the wandering Jew of the seas, who can only find release from his constant travels until Judgement Day if he finds a woman who will love him faithfully until death. The famous overture sets the scene and contains all the famous musical motifs found in the opera. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Wagner: Der fliegende HolländerStaged and Directed by: Vaclav Kaslik
Filmed at Bavaria Studios, Munich 1974 “Václav Kašlík goes whole-heartedly for the Romantic jugular - very creditably, too, with lost of dark water, two huge ships, and lashings of spooky effects. …the finest 'traditional' version available.” BBC Music Magazine, Proms 2008 ***** “The adaptaion by the Czech director Václav Kaslik...succeeds in gripping the viewer visually as successfully as does Wolfgang Sawallisch musically. Indeed Sawallisch is the reason to investigate this set for he gets gloriously eloquent playing from his wonderful Bavarian forces. No complaints about the soloists either.” Penguin Guide, 2010 **/*  BBC Music Magazine
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| |  | Wagner: Der fliegende HolländerSung in German
Recorded 1971 “Recorded live at Bayreuth in 1971, Wagner's opera has a problematic Dutchman in the shape of the late Thomas Stewart, Gwyneth Jones as an uneven Senta, but Karl Ridderbusch makes a first-rate Daland and Böhm's conducting is thrilling.” BBC Music Magazine, September 2007 **** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Wagner: Der fliegende HolländerParis version, 1841
Terje Stensvold (Der Holländer), Franz-Josef Selig (Donald [Daland]), Astrid Weber (Senta), Jörg Dürmüller (Georg [Erik]), Simone Schröder (Mary), Kobie van Rensburg (Steuermann) Bruno Weil Only a few people are aware that Richard Wagner completed the original version of his Flying Dutchman in 1841 in Paris, two years before the first performance was given in Dresden in 1843. This live concert recording presents the original Paris score of the opera on disc for the first time, giving today’s music-lover the opportunity to hear the opera as it was originally composed – played on original instruments and with the story set not in Norway, but Scotland! Bruno Weil’s vibrant reading of the score shows Wagner’s opera as the final great flowering of Romantic opera in the first half of the 19th century. This 2CD set is in standard opera packaging (box) with separate 64 page booklet, including the opera libretto in German and English as well as liner notes and synopsis additionally in French. “Musically, one notes instantly the extra clarity of textures and the fact hat the orchestra does not so easily overwhelm the singers...Jörg Dürmüller is excellent as Georg, Germanic in tone yet free from strain...Lively conducting and first-rate sound.” Penguin Guide, 2010 **/* | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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