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Wagner: | Der Ring des Nibelungen Written and read by Stephen Johnson |
(2 CDs + 20 page booklet). This two-CD guide explains the basics of the plot, profiles the leading characters, and shows how Wagner’s revolutionary music adds fascinating layers of meaning and psychological insight, as well as providing some of the most stirring and intoxicating moments in the entire operatic repertoire. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Wagner: Der Ring des NibelungenAn Organ Transcription
Hansjorg Albrecht (organ) | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Wagner: Der Ring des NibelungenAn Introduction to the Opera
Vienna Philharmonic, Georg Solti Famed British Musicologist, Deryck Cooke, offers insightful comentary highlighted with musical examples performed by the Vienna Philharmonic under the direction of Sir Georg Solti. This unique recording has been sought be collectors for many years.
This album is an audio explanation and analysis of Wagner's system of leitmotifs by Deryck Cooke with 193 music examples either extracted from the complete recordings or specially recorded for this production. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Wagner: Der Ring des NibelungenLive Recording from The
Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar 2008
Frieder Aurich, Kirsten Blanck, Erin Caves, Catherine Foster, Christine Hansmann, Mario Hoff, Renatus Mészár, Tomas Möwes, Norbert Schmittberg, Hidekazu Tsumaya, Johnny van Hal, Nadine Weissmann & Marietta Zumbült Staatskapelle Weimar & Chorus of The Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, Carl St.Clair (Conductor) & Michael Schulz (director) NOTE: These Blu-ray Discs are not compatible with standard DVD players. First ring cycle box set on Blu-ray. Set Design by Dirk Becker, Costume Design by Renée Listerdal & Dramaturgy by Wolfgang Willaschek. Outside Germany, the name Weimar tends to evoke mixed feelings and pictures of German history of the last hundred years. Within Germany, Weimar means a town in the state of Thuringia arguably saturated with the “Deutsche Kultur” of the “Weimarer Klassik”, the legendary Bauhaus, and fi nally the life and work of Franz Liszt and his son in law Richard Wagner. In Weimar Richard Wagner began composing the first part of his RING-cycle, “Das Rheingold”. In 2008 the Nationaltheater Weimar started a new production of this unique tetralogy. The conductor is Carl St.Clair, a former student of Leonard Bernstein. With Michael Schulz’ fine and highly intelligent staging this new “Ring” production becomes an outstanding document of contemporary opera theatre. Sound Format: PCM Stereo, dts-HD Master Audio 5.1 Picture Format: 16:9 Resolution: 1080i FULL HD Menu Language: GB Blu-ray Disc: 4 x 50 GB (Dual Layer) Subtitle Languages: DE, GB, FR, IT, ES, Japanese Running Time: approx. 940 mins FSK: 6 Region Code: worldwide | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Wagner: Der Ring des NibelungenLive Recording from The Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar 2008
Frieder Aurich, Kirsten Blanck, Erin Caves, Catherine Foster, Christine Hansmann, Mario Hoff, Renatus Mészár, Tomas Möwes, Norbert Schmittberg, Hidekazu Tsumaya, Johnny van Hal, Nadine Weissmann & Marietta Zumbült Orchestra and Chorus of The Staatskapelle Weimar, Carl St.Clair (conductor) & Michael Schulz (director) Set Design by Dirk Becker, Costume Design by Renée Listerdal & Dramaturgy by Wolfgang Willaschek. Outside Germany, the name Weimar tends to evoke mixed feelings and pictures of German history of the last hundred years. Within Germany, Weimar means a town in the state of Thuringia arguably saturated with the “Deutsche Kultur” of the “Weimarer Klassik”, the legendary Bauhaus, and finally the life and work of Franz Liszt and his son in law Richard Wagner. In Weimar Richard Wagner began composing the first part of his RING-cycle, “Das Rheingold”. In 2008 the Nationaltheater Weimar started a new production of this unique tetralogy. The conductor is Carl St.Clair, a former student of Leonard Bernstein. With Michael Schulz’ fine and highly intelligent staging this new “Ring” production becomes an outstanding document of contemporary opera theatre. Sound Format: PCM Stereo, DD 5.1 DVD Format: 7 x DVD 9, NTSC Picture Format: 16:9 Subtitle Languages: DE, GB, FR, IT, ES, JP FSK: 6 Running Time: about 940 mins | 
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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 Siegfried 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 Magazine |
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| |  | Wagner - The Copenhagen Ring
Wagner: | Der Ring des Nibelungen |
