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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | German Brass celebrating Wagner
Michael Popp (conductor and various instruments) German Brass With Richard Wagner's bicentenary coming up on May 22, there are all kinds of sounds in the air and words to be read about the great Romantic music dramatist. But where among all this Wagneriana are we to find the truly original messages? Some of them are to be encountered right here, because when GERMAN BRASS tackles Wagner, expectations are always high. The brass ensemble is justly regarded as one of the world's finest, consisting of the best musicians from Germany's leading orchestras (including Bayreuth's!), so this is a special event, music made, played and recorded with total commitment.We still come back to the question: Wagner for brass – how is that going to sound? It seems a bold idea at first sight, but as soon as you hear it, it turns out to be a stroke of genius: Wagner was no stranger to fullbodied brass sound, and the musicians of GERMAN BRASS succeed brilliantly in coaxing the complex timbres of Wagner's mixed sounds from their instruments. This is due as much to their virtuosity as to the creative arrangements of their artistic director Matthias Höfs. The verve of the "Ride of the Valkyries" will astound the listener as much as the alternating blocks of sound at the start of the "Pilgrims' Chorus" from Tannhäuser, where original and arrangement seem to keep changing places. Familiar passages come over as well known and yet subtly different – a stimulating experience! | 
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| |  | 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. | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Oskar Fried, Volume IV1924/27 DG 78rpm recordings, 2009 digital restorations
The widely awaited first CD transfer of these recordings (of which the Bruckner 7th was the work's recording premiere). Previous volumes were acclaimed in Gramophone, ARG, Fanfare, Musica, Diapason, etc. and Volume I won the coveted German Record Critics Association's quarterly prize for best historical recording. | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Freude Schöner Gotterfunken - Great Choruses
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| |  | Great Opera Choruses
Beethoven: | O welche Lust! In freier Luft den Atem leicht zu heben! (from Fidelio) | Bellini: | Squilla il bronzo del dio...Guerra, guerra (from Norma) | Berlioz: | Dieux protecteurs (from Les Troyens) | Bizet: | Votre toast je peux vous le rendre 'Toreador Song' (from Carmen) | Boito: | Ave, Signor degli angeli e dei santi! (from Mefistofele) | Donizetti: | Per te d'immenso giubilo (from Lucia di Lammermoor) | Gounod: | Faust : Marthe! - Dieu soit loué! C'est vous!...Déposons nos | Leoncavallo: | I zampognari!...Don din don (from I Pagliacci) | Mascagni: | Regina coeli laetare (from Cavalleria Rusticana) | Mozart: | O Isis und Osiris, welche Wonne! (from Die Zauberflöte) | Mussorgsky: | Boris Godunov: Coronation Scene | Nicolai, C O: | Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor: Mondchor ('O süßer Mond') | Puccini: | Humming Chorus (from Madama Butterfly) | Tchaikovsky: | Waltz from Eugene Onegin, Op. 24 | Verdi: | Anvil Chorus (from Il Trovatore) Squilli, echeggi la tromba (from Il Trovatore) Gli arredi festivi (from Nabucco) Va, pensiero (from Nabucco) O signore, dal tetto natio (from I Lombardi) Gloria all'Egitto (from Aida) Giuramento (from La battaglia di Legnano) Urli, rapine (from Attila) Fuoco di gioia (from Otello) Patria oppressa (from Macbeth) Di Madride noi siam mattadori (from La Traviata) Spuntato ecco il di d'esultanza (from Don Carlo) | Wagner: | Summ' und brumm', du gutes Rädchen 'Spinning Chorus' (from Der fliegende Holländer) Steuermann, laß die Wacht! (from Der fliegende Holländer) Begluckt darf nun dich 'Pilgrims' Chorus' (from Tannhauser) Bridal Chorus 'Treulich geführt' (from Lohengrin) | Weber: | Was gleicht wohl auf Erden dem Jägervergnügen? (from Der Freischütz) |
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| |  | German Operatic Choruses
