An Introduction to Der Ring des Nibelungen (1995) more music like this

performed by Anita Valkki (vocals), Berit Lindholm (vocals), Birgit Nilsson (vocals), Brigitte Fassbaender (vocals), Christa Ludwig (vocals), Claire Watson (vocals), Claudia Hellmann (vocals), Deryck Cooke (speech/speaker/speaking part)
composed by Deryck Cooke

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

performed by Alfred Poell (vocals), Alois Pernerstorfer (vocals), Dagmar Schmedes (vocals), Elisabeth Grummer (vocals), Elsa Cavelti (vocals), Ferdinand Frantz (vocals), Gerda Schreyer (vocals), Gottlob Frick (vocals), Gustav Neidlinger (vocals)
composed by Richard Wagner

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Richard Strauss: Arabella (1992) more music like this

performed by Anton Dermota (vocals), Eberhard Wächter (vocals), Fritz Sengl (vocals), George London (vocals), Harald Proglhoff (vocals), Hilde Gueden (vocals), Ira Malaniuk (vocals), Judith Hellwig (vocals), Karl Kolowratnik (vocals), Lisa della Casa (vocals)
composed by Richard Strauss

How can one decide between Lisa della Casa's many recordings of Strauss' Arabella? After all, she recorded the work twice for major labels -- this 1957 Decca recording with Solti conducting and a 1963 DG recording with Keilberth conducting -- and, beyond that, there are half a dozen or so extant live recordings. But of course, when you want a ...

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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (1996) more music like this

performed by Gerhard Stolze (vocals), Gerhard Unger (vocals), Hans Hotter (vocals), Hermann Uhde (vocals), Ira Malaniuk (vocals), Ludwig Weber (vocals), Martha Mödl (vocals), Ramón Vinay (vocals), Werner Faulhaber (vocals)
composed by Richard Wagner

This classic performance of Tristan und Isolde from the 1952 Bayreuth Festival has seen a number of incarnations on CD. That's not surprising, given the sound quality, which is unusually clean, full, and well-balanced for a live recording of that era, the high standard of the orchestral playing, and the star turns from the principals. Herbert von ...

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Der Ring Des Nibelungen: Great Scenes (1988) more music like this

performed by Berit Lindholm (vocals), Birgit Nilsson (vocals), Brigitte Fassbaender (vocals), Claudia Hellmann (vocals), Eberhard Wächter (vocals), George London (vocals), Gerhard Stolze (vocals), Gottlob Frick (vocals), Hans Hotter (vocals), Helen Watts (vocals)
composed by Richard Wagner

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Der Ring des Nibelungen [Bayreuth 1953] (1997) more music like this

performed by Astrid Varnay (vocals), Bruni Falcon (vocals), Brünnhild Friedland (vocals), Erica Schubert (vocals), Erich Witte (vocals), Erika Zimmermann (vocals), Gerhard Stolze (vocals), Gisela Litz (vocals), Gustav Neidlinger (vocals), Hans Hotter (vocals)
composed by Richard Wagner

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Richard Strauss: Die ägyptische Helena (2003) more music like this

performed by Annelies Kupper (vocals), Bernd Aldenhoff (vocals), Hermann Uhde (vocals), Ira Malaniuk (vocals), Leonie Rysanek (vocals), Richard Holm (vocals), Bavarian State Opera Chorus (choir, chorus), Bavarian State Opera Orchestra, Joseph Keilberth (conductor)
composed by Richard Strauss

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Richard Strauss: Arabella (2005) more music like this

performed by Albrecht Peter (bass), Elfriede Trötschel (soprano), Hermann Uhde (baritone), Ira Malaniuk (mezzo-soprano), Kathe Nentwig (soprano), Lisa della Casa (soprano), Lorenz Fehenberger (tenor), Max Proebstl (bass)
composed by Richard Strauss

By common assent, the great postwar Arabella was Swiss soprano Lisa della Casa. She was everything an Arabella should be: steely willed but also lyrical, golden-toned but also dramatic, passionate but also compassionate. Although she went on to record the role twice for major labels, first with Georg Solti on Decca in 1957 and then with Karl Böhm ...

