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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | The Essential Wagner
Hildegard Behrens, Jessye Norman, Helga Dernesch, Cheryl Studer, Birgit Nilsson (sopranos), Marjana Lipovsek, Christa Ludwig (mezzos), Siegfried Jerusalem, Jon Vickers, Nicolai Gedda, Ben Heppner (tenors), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Kurt Moll (bass) Bernard Haitink, Klaus Tennstedt, Herbert von Karajan, Andre Cluytens, Sir Adrian Boult The best-loved and most popular works by Richard Wagner, performed by the world’s leading artists, in an accessible format at budget price. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Wagner: Overtures and Orchestral Music
Wagner's opera preludes are actually stage works in orchestral clothing, anticipating as they do all the emotions and dramas of the entire opera. With his illustrative interpretation, Mariss Jansons recognised this dimension, and produced one of the best recordings of his Oslo period. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Father and SonWagner Scenes And Arias
“In the Wagnerian landscape, this is a revelation.” (Opéra) “O'Neill gave a blazing account …, confirming his place in the forefront of today's dramatic tenors.” (The Daily Telegraph) “A true heldentenor voice, with a rich, warm baritone quality in the lower registers combined with a clarion, ringing top.” (The Opera Critic) “To make this CD,” O’Neill said recently, “has been a dream of mine since my first Wagner role, Siegmund in Die Walküre at the Metropolitan Opera, in which I was the cover for the great Placido Domingo. This album surveys Wagner’s mature career from Lohengrin in 1850 through to Parsifal in 1882.” “His tone is more clean-cut [than Domingo's]...silver to Domingo's gold. His delivery...[is] thrilling, and not without real character and verbal sensitivity...He is lavishly supported here by his homeland orchestra..Altogether, this recording, in good sound, is more than promising.” BBC Music Magazine, June 2010 ***** “All credit to O'Neill for being able to make so much of this difficult assignment...in the more robust passages - Siegfried's reaction to the sleeping Brünnhilde, Parsifal remembering Amfortas's suffering - [his] authority and potential are unmistakable.” Gramophone Magazine, August 2010 “This is an exciting calling card from a singer with every chance of a big Wagnerian future.” The Observer, 18th April 2010 “Bleeding chunks of Wagner can make for awkward home listening. But clever programming and the ringing heldentenor of O’Neill make this opera recital less bloody than some...O’Neill wrestles with father figures and magic swords in a voice powerful and noble.” The Times, 1st May 2010 **** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Wagner - Orchestral Music
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| |  | Wagner: Orchestral Favourites
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| |  | Ben Heppner sings Wagner
Ben Heppner – recognized and one of the world’s leading Heldentenors - features a selection of the finest excerpts for tenor voice from Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen. Tracing the life of Wagner’s ultimate hero Siegfried from his father Siegmund (Die Walküre) to Siegfried’s youth (Siegfried) and death (Götterdämmerung), the album features famous excerpts including “Winterstürme wichen dem Wonnemond” and “Notung! Notung! Neidliches Schwert”, as well as orchestral excerpts such as Siegfried’s Funeral March. Supported by the excellent Staatskapelle Dresden and accomplished Wagner expert Peter Schneider, a regular guest conductor at the Bayreuth festival since the early 1980s with more than 100 conducted performances, Ben Heppner’s approach to Siegfried’s life is a supreme musical experience for every Wagner lover. “… over the last 15 years, certain Wagner roles have been the "property" of Ben Heppner – of all things, a Wagner tenor who, in addition to the requisite power, has what might be called a "conventionally beautiful" voice which he actually uses with some discretion and imagination… It's a wonderful piece of singing…” Fanfare “Ben Heppner is not scheduled to make his debut as Wagner's dwarf-beating, anvil-busting hero until 2008 (Aix, under Sir Simon Rattle) so the present disc will have to suffice as a rain check. It does so because the Canadian tenor (whom we never seem to see in the UK) is in prime vocal form and… is in constant search of original, unhackneyed line readings” Gramophone Magazine “He seems to have everything – power, stamina, a bright, truly tenorial timbre… and he has grown up vocally, through Walther and Lohengrin into Tristan, at an intelligent pace, while mixing in some Italian roles to keep the voice supple. Now, on this recital, he tackles Siegfried and Siegmund, from what we hear, he's more than ready for them and Wagnerians should be waiting in line… His combination of lyricism and sheer power are unique today: his cries of “Wälse!” are as brilliant as his “Winterstürme” is caressing and tender. He also never resorts to crooning soft moments; what we hear is a true range of dynamics, in real voice. Here and throughout his diction is impeccable and the forward placement of his voice brings real urgency to his exclamation. On to Siegfried. Not enough praise can be lavished on his Forging Song. I, certainly, have never heard it sung as effortlessly, energetically, expressively, fearlessly, and with such true boyish joy before. He attacks the music and text heroically – this Siegfried seems indomitable – and his tone never falters: it's always big and bright… The “Forest Murmurs” shows us an entirely different side of Siegfried, tender and pensive, and Heppner delivers the solo to us with beautiful tone, enraptured… Heppner's amazement is palpable, and he phrases each mood-change and new sensation with great freshness of tone… Overall, the Staatskapelle Dresden plays with lustre and rhythmic thrust. This is a stunning CD, sure to delight and tease Wagnerians. It gets the highest recommendation.” International Record Review “This is work of a resourceful, imaginative artist…” John W. Freeman, Opera News | 
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| |  | Wagner at the OrganThe Transcriptions of Edwin Lemare
Released for the Wagner bicentenary in May 2013, the first disc by a British organist entirely devoted to Wagner, and a major contribution to the small discography of Wagner transcriptions for a solo instrument. Wagner’s major orchestral works, including the Overture to Mastersingers and Ride of the Valkyries, in virtuoso transcriptions for solo organ by Edwin Lemare. Played by Jonathan Vaughn on the 1911 Harrison and Harrison organ of St Mary Redcliffe in Bristol – regarded as one of the finest high Romantic organs ever built. Jonathan Vaughn is a former organ scholar of St John’s College, Cambridge, and is most often heard accompanying the world-class choir of Wells Cathedral in his capacity as assistant organist of the Cathedral. This debut solo recording from Jonathan Vaughn demonstrates his supreme virtuosity in powerfully dramatic repertoire, as well as the immense range of tone colour of the Redcliffe organ, and will capture the imagination of all lovers of Wagner’s music. |
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| |  | The Britannic Organ, Vol. 5: Richard Wagner on Welte
Michael Welte (player organ), Franz Xaver Franz (organ), Anonymous (player organ), Clarence Eddy (player organ), Samuel Atkinson Baldwin (organ), Harry Goss-Custard (organ), Edwin H. Lemare (player organ), Kurt Grosse (organ), Thaddaus Hofmiller (player organ), Emil Paur (player organ), Edwin H. Lemare (organ), Harry Goss-Custard (player organ), Clarence Eddy (organ), Michael Welte (organ) |
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| |  | Demilitarised Zones: Marches
This re-release on Capriccio contains music picked by HR-brass. As with most brass band ensembles, they stand in the old tradition of music with ‘trumpets and drums’. HR-brass has taken a stand with their own CD on the subject of marches. This disc includes a varied programme from 10 Marches to miss the victory by Mauricio Kagel and demilitarised zone by HK Gruber to Beethoven’s Marschlied from “Egmont” and Wagner’s Funeral March from “Götterdämmerung”. “This brass-band sequence is at once a relishing of the sonorous medium and a sly critique. HR Brass is the brass section of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, fine players alert to sophisticated repertory.” Sunday Times, 28th October 2012 | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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