Wagner: Götterdämmerung: Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey

This is Toscanini’s only concert in stereo that survives complete. This long-time best seller has been reissued in response to widespread demand and has been digitally remastered. This final concert was recorded in Carnegie Hall on 4th April 1954 and includes Lohengrin Prelude to Act I, Siegfried Forest Murmurs and Götterdämmerung Dawn and Siegfried’s Rhine Journey.

This disc of music by Wagner, very much a staple of Furtwängler’s repertoire, draws from recordings that would be amongst the conductor’s last.

As always, the great German conductor ensures maximum expression while allowing the music to move forward in an organic way.

The legendary Norwegian soprano Kirsten Flagstad and Furtwängler were close as musicians over an extended period of time. Her beauty of tone, unforced strength, accurate intonation and ability to spin a long and precise vocal line are exemplified in this unforgettable performance of Brünnhilde’s Immolation Scene from Götterdämmerung.

Reissue Producer and Audio Restoration Engineer: Mark Obert-Thorn

The Canadian musician Glenn Gould was undoubtedly one of the greatest pianists of all time. To mark the 75th anniversary of his birth, and the 25th anniversary of his death, Sony BMG Masterworks presents this seminal artist’s vinyl recordings as re-mastered CDs, designed to replicate the exact artwork of the original gramophone records in miniaturised form. Already issued as part of an 80-CD box set (88697130942), these albums are now being made available individually, with the first 20 in the series being released in November 2007.