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Wagner: Die Walküre, Act 3 (1993) more music like this

performed by Astrid Varnay (vocals), Brünnhild Friedland (vocals), Eleanor Lausch (vocals), Elfriede Wild (vocals), Hanna Ludwig (vocals), Hertha Topper (vocals), Ira Malaniuk (vocals), Leonie Rysanek (vocals), Lieselotte Thomamuller (vocals), Ruth Siewert (vocals)
composed by Richard Wagner

For the first postwar Bayreuth Festival in 1951, the Wagner family presented two complete -- and two completely different -- performances of Der Rings des Nibelungen -- one by old-hand Hans Knappertsbusch, he of the lush textures and the flowing tempos, and the other by new boy Herbert von Karajan, he of the strong, sinewy line. While both ...

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Richard Strauss: Arabella (2005) more music like this

performed by Anneliese Rothenberger (vocals), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (vocals), Eta Köhrer (vocals), Georg Stern (vocals), Helmut Melchert (vocals), Ira Malaniuk (vocals), Karl Weber (vocals), Kerstin Meyer (vocals), Kurt Ruesche (vocals), Lisa della Casa (vocals)
composed by Richard Strauss

Stop whatever you're doing and put on the ninth track of the second disc. That's the finale of the third act of Strauss' Arabella from a Salzburg Festival performance on July 29, 1958, and it's the moment when Lisa della Casa's Arabella returns to Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's Mandryka and pledges herself body and soul to him. It's one of the supreme ...

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Mozart: La Clemenza di Tito (2002) more music like this

performed by Carmen Prietto (vocals), Chor des WDR Kölns (vocals), Gerhard Gröschel (vocals), Hilde Zadek (vocals), Ilse Wallenstein (vocals), Ira Malaniuk (vocals), Michel Sénéchal (vocals), Nicolai Gedda (vocals), Peter Offermanns (vocals), Raffaele Arie (vocals)
composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte more music like this

performed by Albrecht Peter (vocals), Anneliese Rothenberger (vocals), Claude Heater (vocals), Erika Koth (vocals), Ferry Gruber (vocals), Fritz Wunderlich (vocals), Gertrud Freedmann (vocals), Hermann Prey (vocals), Hildegard Hillebrecht (vocals)
composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Wagner: Götterdämmerung (Bayreuth Festival 1951) (1999) more music like this

performed by Astrid Varnay (vocals), Bernd Aldenhoff (vocals), Elisabeth Höngen (vocals), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (vocals), Hanna Ludwig (vocals), Heinrich Pflanzl (vocals), Hermann Uhde (vocals), Hertha Topper (vocals), Ira Malaniuk (vocals), Ludwig Weber (vocals)
composed by Richard Wagner

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Mahler: Symphonie No. 8 (1999) more music like this

performed by Giuseppe Zampieri (tenor), Hermann Prey (baritone), Hilde Zadek (soprano), Ira Malaniuk (alto), Lucretia West (alto), Mimi Coertse (soprano), Otto Edelmann (bass), Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde (choir, chorus)
composed by Gustav Mahler

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Borodin: Fürst Igor (2004) more music like this

performed by Boris Christoff (vocals), Eberhard Wächter (vocals), Ennio Buoso (vocals), Erich Majkut (vocals), Giampaolo Corradi (vocals), Giuseppe Taddei (vocals), Giuseppe Zampieri (vocals), Gottlob Frick (vocals), Hans Hotter (vocals), Hilde Zadek (vocals)
composed by Alexander Borodin

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Wagner: Die Walküre, Act 3 (1993) more music like this

performed by Astrid Varnay (vocals), Brünnhild Friedland (vocals), Eleanor Lausch (vocals), Elfriede Wild (vocals), Hanna Ludwig (vocals), Hertha Topper (vocals), Ira Malaniuk (vocals), Leonie Rysanek (vocals), Lieselotte Thomamuller (vocals), Ruth Siewert (vocals)
composed by Richard Wagner

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Wagner: Das Rheingold more music like this

performed by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (vocals), Friedrich Dahlberg (vocals), Heinrich Pflanzl (vocals), Hertha Topper (vocals), Ira Malaniuk (vocals), Lore Wissmann (vocals), Ludwig Weber (vocals), Paul Kuen (vocals), Paula Brivkalne (vocals), Ruth Siewert (vocals)
composed by Richard Wagner

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Great Conductors in the Bicentenary Year 1956 (2006) more music like this

performed by Eli Goren (violin), Emanuel Hurwitz (violin), Erich Majkut (vocals), Ira Malaniuk (vocals), Kurt Böhme (vocals), Peter Graeme (oboe), Rudolf Christ (vocals), Terence Weil (cello), Teresa Stich-Randall (vocals), Vienna Symphony Wind Instruments
composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Released in 2006, that is, 250 years after Mozart's birth, this four-disc set returns to the catalog many of the recordings that made the bicentenary of Mozart's birth in 1956 a reason to celebrate. Perhaps not all the recordings were wholly worth reissuing -- Otto Ackermann's 1953 recording of Symphonies No. 22 and No. 24 with the Amsterdam ...

