Wagner reviews
Beethoven • Verdi • Wagner (Lise Davidsen)
Im Abendrot (Matthias Goerne/Seong-Jin Cho)
Bruckner: Symphony No. 2, etc (Gewandhausorchester/Nelsons)
Visions of Childhood
Wagner: Lohengrin
Lento Religioso
Organ Prom
Träume (Wagner Arias)
Wagner: Das Rheingold
Wagner: Lohengrin
Wagner: Das Rheingold
Bruckner: Symphony No. 4; Wagner: Lohengrin – Prelude
Wagner: Die Walküre (ROH/Pappano)
An iconic staging of Wagner’s Die Walküre
Mahler: Symphony No. 1; plus Wagner & Strauss Orchestral Works
Liszt: Prometheus/Wagner: Siegfried
Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Igor Levit: Life
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
The Wagner Project
Die Walküre performed at Salzburg Festival 2017
This Salzburg production was billed as a recreation of Herbert von Karajan’s classic 1967 staging, but on this DVD ‘recreation’ acquires inverted commas – advisedly, because it’s nothing of the sort.
Wagner's Parsifal conducted by Hartmut Haenchen with the Bavarian Festival Orchestra and Choir
This production from last year’s Bayreuth Festival was involved in even more controversy than that enterprise usually generates, with a replaced director, a conductor who took over in the last weeks of rehearsal, and police on guard round the Festspielhaus in case Muslims were upset. They might easily have been, but so might adherents of other religions. Wagner’s music is of course intact here, but very little else is. |
Jun Märkl conducts Wagner's Concert Overtures Nos 1 & 2 and other works for orchestra
Wagner’s earliest works, once derided – not least by himself – have recently attracted more serious attention. Certainly they reveal an unusually promising composer, already above the ordinary for his day and with occasional startling flashes of the genius to come. Jun Märkl and the excellent MDR Leipzig Radio players, rather brightly recorded, provide a lively selection.
Tenor Ticho Parly sings extracts from operas by Wagner and Beethoven
In his career Danish-American Parly won more plaudits for his acting and appearance than his vibrant but sinewy voice. Yet in this programme he makes many modern heldentenors sound mediocre. Michael Scott Rohan |