Browse: Eric Halfvarson (bass)
This page lists all recordings performed by Eric Halfvarson.
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Wagner: Das Rheingold Michael Volle (Wotan), Tomasz Konieczny (Alberich), Burkhard Ulrich (Loge), Elisabeth Kulman (Fricka), Herwig Pecoraro (Mime), Peter Rose (Fasolt), Eric Halfvarson (Fafner), Annette Dasch (Freia), Janina Baechle (Erda), Christian van Horn (Donner), Benjamin Bruns (Froh), Mirella Hagen (Woglinde),...
His conducting is fast, as Wagner preferred and intensely dynamic but he avoids Boulez's glibness, illuminating the drama of the moment in a mercurial, almost Solti-like fashion...he seems to... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Opera
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Wagner: Die Walküre Stuart Skelton (Siegmund), Eric Halfvarson (Hunding), James Rutherford (Wotan), Eva-Maria Westbroek (Sieglinde), Iréne Theorin (Brünnhilde), Elisabeth Kulman (Fricka), Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Sir Simon Rattle
The orchestral playing is predictably excellent—the woodwind solos always have character, and the low brass have an ability to add menace and bite without overpowering the orchestra—but Rattle... — More…
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Record Review, 18th April 2020, Record of the Week
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Verdi: Don Carlos (Five-act French version)
José Van Dam (Philippe II), Roberto Alagna (Don Carlos), Thomas Hampson (Rodrigue), Eric Halfvarson (Le Grand Inquisiteur), Csaba Airizer (Un moine), Karita Mattila (Élisabeth de Valois), Waltraud Meier (La princesse Eboli), Anat Efraty (Thibault), Scot Weir (Le Comte de Lerme) & Donna Brown (Une...
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Verdi: Don Carlos (Five-act French version)
Roberto Alagna (Carlos), Karita Mattila (Elisabeth de Valois), Thomas Hampson (Rodrigue), Jose van Dam (Philippe), Waltraud Meier (Eboli), Eric Halfvarson (Grand Inquisitor)
Paris Theatre du Chatelet, Antonio Pappano
This performance appeared on VHS back in March 1997. On a new, wide-screen television, it makes a far more arresting effect. The action seems to be happening in the room with you.
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Verdi: Don Carlo
Five-act version, sung in Italian
Jonas Kaufmann (Don Carlo), Anja Harteros (Elisabetta), Matti Salminen (Filippo II), Thomas Hampson (Rodrigo), Ekaterina Semenchuk (Eboli), Eric Halfvarson (Il Grande Inquisitore), Robert Lloyd (Un frate)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Antonio Pappano, Peter Stein
With Antonio Pappano in the pit, Jonas Kaufmann and Anja Harteros brought to their interpretations of the leading roles rapturous arcs of phrasing and refulgence of tone that we have not heard... — More…
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Wagner: The Flying Dutchman John Tomlinson (The Dutchman), Nina Stemme (Senta), Eric Halfvarson (Daland), Kim Begley (Erik), Patricia Bardon (Mary), Peter Wedd (Steersman)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, David Parry
Tomlinson, a favourite in the title-role at Bayreuth, now a veteran, is masterful as the Dutchman, exploiting his wide tonal and expressive range, with few signs of wear on the voice...[Stemme... — More…
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Verdi: Don Carlo
Five-act version, sung in Italian
Jonas Kaufmann (Don Carlo), Anja Harteros (Elisabetta), Matti Salminen (Filippo II), Thomas Hampson (Rodrigo), Ekaterina Semenchuk (Eboli), Eric Halfvarson (Il Grande Inquisitore), Robert Lloyd (Un frate)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Antonio Pappano, Peter Stein
With Antonio Pappano in the pit, Jonas Kaufmann and Anja Harteros brought to their interpretations of the leading roles rapturous arcs of phrasing and refulgence of tone that we have not heard... — More…
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One of the finest basso cantantes of this generation, rich-toned yet powerfully characterised, in live excerpts from various Vienna State Opera performances, featuring two of his greatest roles. — More…
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Anna Netrebko: Live at the Metropolitan Opera
Anna Netrebko (soprano), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Andrei), Ekaterina Semenchuk (Sonya), Mariusz Kwiecien (Malatesta), Simone Alaimo (Don Pasquale), Juan Diego Florez (Ernesto), Nancy Fabiola Herrera (Maddalena), Eric Halfvarson (Sparafucile), Roberto Alagna (Romeo), Ildar Abdrazakov (Raimondo), Michael...
there is an alert sense of drama, which is where Netrebko really scores as a singing actress...While her bel canto is judged 'could do better', it's worth considering that, at 40, Netrebko is... — More…
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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen (Highlights)
Matthias Goerne (Wotan), Petra Lang (Brünnhilde - Die Walküre), Heidi Melton (Sieglinde/Brünnhilde - Siegfried), Gun-Brit Barkmin (Brünnhilde - Götterdämmerung), Daniel Brenna (Siegfried - Götterdämmerung), Simon O’Neill (Siegfried - Siegfried); Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden
With excellent sound, singing that is often way above average and a production team that appreciates the stormier elements of Wagner’s humbling rhetoric, we have a Ring that shoots straight from... — More…
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