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Twilight of the Gods: The Essential Wagner Collection : Deutsche Grammophon
If you like your Wagner served up in bleeding chunks or if you're simply in a hurry to hear the tunes, then this compilation is for you. The performances, drawn from the Polygram (mainly Deutsche Grammophon) back catalog, are for the most part authoritative. They feature the likes of Herbert von Karajan, with the Berlin Philharmonic, and Karl Böhm, with the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra (and chorus), in extracts from recordings of complete operas, and conductors Giuseppe Sinopoli, Otto Gerdes, and Antal Doráti in some of the more familiar overtures and preludes. Singing, without which it is impossible to get the full flavor of Wagner's work, is skirted whenever possible: this is an unapologetic tribute to Wagner the orchestral genius. At times the salesmanship is a little overblown--the glitzy packaging includes a cover shot of the helicopters from Apocalypse Now--and the sound, some of it from very good originals, seems to have been juiced with a little added digital reverb, resulting in an overall glassiness. The gaps between tracks are minimized, disco style, so there's no dead air, and the whole thing has an Entertainment Tonight feel to it. Were he around, Wagner would have screamed bloody murder, then happily taken his cut of the action. For today's on-the-go listener, this may well be the most practical way to enjoy Wagner's music, but we won't be happy until it motivates at least one newcomer to seek out a recording of a complete opera. Anyone who does that will find out what "apocalypse" really means. --Ted Libbey - $6.77
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde/Parsifal/Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg/Lohengrin/Tannhäuser
Twilight of the Gods: The Essential Wagner Collection
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde/Parsifal/Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg/Lohengrin/Tannhäuser
Twilight of the Gods: The Essential Wagner Collection
Wagner: The "Ring" Without Words
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde/Parsifal/Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg/Lohengrin/Tannhäuser
Wagner - Der Ring des Nibelungen / Levine, Metropolitan Opera (Complete Ring Cycle) : Deutsche Grammophon
- $79.98
Wagner - Der Ring des Nibelungen (Ring Cycle) / Sir Georg Solti : Decca
Modern storage media (CD/DVD) offer both high fidelity and great reliability in the playback of music. Yet only a bit more than a generation ago, the possibilities inherent in the long-playing record inspired John Culshaw, a young producer for Decca, to attempt the most ambitious recording project ever contemplated up to that time--a complete studio recording of the Ring. Though other Rings were issued after this landmark enterprise, none have equaled the Decca Ring in popularity. There are those who prefer live performances, or who feel that the sound and theatrical effects in this recording are overdone; nonetheless this remains the benchmark Ring, as shown by its seemingly endless rerelease schedule. The Ring effort was high profile at the time and helped nail down Sir Georg Solti's status as a "superstar" conductor and authoritative interpreter of the Wagnerian repertory. Another key contributor to the success of the project was the uniform excellence in the casting. Definitive performances given include Neidlinger's nietzschean Alberich, Stolze's whining Mime, Boehme's rumbling Fafnir, along with Nilsson in her prime-more a force of nature than a human voice. The care lavished on the capture of the music was unmatched at the time of the recording, and still leaves this as one of the best sounding Rings even today, when the oldest part (Rheingold) has reached its 40th anniversary. --Christian C. Rix - $119.83
An Introduction to Der Ring des Nibelungen
Wagner's Ring: Turning the Sky Round
Wagner - Der Ring des Nibelungen / Levine, Metropolitan Opera (Complete Ring Cycle)
Wagner: The Great Operas from the Bayreuth Festival : Decca
A special, limited edition 33-CD box set containing all of Wagner's operas from The Flying Dutchman (1841) to his final masterpiece Parsifal (1882) in performances from the opera house created specifically for the production of Wagner's masterpieces, the Bayreuth Festival Theatre. Landmark performances by some of the greatest Wagnerians can be savored here, among them singers Birgit Nilsson, Leonie Rysanek, Anja Silja, Waltraud Meier, Astrid Varnay, Wolfgang Windgassen, Jess Thomas, James King, Ramon Vinay, Peter Hoffmann, Bernd Weikl, Theo Adam, Karl Ridderbusch, Hans Sotin and Simon Estes. The all-star roster of conductors includes Karl Böhm, James Levine, Wolfgang Sawallisch and Silvio Varviso. RICHARD WAGNER (1813-83) Der fliegende Holländer Anja Silja * Fritz Uhl * Josef Greindl * Franz Crass Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor Tannhäuser Anja Silja * Wolfgang Windgassen * Eberhard Wächter * Josef Greindl Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor Lohengrin Anja Silja * Astrid Varnay * Jess Thomas * Ramon Vinay Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor Tristan und Isolde Birgit Nilsson * Wolfgang Windgassen Karl Böhm, conductor Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Hannelore Bode * Jean Cox * Bernd Weikl * Karl Ridderbusch * Hans Sotin Silvio Varviso, conductor Der Ring des Nibelungen Das Rheingold Annelies Burmeister * Wolfgang Windgassen * Theo Adam * Gustav Neidlinger Karl Böhm, conductor Die Walküre Birgit Nilsson * Leonie Rysanek * James King * Theo Adam Karl Böhm, conductor Siegfried Birgit Nilsson * Wolfgang Windgassen * Theo Adam Karl Böhm, conductor Götterdämmerung Birgit Nilsson * Wolfgang Windgassen * Josef Greindl * Gustav Neidlinger Karl Böhm, conductor Parsifal Waltraud Meier * Peter Hoffmann * Hans Sotin * Simon Estes James Levine, conductor - $50.50
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde/Parsifal/Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg/Lohengrin/Tannhäuser : Seraphim
- $1.45
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