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Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer [The Flying Dutchman] (Complete opera recorded in 2021) BLU-RAY & DVD cover
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer [The Flying Dutchman] (Complete opera recorded in 2021) BLU-RAY & DVD
Bayreuth Festival / John Lundgren, Georg Zeppenfeld, Asmik Grigorian, Attilio Glaser / Oksana Lyniv (conductor)
[ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc/DVD - due 20/Apr/2024 ]
"Lyniv's conducting is superb in terms of pacing and tonal weight and balance...Grigorian and Zeppenfeld sing as fluently and fearlessly as they act." Gramophone Magazine September 2022 Blu-ray of the Month
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (complete opera recorded live in 2008) BLU-RAY cover
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (complete opera recorded live in 2008) BLU-RAY
Bayreuth Festival / Michael Volle, Klaus Florian Vogt, Johannes Martin Kränzle, Anne Schwanewilms / Philippe Jordan (cond)
[ Deutsche Blu-ray / 2 Blu-ray - released 5/Dec/2019 ]
"The performances of the cast are of a high standard dramatically and mostly musically. Volle now paces himself well and Lehmkuhl is a magical and unclichéd Magdalene." Gramophone
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (complete opera recorded live in 2009) BLU-RAY cover
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (complete opera recorded live in 2009) BLU-RAY
Bayreuth Festival / Robert Dean Smith, Robert Holl, Irene Theorin, Jukka Rasilainen / Peter Schneider (cond)
[ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Feb/2010 ]
G - 'In Tristan the standard of conducting and singing is high. Peter Schneider draws seamless playing from the orchestra, contouring Wagner's long arcs of sound as only someone of his experience can do.' The Financial Times
Wagner: Die Walküre (complete opera recorded in 2010) BLU-RAY cover
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Die Walküre (complete opera recorded in 2010) BLU-RAY
Bayreuth Festival / Johan Botha, Edith Haller, Linda Watson, Albert Dohmen / Christian Thielemann (cond)
[ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Aug/2011 ]
"[Botha] is outstanding throughout as Siegmund...Dorst's production, and this filming of it, are at their best in the latter stages of Act 3 and the result is a powerful and affecting account of one of The Ring's greatest episodes" (Gramophone)
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (complete opera recorded in 1983) cover
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RICHARD WAGNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (complete opera recorded in 1983)
Bayreuth Festival / Rene Kollo, Matti Salminen, Johanna Meier, Hermann Becht / Daniel Barenboim (cond)
[ Deutsche Grammophon / Unitel DVD / 2 DVD - released 25/Jun/2007 ]
Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's celebrated Bayreuth production is filmed on the Festspielhaus stage with six cameras and in digital sound to recreate the unique intensity of a live performance in studio quality.
Wagner: Die Walkure (complete opera) (Recorded in stereo live at the 1955 Bayreuth Festival) cover
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2-4 weeks
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Die Walkure (complete opera) (Recorded in stereo live at the 1955 Bayreuth Festival)
Astrid Varnay / Gre Brouwenstijn / Hans Hotter / Ramon Vinay / Bayreuth Festival Orchestra / Joseph Keilberth
[ Testament / 4 CD Box Set - released 23/Jun/2006 ]
"The second instalment of what is proving to be a definitive Ring...Hans Hotter is the crowning glory of this instalment, fresher-voiced than for Solti. But there isn't a weak link in a cast that we can only dream of today. As for Joseph Keilberth,...
Symphony No 9 'Choral' (rec 1954) cover
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2-4 weeks
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No 9 'Choral' (rec 1954)
Gre Brouwenstijn (soprano), Ira Malaniuk (alto), Wolfgang Windgassen (tenor) & Ludwig Weber (bass) / Bayreuth Festival Chorus, Wilhelm Furtwängler
[ Orfeo / CD - released 1/Sep/2013 ]
"Orfeo offers the best sound yet for this performance, even though the vocal soloists remain painfully spotlit. Furtwängler conducts with spacious grandeur and elemental drive." (BBC Music)
Wagner: Lohengrin (complete opera recorded at the Bayreuth Festival, August 2011 BLU-RAY cover
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2-4 weeks
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Lohengrin (complete opera recorded at the Bayreuth Festival, August 2011 BLU-RAY
Bayreuth Festival / Klaus Florian Vogt, Annette Dasch, Petra Lang, Jukka Rasilainen / Andris Nelsons (cond)
[ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jan/2017 ]
Hans Neuenfels's striking new production of Wagner's fairytale opera gives this medieval story of doomed love and sorcery the Bayreuth treatment. As controversial as it is stimulating, this production was the talk of the 2011 Festival, and showcases...
Wagner: Tannhauser (complete opera recorded live in 2019) cover
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Tannhauser (complete opera recorded live in 2019)
Bayreuth Festival / Stephen Gould, Lise Davidsen, Elena Zhidkova, Markus Eiche / Valery Gergiev (cond)
[ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / 2 DVD - released 15/May/2020 ]
"In his Bayreuth debut, Valery Gergiev conducts with such verve that at multiple turns it was like hearing the score anew." Limelight
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (complete opera recorded live in 2008) cover
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (complete opera recorded live in 2008)
Bayreuth Festival / Michael Volle, Klaus Florian Vogt, Johannes Martin Kränzle, Anne Schwanewilms / Philippe Jordan (cond)
[ Deutsche DVD / 2 DVD - released 20/Jun/2019 ]
"The performances of the cast are of a high standard dramatically and mostly musically. Volle now paces himself well and Lehmkuhl is a magical and unclichéd Magdalene." Gramophone
Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer [The Flying Dutchman] (Complete opera recorded in 2013) cover
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2-4 weeks
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer [The Flying Dutchman] (Complete opera recorded in 2013)
Bayreuth Festival / Samuel Youn, Franz-Josef Selig, Ricarda Merbeth / Christian Thielemann (conductor)
[ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Aug/2014 ]
2013's revival of Jan Philipp Gloger's controversial 2012 production was greeted (as so often in Bayreuth) with huge acclaim. He translates the tale of the Dutchman, whose travails can only be redeemed through the unconditional love of a woman...
