Hans Knappertsbusch Conducts Richard Wagner's Der Ring Des Nibelungen [Box Set] more music like this

performed by Alfons Herwig (baritone), Arnold van Mill (bass baritone), Arnold van Mill (bass), Astrid Varnay (soprano), Elisabeth Schartel (vocals), Georgine von Milinkovic (mezzo-soprano), Gerda Lammers (vocals), Gré Brouwenstijn (soprano)
composed by Richard Wagner

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Wagner: Die Walküre (1990) more music like this

performed by Annelies Burmeister (vocals), Birgit Nilsson (vocals), Danica Mastilovic (vocals), Elisabeth Schartel (vocals), Gerd Nienstedt (vocals), Gertraud Hopf (vocals), Helga Dernesch (vocals), James King (vocals), Leonie Rysanek (vocals), Liane Synek (vocals)
composed by Richard Wagner

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Wagner: Die Walküre (2001) more music like this

performed by Annelies Burmeister (vocals), Birgit Nilsson (vocals), Danica Mastilovic (vocals), Elisabeth Schartel (vocals), Gerd Nienstedt (vocals), Gertraud Hopf (vocals), Helga Dernesch (vocals), James King (vocals), Leonie Rysanek (vocals), Liane Synek (vocals)
composed by Richard Wagner

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Wagner: The Best of the Ring (1996) more music like this

performed by Annelies Burmeister (vocals), Birgit Nilsson (vocals), Danica Mastilovic (vocals), Dorothea Siebert (vocals), Elisabeth Schartel (vocals), Erwin Wohlfahrt (vocals), Gerd Nienstedt (bass), Gertraud Hopf (vocals), Gustav Neidlinger (vocals)
composed by Richard Wagner

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Wagner: Choeurs célèbres d'opéras (1998) more music like this

performed by Elisabeth Schartel (mezzo-soprano), Josef Greindl (bass), Bayreuth Festival Choir (choir, chorus), Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, Wilhelm Pitz (conductor)
composed by Richard Wagner

It wasn't often that Wilhelm Pitz, the chorus master at Wagner's Bayreuth, got a shot at making a disc on his own, and this 1958 recording of Wagner choruses is one of his very, very few. But so masterful, so confident, so profoundly sympathetic is his conducting here that even if this one disc was all he'd ever recorded under his own name, Pitz's ...

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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen [Box Set] (1990) more music like this

performed by Anja Silja (vocals), Annelies Burmeister (vocals), Birgit Nilsson (vocals), Danica Mastilovic (vocals), Dorothea Siebert (vocals), Elisabeth Schartel (vocals), Erika Koth (vocals), Erwin Wohlfahrt (vocals), Gerd Nienstedt (vocals), Gertraud Hopf (vocals)
composed by Richard Wagner

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Wagner: Der Fliegende Holländer (2006) more music like this

performed by Astrid Varnay (vocals), Elisabeth Schartel (vocals), Hermann Uhde (vocals), Josef Traxel (vocals), Ludwig Weber (vocals), Rudolf Lustig (vocals), Bayreuth Festival Choir (choir, chorus), Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, Joseph Keilberth (conductor)
composed by Richard Wagner

Is it or isn't it a great Dutchman? It's hard to tell from the reviews. When first released in 1955, this Die fliegende Holländer with Astrid Varnay as Senta, Ludwig Weber as Daland, and Hermann Uhde in the title role plus Joseph Keilberth leading the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra and Chorus was praised for its singing and slighted for its ...

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Wagner: Die Walküre (2006) more music like this

performed by Astrid Varnay (vocals), Elisabeth Schartel (vocals), Georgine von Milinkovic (vocals), Gerda Lammers (vocals), Gré Brouwenstijn (vocals), Hans Hotter (vocals), Herta Wilfert (vocals), Hilde Scheppan (vocals), Jean Watson (vocals), Josef Greindl (vocals)
composed by Richard Wagner

It said something troubling about the state of the classical recording industry in the early twenty first century that the most eagerly anticipated Ring cycle release was not a brand-new digital recording but rather a 50-year-old, previously unreleased recording. Of course, this was not just any 50-year-old Ring: it was the first-ever stereo Ring ...

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Wagner: Das Rheingold (2006) more music like this

performed by Elisabeth Schartel (vocals), Georgine von Milinkovic (vocals), Gustav Neidlinger (vocals), Hans Hotter (vocals), Herta Wilfert (vocals), Josef Greindl (vocals), Josef Traxel (vocals), Jutta Vulpius (vocals), Ludwig Weber (vocals), Maria Graf (vocals)
composed by Richard Wagner

A perfectly acceptable performance, Joseph Keilberth's Das Rheingold at the 1955 Bayreuth Festival would no doubt have satisfied most listeners. But although the performance was taped in stereo by Decca, the recording remained unreleased until 2006 when Testament finally issued it, and by that time finer performances, including Decca's own ...

