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| |  | Recorded 1954
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Richard Decker (Parsifal), Matthias Hölle (Gurnemanz), Wolfgang Schöne (Amfortas), Doris Soffel (Kundry), Mikolaj Zalasinski (Klingsor), Ulrich Dünnebach (Titurel) Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Gabor Otvös Parsifal, the last opera written by the great German composer, was premièred in Bayreuth in 1882. In the fifty years of his artistic life Wagner did not only mature and outline more and more clearly the aesthetic ideals that formed the intellectual substratum of his composing activity but definitely upset the course of the history of music and of the music theatre. The wide range of his cultural interests, his operational daring, ability to blend elements of different origin, complete rejection of any form of operatic routine and grandiosity of onception make of each and every opera that he wrote a sort of artistic case in its own, where the experiences of previous works are salvaged or abandoned ccording to the expressive needs, which are never subordinate to contingent ecessities. Performing this complex work is no simple task, but the cast on stage at Teatro La Fenice in Venice did so with flying colours. | |
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Recorded Bayreuth 1960 | | Gala - GL100655 (CD - 4 discs) Normally: $29.25 Special: $23.40 |
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Live recording, Rome, 29th March 1956 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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This concert recording represents a real stroke of luck, for which we have to thank a conductor – Herbert Kegel – who championed music during the GDR era that was not viewed as "politically correct". This 1975 recording of Parsifal, featuring snappy tempos and devoid of the usual mystique surrounding Wagner, is an interpretation which seems to have evolved well ahead of its time. | 
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| |  | Ferdinand Leitner Anniversary Edition
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| |  | The Wagner Edition
Wagner: | Der fliegende Holländer Juha Uusitalo (Der Hollander), Robert Lloyd (Daland), Catherine Naglestad (Senta), Marco Jentzsch (Erik), Marina Prudenskaja (Mary), Oliver Ringelhahn (Der Steuermann) Chorus of The Netherlands Opera & Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Harmut Haenchen (conductor) & Martin Kušej (director) Der Ring des Nibelungen Das Rheingold: Falk Struckmann (Wotan), Graham Clark (Loge), Günter von Kannen (Alberich), Lioba Braun (Fricka), Kwanchul Youn (Fasolt), Matthias Hölle (Fafner), Elisabete Matos (Freia), Wolfgang Rauch (Donner), Jeffrey Dowd (Froh), Francisco Vas (Mime), Andrea Bönig (Erda), Christina Obregón (Woglinde), Ana Ibarra (Wellgunde), Francisca Beaumont (Flosshilde)
Die Walküre: Richard Berkeley-Steele (Siegmund), Linda Watson (Sieglinde), Eric Halfvarson (Hunding), Helen Traubel (Brünnhilde), Falk Struckmann (Wotan), Lioba Braun (Fricka), Sabine Brohm (Gerhilde), Anneger Stumphius (Ortlinde), Marisa Altmann-Althausen (Waltraute), Andrea Bönig (Schwertleite), Heike Gierhardt (Helmwige), Mireia Pintó (Siegrune), Corinne Romijn (Grimgerde), Francisca Beaumont (Rossweisse)
Siegfried: John Treleaven (Siegfried), Deborah Polaski (Brünnhilde), Graham Clark (Mime), Falk Struckmann (Der Wanderer), Günter von Kannen (Alberich), Eric Halfvarson (Fafner), Andrea Bönig (Erda), Cristina Obregón (Waldvogel)
