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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 - Live at Bayreuth Festspielhaus, Germany, 29th July 1951 Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth Höngen, Hans Hopf, Otto Edelmann / Festspielorchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Wilhelm Furtwängler [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 7/Jan/2022 ] Seventy years ago, on the 29th July 1951, Wilhelm Furtwängler conducted Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 at a concert marking the reopening of the Bayreuth Festival after seven years of silence following the Second World War. |
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (complete opera recorded live in 2008) Franz Hawlata / Klaus Florian Vogt / Michaela Kaune / Norbert Ernst / Bayreuther Festspiele / Sebastian Weigle [ Opus Arte DVD / 2 DVD - released 16/Feb/2011 ] Ostensibly Richard Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg tells a humorous tale about artistically inclined craftsmen. Goldsmith Veit Pogner promises his daughter Eva's hand in marriage to the winner of a song contest, to which three men are... |
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WAGNER
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (complete opera recorded live in 2008) BLU-RAY Franz Hawlata, Klaus Florian Vogt, Michaela Kaune, Norbert Ernst / Bayreuther Festspiele, Sebastian Weigle [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 16/Feb/2011 ] 'A 'Meistersinger' that's on an entirely new Wagnerian scale... It is full of smart ideas and moments of effective theater. ' The Washington Post |
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Wagner, Ri
Lohengrin Grümmer, Gorr, Kónya, Blanc, Crass, Waechter, Chor der Bayreuther Festspiele; Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Lovro [ ORFEO / 3 CD - released 28/Jul/2006 ] |
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BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 d-Moll op. 125 Gundula Janowitz, Grace Bumbry, Jess Thomas, George London, Chor und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Wilhelm Furtwängler [ Orfeo / CD - released 25/Aug/2017 ] The well-known "classical" exception to the canon of ten Wagner works that can be performed on the Green Hill goes back to the master himself: it is of course Beethoven's 9th Symphony. The most famous recording of one of the rare Bayreuth... |
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Beethoven,
Symphonie No. 9 d-Moll op. 125 (Bayreuther Festspiele) Schwarzkopf, Höngen, Hopf, Edelmann, Chor der Bayreuther Festspiele; Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Wilhelm Furtwä [ ORFEO / CD - released 4/Dec/2007 ] |
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BEETHOVEN / BOTTESINI / BRAHMS / WAGNER
Die Walkure (recorded in 2008) Endrik Wottrich, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Albert Dohmen / Bayreuther Festspiele Chorus & Bayreuther Festspiele Orchestra, Christian Thielemann [ Opus Arte / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Jun/2010 ] "the wholeness of music, performance and human joy and suffering leaves the audience deeply moved and passionately enthusiastic." The Stage |
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WAGNER
Siegfried (complete opera recorded in 2008) Gerhard Siegel, Stephen Gould, Albert Dohmen / Bayreuther Festspiele Chorus & Bayreuther Festspiele Orchestra, Christian Thielemann [ Opus Arte / 4 CD Box Set - released 5/Jul/2010 ] " ... there is no doubt that this year's Ring at Bayreuth belongs to… Thielemann... [who] creates a musical experience epic in its scale and inexorable in its apocalyptic, shattering power." The Guardian |
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Lohengrin (complete opera recorded live in 1967) James King, Heather Harper, Donald McIntyre, Grace Hoffman / Chor und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Rudolf Kempe [ Orfeo / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Feb/2019 ] "A must for Kempe collectors and fans of Harper's musicality; less important as a Bayreuth or Lohengrin landmark." Gramophone |
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Wagner, Ri
Tristan und Isolde Vinay, Weber, Mödl, Hotter, Uhde, Stolze, Faulhaber, Unger Chor der Bayreuther Festspiele; Orchester der Bayreuther Fest [ ORFEO / 3 CD - released 18/Aug/2003 ] |