Seven-DVD set of Wagner’s gargantuan Ring Cycle – the celebrated, critically-acclaimed production at the Royal Danish Opera, come to be known as the Copenhagen Ring. Striking, memorable and controversial staging by Kasper Bech Holten. The action, experienced as an extended flashback, presents Wagner’s epic as a family saga from a feminist perspective. The production is visually stunning, disturbing and at times explicit. “The first of several wonders in this new set… is the intuitive performing skill of a genuine house ensemble. …Copenhagen has achieved a class Ring with just one guest, James Johnson's Walküre/Siegfried Wotans. Moreover, if Stockholm is the Venice of the north, the Royal Danish Orchestra must be the Vienna Philharmonic of the north with its forward, rich woodwind timbres (a Nielsen sound, wholly suitable for Nibelung music) and cool-sweet string tone, the whole integrated, balanced and paced with a Kempe-like swiftness and attention to rhythmic detail by their chief Michael Schønwandt. ...the visual editing is busy, justifying allusions to the hand-held operation rediscovered by Danish art cinema directors. It gives the films a breathless close-up quality, the absolute inverse of the accustomed best-seat-in-the-stalls approach. Kasper Bech Holten's production... is... costumed and situated between (approximately) 1920 and the 1990s, and - through ever-ingenious lateral thinking - finds latter-day equivalents for Wagner's geography, properties and dramatic violence. In addition to the sheer zip of performance and filming, the sound picture is warm, resonant and true, the English subtitles... give an unsually revealing and detailed insight into Wagner's text, and, winningly, the "extra" item consists of a discussion between the stage director and his country's opera-loving head of state.” Gramophone Magazine, April 2009 “superbly acted, more than decently sung and executed with a technical bravura that puts recent London stagings to shame” Sunday Times | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Das Rheingold Birgitta Svendén (Mezzo Soprano); Anthony Raffell (Bass); James Morris (Bass); Christa Ludwig (Mezzo Soprano); Ekkehard Wlaschiha (Baritone); Siegfried Jerusalem (Tenor); Jessye Norman (Soprano); Hildegard Behrens (Soprano); Gary Lakes (Tenor); Matti Salminen (Bass); Heinz Zednik (Tenor) Die Walküre Birgitta Svendén (Mezzo Soprano); Anthony Raffell (Bass); James Morris (Bass); Christa Ludwig (Mezzo Soprano); Ekkehard Wlaschiha (Baritone); Siegfried Jerusalem (Tenor); Jessye Norman (Soprano); Hildegard Behrens (Soprano); Gary Lakes (Tenor); Matti Salminen (Bass); Heinz Zednik (Tenor) Siegfried Birgitta Svendén (Mezzo Soprano); Anthony Raffell (Bass); James Morris (Bass); Christa Ludwig (Mezzo Soprano); Ekkehard Wlaschiha (Baritone); Siegfried Jerusalem (Tenor); Jessye Norman (Soprano); Hildegard Behrens (Soprano); Gary Lakes (Tenor); Matti Salminen (Bass); Heinz Zednik (Tenor) Götterdämmerung Birgitta Svendén (Mezzo Soprano); Anthony Raffell (Bass); James Morris (Bass); Christa Ludwig (Mezzo Soprano); Ekkehard Wlaschiha (Baritone); Siegfried Jerusalem (Tenor); Jessye Norman (Soprano); Hildegard Behrens (Soprano); Gary Lakes (Tenor); Matti Salminen (Bass); Heinz Zednik (Tenor) Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus, James Levine Subtitles in German, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese "DVD's second 'Ring' cycle deserves a warm welcome, however qualified. None of the video-recorded versions can be called ideal; but the Met cycle has plenty of strong points. It's the only one Wagner would have recognised - no small consideration. Here, Otto Schenk and designer Gunther Schneider-Siemssen preserve the Romantic imagery, often beautifully, as Brian Large's cameras reveal; but unimaginatively, with too many tired compromises." - Gramophone | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Das Rheingold Heinz Zednik (Tenor); Donald McIntyre (Baritone); Hanna Schwarz (Mezzo Soprano); Siegfried Jerusalem (Tenor); Matti Salminen (Bass); Hermann Becht (Baritone); Norma Sharp (Soprano); Martin Egel (Baritone) Die Walküre Wyneth Jones (Soprano); Donald McIntyre (Baritone); Jeanine Altmeyer (Soprano); Peter Hofmann (Tenor); Hanna Schwarz (Mezzo Soprano); Matti Salminen (Bass) Siegfried Manfred Jung (Tenor); Donald McIntyre (Baritone); Heinz Zednik (Tenor); Gwyneth Jones (Soprano); Gwendolyn Killebrew (Mezzo Soprano); Norma Sharp (Soprano); Hermann Becht (Baritone); Fritz Hübner (Bass) Götterdämmerung Gwyneth Jones (Soprano); Manfred Jung (Tenor); Fritz Hübner (Bass); Jeanine Altmeyer (Soprano); Hermann Becht (Baritone); Franz Mazura (Baritone); Gwendolyn Killebrew (Mezzo Soprano) Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Pierre Boulez & directed by Patrice Chéreau Coupled with a bonus DVD of Der Ring Des Nibelungen - Documentary | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Frederick Schorr, Astrid Varnay, Lauritz Melchior, Kirsten Flagstad New York Metropolitan Opera, Artur Bodanzky | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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