Götterdämmerung: John Treleaven (Siegfried), Deborah Polaski (Brünnhilde), Matti Salminen (Hagen), Falk Struckmann (Gunther), Günter von Kannen (Alberich), Elisabete Matos (Gutrune), Julia Juon (Waltraute), Cristina Obregón (Woglinde), María Rodríguez (Wellgunde), Francisca Beaumont (Flosshilde), Julia Juon (1. Norn), Leandra Overmann (2. Norn), Elisabete Matos (3. Norn) Symphony Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Bertrand de Billy (conductor); Harry Kupfer (director) Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Gerald Finley (Hans Sachs), Anna Gabler (Eva), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Sixtus Beckmesser), Marco Jentzsch (Walther von Stolzing), Topi Lehtipuu (David), Michaela Selinger (Magdalene), Alastair Miles (Veit Pogner), Henry Waddington (Fritz Kothner), Mats Almgren (Nightwatchman), Colin Judson (Kunz Vogelgesang), Andrew Slater (Konrad Nachtigall), Alasdair Elliott (Balthasar Zorn), Adrian Thompson (Ulrich Eisslinger), Daniel Norman (Augustin Moser), Robert Poulton (Hermann Ortel), Maxim Mikailov (Hans Schwarz), Graeme Broadbent (Hans Foltz) London Philharmonic Orchestra, The Glyndebourne Chorus, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) & David McVicar (stage director) Lohengrin Klaus Florian Vogt (Lohengrin), Solveig Kringelborn (Elsa), Waltraud Meier (Ortrud), Tom Fox (Telramund), Hans-Peter König (King Heinrich), Roman Trekel (Herald) EuropaChorAkademie Mainz, Chorus of the Opéra national de Lyon & Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Kent Nagano (conductor) & Nikolaus Lehnhoff (stage director) Parsifal Christopher Ventris (Parsifal), Waltraud Meier (Kundry), Matti Salminen (Gurnemanz), Tom Fox (Klingsor), Thomas Hampson (Amfortas), Bjarni Thor Kristinsson (Titurel) Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin & Festspielchor Baden-Baden,, Kent Nagano (conductor) & Nikolaus Lehnhoff (stage director) Tannhäuser Stig Andersen (Tannhäuser), Tina Keberg (Elisabeth), Susanne Resmark (Venus), Tommi Hakala (Wolfram), Stephen Milling (Hermann) Royal Danish Opera, Friedemann Layer (conductor), Kasper Holten (stage director) Tristan und Isolde Robert Gambill (Tristan), Nina Stemme (Isolde), Katarina Karnéus (Brangäne), Bo Skovhus (Kurwenal), René Pape (König Marke), Stephen Gadd (Melot), Timothy Robinson (Hirt/Junger Seemann), Richard Mosley-Evans (Steuermann) London Philharmonic Orchestra, The Glyndebourne Chorus, Jirí Belohlávek (conductor), Nikolaus Lehnhoff (stage director) |
This set presents all of Wagner’s mature operas from seven leading European opera houses recorded during the last decade, featuring many of the most acclaimed Wagner singers of our age, in productions which exult in the force of Ezra Pound’s dictum, ‘Great art is news that stays news’. The directors Harry Kupfer, Nikolaus Lehnhoff, David McVicar and others heed Wagner’s own persuasive plea, ‘Children, make it new’, in stagings employing sophisticated modern technology within grand designs which face up to the breadth of Wagner’s dramatic genius and the social and political implications of his work for us today. Special Wagner anniversary DVD collection presented in luxury packaging. Released at a highly competitive price. Running time: 40 hours approx. Subtitles: Der Fliegende Holländer: EN/FR/DE/ES/NE Der Ring Des Nibelungen: EN/FR/ DE/ES/CA/IT Lohengrin: EN/FR/ DE/ES/IT Tannhäuser: EN/FR/ DE/ES/DA/CH Parsifal: EN/FR/ DE/ES/IT Tristan und Isolde – EN/FR/ DE/ES/IT Sound format: LPCM Stereo & 5.1 DTS (except Der Fliegende Holländer: Dolby Digital 2.0 & 5.1 DTS) | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Wagner: The Great Operas from the Bayreuth FestivalContaining the classic Nilsson/Windgassen/ Böhm complete Ring Cycle and legendary Tristan und Isolde, Sawallisch's famous Tannhäuser, Lohengrin and Der Fliegende Hollander + the Levine Parsifal and Varviso Meistersinger