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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen [Box Set] (1990) more music like this

performed by Anja Silja (vocals), Annelies Burmeister (vocals), Birgit Nilsson (vocals), Danica Mastilovic (vocals), Dorothea Siebert (vocals), Elisabeth Schartel (vocals), Erika Koth (vocals), Erwin Wohlfahrt (vocals), Gerd Nienstedt (vocals), Gertraud Hopf (vocals)
composed by Richard Wagner

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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen [Box Set] (2005) more music like this

performed by Alfons Herwig (vocals), Arnold van Mill (vocals), Astrid Varnay (vocals), Elisabeth Schartel (vocals), Georgine von Milinkovic (vocals), Gerda Lammers (vocals), Gré Brouwenstijn (vocals), Gustav Neidlinger (vocals), Hans Hotter (vocals)
composed by Richard Wagner

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Wagner: Der Fliegende Holländer more music like this

performed by Arnold van Mill (vocals), Astrid Varnay (vocals), Elisabeth Schartel (vocals), George London (vocals), Jean Cox (vocals), Josef Traxel (vocals), Bayreuth Festival Choir (choir, chorus), Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, Joseph Keilberth (conductor)
composed by Richard Wagner

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Wagner: Die Walküre more music like this

performed by Astrid Varnay (vocals), Birgit Nilsson (vocals), Elisabeth Schartel (vocals), Georgine von Milinkovic (vocals), Gisela Litz (vocals), Hans Hotter (vocals), Herta Wilfert (vocals), Hetty Plumacher (vocals), Hilde Scheppan (vocals), Josef Greindl (vocals)
composed by Richard Wagner

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Wagner: Götterdämmerung (2006) more music like this

performed by Astrid Varnay (vocals), Elisabeth Schartel (vocals), Georgine von Milinkovic (vocals), Gré Brouwenstijn (vocals), Gustav Neidlinger (vocals), Hermann Uhde (vocals), Josef Greindl (vocals), Jutta Vulpius (vocals), Maria Graf (vocals)
composed by Richard Wagner

With this Götterdämmerung, English historical label Testamentconcluded its releases of the long un-issued first stereo recording of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen from the 1955 Bayreuth Festival performance. Shelved by Decca when it opted to record the work in the studio with Solti and the Vienna Philharmonic, the release of the first stereo ...

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Wagner: Die fliegende Holländer more music like this

performed by Astrid Varnay (vocals), Elisabeth Schartel (vocals), Hermann Uhde (vocals), Josef Traxel (vocals), Ludwig Weber (vocals), Wolfgang Windgassen (vocals), Bayreuth Festival Choir (choir, chorus), Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, Hans Knappertsbusch (conductor)
composed by Richard Wagner

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Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg more music like this

performed by Donaldson Bell (vocals), Eberhard Wächter (vocals), Egmont Koch (vocals), Elisabeth Grummer (vocals), Elisabeth Schartel (vocals), Eugen Fuchs (vocals), Georg Paskuda (vocals), Gerhard Stolze (vocals), Hans Günther Nöcker (vocals)
composed by Richard Wagner

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Wagner: Das Rheingold more music like this

performed by Elisabeth Schartel (vocals), Erwin Wohlfahrt (vocals), George London (vocals), Gerd Nienstedt (vocals), Heiner Horn (vocals), Helen Donath (vocals), Helen Raab (vocals), Herbert Schachtschneider (vocals), Hermann Winkler (vocals)
composed by Richard Wagner

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Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung (2009) more music like this

performed by Astrid Varnay (vocals), Elisabeth Schartel (vocals), Georgine von Milinkovic (vocals), Gré Brouwenstijn (vocals), Gustav Neidlinger (vocals), Hans Hotter (vocals), Josef Greindl (vocals), Jutta Vulpius (vocals), Maria Graf (vocals)
composed by Richard Wagner

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Zimmermann: Die Soldaten (2007) more music like this

performed by Albert Weikenmeier (tenor), Anton de Ridder (tenor), Camillo Meghor (baritone), Claudio Nicolai (baritone), Edith Gabry (soprano), Elisabeth Schartel (alto), Erik Winkelmann (bass), Gerd Nienstedt (baritone), Heiner Horn (baritone)
composed by Bernd Alois Zimmermann

The conventional wisdom in German-speaking countries (and even beyond) is that Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Die Soldaten is the most important opera to be written since Wozzeck, and based on its topicality, its seriousness, the musical and intellectual rigor of its construction, its dramaturgical innovations, and its visceral emotional impact, it's ...

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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen [Box Set] (2007) more music like this

performed by Astrid Varnay (vocals), Elisabeth Schartel (vocals), Georgine von Milinkovic (vocals), Gerda Lammers (vocals), Gré Brouwenstijn (vocals), Gustav Neidlinger (vocals), Hans Hotter (vocals), Hermann Uhde (vocals), Herta Wilfert (vocals)
composed by Richard Wagner

If Decca had issued this 1955 Bayreuth performance of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen in 1956 instead of shelving it until Testament issued it in 2007, what would have happened? As the first complete Ring cycle, it would no doubt have been greeted with cheers from the composer's many fans, and as a real, if cramped, stereo recording in the early ...

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