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Barber: Vanessa (2006) more music like this

performed by Alois Pernerstorfer (vocals), Dimitri Mitropoulos (speech/speaker/speaking part), Eleanor Steber (vocals), Giorgio Tozzi (vocals), Ira Malaniuk (vocals), Nicolai Gedda (vocals), Norman Foster (vocals), Rosalind Elias (vocals)
composed by Samuel Barber, Spoken Word

Vanessa received its premiere at the Met on January 15, 1958, and RCA promptly made a recording of Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting the original cast. The Salzburg Festival presented the European premiere in August of the same year, with Mitropoulos and all of the principals from the original production, except for Ira Malaniuk replacing Regina ...

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Wagner: Götterdämmerung more music like this

performed by Astrid Varnay (vocals), Bernd Aldenhoff (vocals), Elisabeth Höngen (vocals), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (vocals), Hanna Ludwig (vocals), Heinrich Pflanzl (vocals), Hermann Uhde (vocals), Hertha Topper (vocals), Ira Malaniuk (vocals), Ludwig Weber (vocals)
composed by Richard Wagner

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Das Rheingold (1997) more music like this

performed by Claire Watson (vocals), Eberhard Wächter (vocals), George London (vocals), Gustav Neidlinger (vocals), Hetty Plumacher (vocals), Ira Malaniuk (vocals), Jean Madeira (vocals), Kirsten Flagstad (vocals), Kurt Böhme (vocals), Oda Balsborg (vocals)
composed by Richard Wagner

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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (2002) more music like this

performed by Gerhard Stolze (vocals), Gerhard Unger (vocals), Hans Hotter (vocals), Hermann Uhde (vocals), Ira Malaniuk (vocals), Ludwig Weber (vocals), Martha Mödl (vocals), Ramón Vinay (vocals), Werner Faulhaber (vocals), Bayreuth Festival Choir (choir, chorus)
composed by Richard Wagner

This classic performance of Tristan und Isolde from the 1952 Bayreuth Festival has seen a number of incarnations on CD. That's not surprising, given the sound quality, which is unusually clean, full, and well-balanced for a live recording of that era, the high standard of the orchestral playing, and the star turns from the principals. Herbert von ...

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Der Ring des Nibelungen [Bayreuth 1953] (1997) more music like this

performed by Astrid Varnay (vocals), Bruni Falcon (vocals), Brünnhild Friedland (vocals), Erich Witte (vocals), Erika Zimmermann (vocals), Gerhard Stolze (vocals), Gisela Litz (vocals), Gustav Neidlinger (vocals), Hans Hotter (vocals), Hermann Uhde (vocals)
composed by Richard Wagner

Although the big story in Wagner reissues in 2006 was the first commercial release of the 1953 Joseph Keilberth/Bayreuth Ring, the first stereo Ring, the real story is the first great-sounding release of the 1953 Clemens Krauss/Bayreuth Ring, the first and only Ring by one of the greatest of Wagner conductors. One can readily understand the ...

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Richard Strauss: Die ägyptische Helena (2003) more music like this

performed by Annelies Kupper (vocals), Bernd Aldenhoff (vocals), Hermann Uhde (vocals), Ira Malaniuk (vocals), Leonie Rysanek (vocals), Richard Holm (vocals), Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper (choir, chorus), Orchester der Bayerischen Staatsoper
composed by Richard Strauss

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Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (2002) more music like this

performed by Antonio Pirino (tenor), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (vocals), Erich Kunz (vocals), Frederick Dalberg (vocals), Gerhard Unger (vocals), Hans Hopf (vocals), Heinrich Pflanzl (vocals), Ira Malaniuk (vocals), Mario Borriello (baritone), Otto Edelmann (vocals)
composed by Béla Bartók, Richard Wagner

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