MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Wagner: The Great Operas - From the Bayreuth Festival
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RICHARD WAGNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Wagner: The Great Operas - From the Bayreuth Festival
Theo Adam, Gerd Nienstedt, James King, Leonie Rysanek, Wolfgang Windgassen, Erwin Wohlfahrt, Birgit Nilsson, Victoria de los Angeles, Christa Ludwig
[ Decca / 33 CD Box Set ]
Release Date: Monday 15 February 2016
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As part of the Wagner year 2013 celebrations Decca Classics released a limited edition re-press of the successful 2008 set of Wagner Operas recorded live at the Bayreuth Festival. Stock is very limited.
"We have Wolfgang Sawallisch to thank for the fact that this recording (Lohengrin) exists at all. It was he who pressured the Philips company to record the series of performances while they were in Bayreuth to record his version of Tannhäuser that same year. As it turned out, this was the final run for Wieland Wagner's legendary production which had been running at the festival since the 1958 premiere. While Philips agreed to undertake the project, the tapes remained in the vaults until 1974, when Philips decided to issue a complete box set of all the Wagner operas "live from Bayreuth" to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the festival in 1975." MusicWeb
NOTE: Booklet has some very minor wear
Tracks:
Das Rheingold
Theo Adam (Wotan), Gerd Nienstedt (Donner), Hermin Esser (Froh)
Die Walküre
James King (Siegmund), Leonie Rysanek (Sieglinde), Gerd Nienstedt (Hunding), Birgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde)
Siegfried
Wolfgang Windgassen (Siegfried), Erwin Wohlfahrt (Mime), Theo Adam (Der Wanderer)
Götterdämmerung
Wolfgang Windgassen (Siegfried), Thomas Stewart (Gunther), Gustav Neidlinger (Alberich)
Tannhäuser
Wolfgang Windgassen (Tannhäuser), Victoria de los Angeles (Elisabeth), Grace Bumbry (Venus)
Der fliegende Holländer
Franz Crass (The Dutchman), Anja Silja (Senta), Fritz Uhl (Erik), Josef Greindl (Daland)
Tristan und Isolde
Wolfgang Windgassen (Tristan), Birgit Nilsson (Isolde), Christa Ludwig (Brangäne), Martti Talvela (King Marke)
Lohengrin
Jess Thomas (Lohengrin), Anja Silja (Elsa), Astrid Varnay (Ortrud), Ramón Vinay (Friedrich von Telramund)
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Karl Ridderbusch (Hans Sachs), Jean Cox (Walther von Stolzing), Hannelore Bode (Eva), Hans Sotin (Veit Pogner)
Parsifal
Peter Hofmann (Parsifal), Waltraud Meier (Kundry), Hans Sotin (Gurnemanz), Simon Estes (Amfortas)
