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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,... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Four (4) Last Songs (with Wagner-Extracts) (Rec 1950) Kirsten Flagstad (sop) / Philharmonia Orchestra/Wilhelm FurtwANngler [ Testament / CD - released 1/May/2007 ] "Flagstad and Furtwängler caught on the wing - this is a real treasure...not least historically as the world premiere performance. Flagstad and (especially) Furtwängler seem to find the very pulse of life here, even as it unravels as death draws... |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Der Fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman recorded in 1968 at the Royal Festival Hall, London) Theo Adam / Anja Silja / Martti Talvela / James King / BBC Chorus & New Philharmonia Orchestra / Otto Klemperer [ Testament / 2 CD Box Set - released 20/Sep/2008 ] Recording of the Month Gramophone Magazine October 2008 |