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| |  | Three Great Danish Woman Pianists
Beethoven: | Für Elise (Bagatelle in A minor, WoO59) Piano Sonata No. 7 in D major, Op. 10, No. 3 (Menuetto) Piano Sonata No. 26 in E flat major, Op. 81a 'Les Adieux' Ecossaise in E flat major, WoO 86 | Brahms: | Rhapsody in G minor, Op. 79 No. 2 | Chopin: | Nocturne No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9 No. 2 Waltz No. 7 in C sharp minor, Op. 64 No. 2 France Ellegaard Berceuse in D flat major, Op. 57 Polonaise No. 3 in A major, Op. 40 No. 1 'Military' Waltz No. 7 in C sharp minor, Op. 64 No. 2 Impromptu No. 4 in C sharp minor, Op. 66 'Fantaisie-Impromptu' Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35 'Marche funèbre' Waltz No. 7 in C sharp minor, Op. 64 No. 2 Galina Werschenska | Dohnányi: | Rhapsody No. 3 in C major, Op. 11 No. 3 | Falla: | Ritual Fire Dance (from El amor brujo) | Franck, C: | Prélude, Choral et Fugue, M21 | Grieg: | Norwegian Bridal Procession, Op. 19, No. 2 | Hummel, J: | Rondo for piano in E flat major, Op. 11 | Liszt: | Hungarian Rhapsody, S244 No. 2 in C sharp minor Liebestraum, S541 No. 3 (Nocturne in A flat major) Grande Étude de Paganini, S. 141 No. 3 'La Campanella' | Mozart: | Piano Sonata No. 4 in E flat major K282 | Prokofiev: | Prelude in C major, Op. 12 No. 7 The Love for Three Oranges: March | Rachmaninov: | Prelude Op. 23 No. 7 in C minor | Scarlatti, D: | Pastorale | Scriabin: | Prelude, Op. 11 No. 10 in C sharp minor | Wagner: | Summ' und brumm', du gutes Rädchen 'Spinning Chorus' (from Der fliegende Holländer) arr. for piano by Liszt |
Johanne Stockmarr, France Ellegaard and Galina Werschenska | | | (also available to download from $21.00) | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | In Concert: Kirsten FlagstadExcerpts from Wagner Operas (1949)
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| |  | Semperoper Edition, Vol. 3 (1948-1956)
Dora Zschille (soprano), Brunnhild Friedland (soprano), Helmut Eyle (bass), Kurt Rehm (baritone), Hans Kramer (bass), Ernst Gruber (tenor), Bernd Aldenhoff (tenor), Margarete Baumer (soprano), Karl Paul (baritone), Hans Hopf (tenor), Emilie Walter-Sachs (soprano), Josef Herrmann (baritone), Christel Goltz (soprano), Kurt Bohme (bass), Arno Schellenberg (baritone), Joachim Sattler (tenor) Dresden Staatskapelle, Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Radio Chorus, Dresden State Opera Chorus, Grosses Rundfunkorchester Dresden, Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, Joseph Keilberth, Gerhard Pfluger, Rolf Kleinert, Rudolf Kempe, Kurt Striegler, Hans-Hendrik Wehding, Gerhard Wiesenhutter, Walter Stoschek | |
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| |  | Great Wagner Singers
Wagner: | Die Frist ist um (from Der fliegende Holländer) Hans Hotter (bass) Mit Gewitter und Sturm (from Der Fliegende Hollander) Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra Summ' und brumm', du gutes Rädchen 'Spinning Chorus' (from Der fliegende Holländer) Gwyneth Jones (soprano), Sieglinde Wagner (contralto) Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra Johohoe! Traft ihr das Schiff im Meere an 'Senta's Ballad' (from Der fliegende Holländer) Gwyneth Jones (soprano) Steuermann, laß die Wacht! (from Der fliegende Holländer) Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra Gerechter Gott! (from Rienzi) Gundula Janowitz (soprano) Allmächt'ger Vater, blick herab! (from Rienzi) Lauritz Melchior (tenor) Dich, teure Halle (from Tannhauser) Leonie Rysanek (soprano) O Fürstin...Doch welch ein seltsam (from Tannhäuser) Annelies Kupper (mezzo), Wolfgang Windgassen (tenor) Freudig begrussen wir 'Entrance of the Guests' (from Tannhauser) Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra Gar viel und schön (from Tannhäuser) Josef Greindl (bass) Begluckt darf nun dich 'Pilgrims' Chorus' (from Tannhauser) Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra Heil! Der Gnade Wunder, Heil (from Tannhäuser) Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra Allmächt’ge Jungfrau! (from Tannhäuser) Gundula Janowitz (soprano) Wie Todesahnung...O du, mein holder Abendstern (from Tannhäuser) Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) Inbrunst im Herzen (from Tannhäuser) Lauritz Melchior (tenor) Einsam in trüben Tagen (from Lohengrin) Gundula Janowitz (soprano) Seht, seht! Welch ein seltsam Wunder! (from Lohengrin) Gundula Janowitz (soprano) Euch Lüften, die mein Klagen (from Lohengrin) Gundula Janowitz (soprano) Gesegnet soll sie schreiten (from Lohengrin) Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra Bridal Chorus 'Treulich geführt' (from Lohengrin) Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra In fernem Land (from Lohengrin) Leo Slezak (tenor) Weh, ach wehe! Dies zu dulden! (from Tristan und Isolde) Astrid Varnay (soprano), Hertha Töpper (mezzo) Tatest du's wirklich? (from Tristan and Isolde) Kim Borg (bass) Mild und leise 'Isolde's Liebestod' (from Tristan und Isolde) Birgit Nilsson (soprano) Weiche, Wotan, weiche! (from Das Rheingold) Karin Branzell (contralto) Abendlich strahlt der Sonne Auge (from Das Rheingold) Josef von Manowarda (bass-baritone) Die Walküre: Act 1 Maria Müller (soprano), Wolfgang Windgassen (tenor), Josef Greindl (bass) War es so schmählich, was ich verbrach? (from Die Walküre) Frida Leider (soprano), Hans Hotter (bass) Leb wohl, du kühnes, herrliches Kind! (from Die Walküre) Hans Hotter (bass) Siegmund! Sieh' auf mich! (from Die Walküre) Kirsten Flagstad (soprano), Set Svanholm (tenor) Hoho! Hoho! Hohei! Schmiede, mein Hammer, ein hartes Schwert! (from Siegfried) Lauritz Melchior (tenor) Dass der mein Vater nicht ist (from Siegfried) Max Lorenz (tenor) Siegfried: Waldweben Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele Wache, Wala! Wala! Erwach! (from Siegfried) Josef von Manowarda (bass-baritone) Heil dir, Sonne! (from Siegfried) Frida Leider (soprano), Fritz Soot (tenor) Zu neuen Taten, teurer Helde (from Götterdämmerung) Astrid Varnay (soprano), Wolfgang Windgassen (tenor) Hier sitz ich zur Wacht (from Götterdämmerung) Josef Greindl (bass) Hoiho! Hoihohoho! (from Götterdämmerung) Josef Greindl (bass) Mime hiess ein mürrischer Zwerg (from Götterdammerung) Max Lorenz (tenor) Brünnhilde, heilige Braut! (from Götterdammerung) Wolfgang Windgassen (tenor) Starke Scheite schichtet mir dort 'Brünnhilde's Immolation Scene' (from Götterdämmerung) Astrid Varnay (soprano) Das schöne Fest, Johannistag (from Die Meistersinger) Josef Greindl (bass) Fanget an! (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) Jess Thomas (tenor) Was duftet doch der Flieder (from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) Friedrich Schorr (bass-baritone) Jerum! Jerum! (from Die Meistersinger) Friedrich Schorr (bass-baritone) Wach' auf! Es nahet gen dem Tag (from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra Morgenlich leuchtend im rosigen Schein 'Prize Song' (from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) Jess Thomas (tenor) Verachtet mir die Meister nicht (from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) Theodor Scheidl (bass-baritone) Zum letzten Liebesmahle gerüstet Tag für Tag (from Parsifal) Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra Des Weihgefässes göttlicher Gehalt (from Parsifal) Theodor Scheidl (bass-baritone) Ich sah das Kind an seiner Mutter Brust (from Parsifal) Frida Leider (soprano) Amfortas! Die Wunde! (from Parsifal) Lauritz Melchior (tenor) Das ist Karfreitagszauber, Herr! (from Parsifal) Josef Greindl (bass) Ja, wehe! Wehe! Weh über mich! (from Parsifal) James King (tenor), Thomas Stewart (bass-baritone) Nur eine Waffe taugt (from Parsifal) James King (tenor), Thomas Stewart (bass-baritone) Höchsten Heiles Wunder! Erlösung dem Erlöser! (from Parsifal) James King (tenor), Thomas Stewart (bass-baritone) Der Engel (No. 1 from Wesendonck-Lieder) Astrid Varnay (soprano) Stehe still! (No. 2 from Wesendonck-Lieder) Astrid Varnay (soprano) Im Treibhaus (No. 3 from Wesendonck-Lieder) Astrid Varnay (soprano) Schmerzen (No. 4 from Wesendonck-Lieder) Lauritz Melchior (tenor) Träume (No. 5 from Wesendonck-Lieder) Lauritz Melchior (tenor) |
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