Wagner: | Das Rheingold Theo Adam (Wotan), Gerd Nienstedt (Donner), Hermin Esser (Froh), Wolfgang Windgassen (Loge), Gustav Neidlinger (Alberich), Erwin Wohlfahrt (Mime), Martti Talvela (Fasolt) Kurt Böhme (Fafner), Annelies Burmeister (Fricka), Anja Silja (Freia), Vera Soukupova (Erda), Dorothea Siebert (Woglinde), Helga Dernesch (Wellgunde), Ruth Hesse (Flosshilde) Karl Böhm Die Walküre James King (Siegmund), Leonie Rysanek (Sieglinde), Gerd Nienstedt (Hunding), Birgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde), Theo Adam (Wotan), Annelies Burmeister (Fricka), Danica Mastilovic (Gerhilde), Helga Dernesch (Ortlinde), Gertraud Hopf (Waltraute), Sieglinde Wagner (Schwertleite), Liane Synek (Helmwige), Annelies Burmeister (Siegrune), Elisabeth Schärtel (Grimgerde), Sona Cervena (Rossweisse) Karl Böhm Siegfried Wolfgang Windgassen (Siegfried), Erwin Wohlfahrt (Mime), Theo Adam (Der Wanderer), Gustav Neidlinge (Alberich), Kurt Böhme (Fafner), Birgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde), Vera Soukupova (Erda), Erika Köth (Waldvogel) Karl Böhm Götterdämmerung Wolfgang Windgassen (Siegfried), Thomas Stewart (Gunther), Gustav Neidlinger (Alberich), Josef Greindl (Hagen), Birgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde), Ludmila Dvoraková (Gutrune), Martha Mödl (Waltraute), Dorothea Siebert (Woglinde), Helga Dernesch (Wellgunde), Sieglinde Wagner (Flosshilde), Marga Höffgen (1. Norn), Annelies Burmeister (2. Norn), Anja Silja (3. Norn) Karl Böhm Tannhäuser Wolfgang Windgassen (Tannhäuser), Victoria de los Angeles (Elisabeth), Grace Bumbry (Venus), Josef Greindl (Hermann), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Wolfram von Eschenbach), Gerhard Stolze (Walther von der Vogelweide), Franz Crass (Biterolf), Georg Paskuda (Heinrich der Schreiber), Theo Adam (Reinmar von Zweter), Elsa Margaretha Gardelli (Hirt) Wolfgang Sawallisch Der fliegende Holländer Franz Crass, Anja Silja, Fritz Uhl, Josef Greindl Wolfgang Sawallisch Tristan und Isolde Wolfgang Windgassen (Tristan), Birgit Nilsson (Isolde), Christa Ludwig (Brangäne), Martti Talvela (King Marke), Eberhard Waechter (Kurwenal), Claude Heater (Melot), Erwin Wohlfahrt (Hirt), Gerd Nienstedt (Steuermann), Peter Schreier (Seemann) Karl Böhm Lohengrin Jess Thomas (Lohengrin), Anja Silja (Elsa), Astrid Varnay (Ortrud), Ramón Vinay (Friedrich von Telramund), Franz Crass (König Heinrich), Tom Krause (Der Heerrufer des Königs) Wolfgang Sawallisch Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Karl Ridderbusch (Hans Sachs), Jean Cox (Walther von Stolzing), Hannelore Bode (Eva), Hans Sotin (Veit Pogner), Klaus Hirte (Sixtus Beckmesser), Frieder Stricker (David), Anna Reynolds (Magdalena), Gerd Nienstedt (Fritz Kothner), Bernd Weikl (Ein Nachtwächter) Silvio Varviso Parsifal Peter Hofmann (Parsifal), Waltraud Meier (Kundry), Hans Sotin (Gurnemanz), Simon Estes (Amfortas), Franz Mazura (Klingsor), Matti Salminen (Titurel) James Levine |
As part of the Wagner year 2013 celebrations Decca Classics are pleased to announce a limited edition re-press of the successful 2008 set of Wagner Operas recorded live at the Bayreuth Festival. Special Limited Edition while stocks last only |
| Decca - 4780279 (CD - 33 discs) Normally: $105.75 Special: $80.00 |
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