Der fliegende Holländer [The Flying Dutchman] (Complete opera recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY cover
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2-4 weeks
WAGNER
Der fliegende Holländer [The Flying Dutchman] (Complete opera recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY
Bayreuth Festival / Samuel Youn, Franz-Josef Selig, Ricarda Merbeth / Christian Thielemann (conductor)
[ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Aug/2014 ]
2013's revival of Jan Philipp Gloger's controversial 2012 production was greeted (as so often in Bayreuth) with huge acclaim. He translates the tale of the Dutchman, whose travails can only be redeemed through the unconditional love of a woman...
Der Ring des Nibelungen - Great Scenes cover
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2-4 weeks
WAGNER
Der Ring des Nibelungen - Great Scenes
Arnold Bezuyen, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Michelle Breedt, Albert Dohmen, Stephen Gould / Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, Christian Thielemann
[ Opus Arte CD / 2 CD - released 15/Dec/2013 ]
Christian Thielemann leads a performance of masterful pacing and burning conviction that features richly detailed interpretations from many of today's most experienced interpreters of their complex and glorious roles.
Symphony No. 9 (recorded in 1951) cover
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2-4 weeks
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 9 (recorded in 1951)
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf / Hans Hopf / Bayreuth Festival Chorus / Bayreuth Festival Orchestra / Wihelm Furtwangler
[ Naxos Historical / CD - released 4/Dec/2006 ]
"The pure freshness of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf's voice soars above the ensemble, her ringing tones expressing the spiritual quality of the symphony. Furtwängler emphasises the symphony's warmth and humanity, and its powerful sense of...
Siegfried (complete opera) (Recorded in stereo live at the 1955 Bayreuth Festival) cover
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2-4 weeks
WAGNER
Siegfried (complete opera) (Recorded in stereo live at the 1955 Bayreuth Festival)
Hans Hotter, Astrid Varnay, Wolfgang Windgassen, Gustav Neidlinger / Bayreuth Festival Orchestra / Joseph Keilberth
[ Testament / 4 CD - released 1/Mar/2006 ]
GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD WINNER 2006: Historic - "I keep relistening to Keilberth's forging scene closing Act I. Keilberth naturally unfolds the lyrical strength of full rich Bayreuth strings, basses and timps deepen and gather force, Mime animates...
Der Fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman recorded in 1955) cover
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2-4 weeks
WAGNER
Der Fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman recorded in 1955)
Hermann Uhde / Ludwig Weber / Astrid Varnay / Rudolf Lustig / Bayreuth Festival Chorus & Orchestra / Joseph Keilberth
[ Testament / 2 CD - released 24/Aug/2006 ]
1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1801-1850) - For this 1955 production Wolfgang and his conductors chose to perform the so-called 'one-act' version of the opera, incorporating the modifications that Wagner made to the score...
Gotterdammerung (complete opera) [Recorded in stereo live at the 1955 Bayreuth Festival] cover
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2-4 weeks
WAGNER
Gotterdammerung (complete opera) [Recorded in stereo live at the 1955 Bayreuth Festival]
Jutta Vulpius, Elisabeth Schartel, Maria Graf, Wolfgang Windgassen, Georgine von Milinkovic / Bayreuth Festival Chorus & Orchestra / Joseph Keilberth
[ Testament / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Feb/2007 ]
"Windgassen may be more vocally secure for Solti but nowhere else is he so tender, so moving as here. Josef Greindl is a far more saturnine, charismatic Hagen here than elsewhere. But it is Astrid Varnay who is the great revelation." Recording of...
Gotterdammerung (complete opera) (Recorded in stereo live at the 1955 Bayreuth Festival) [second cycle] cover
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2-4 weeks
WAGNER
Gotterdammerung (complete opera) (Recorded in stereo live at the 1955 Bayreuth Festival) [second cycle]
Martha Madl · Hans Hotter · Gra Brouwenstijn · Wolfgang Windgassen / Bayreuth Festival Chorus & Orchestra / Joseph Keilberth
[ Testament / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/Feb/2009 ]
Partly for security, partly out of interest, Decca's engineers under Peter Andry also recorded the second cycle, from which this first-ever release of Götterdämmerung is drawn, providing a chance to appreciate the depth of New Bayreuth's casting...
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O & Chorus Bayreuth Festival
Wagner: Tristan Und Isolde
[ Naxos Historical / 3 CD - released 2/Jun/2003 ]
Lohengrin (Complete Opera recorded in 1982) cover
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2-4 weeks
WAGNER
Lohengrin (Complete Opera recorded in 1982)
Peter Hofmann, Karan Armstrong, Elizabeth Connell / Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra, Woldemar Nelsson
[ Sony Opera House / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2011 ]
"Where this version is admirable is in its orchestra and chorus. Richly singing tone from the strings in the Prelude and many other places is seconded by wind and brass whose quality can be heard more easily than in the earlier Bayreuth sets, and the...