The first release of the first stereo recording of the work, the historical importance of this set of Wagner's Siegfried is undeniable. Recorded by Decca at the 1955 Bayreuth Festival, this performance directed by Joseph Keilberth was to have been issued as part of the first complete Ring cycle. But persuaded that only a studio recording could do ...
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 ...
German composer Hermann Goetz (1840-1876) completed his only opera, based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, in 1872. The opera was popular in its time, but since the beginning of the twentieth century it has received few productions. It continues the tradition of light German operas of the mid-nineteenth century, particularly those of Otto ...
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 ...
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 ...
Cardillac, written in 1926, the first of Hindemith's career-spanning trilogy of operas about the relationship between the artist/intellectual and society (the others being Mathis der Maler (1935), on the life of sixteenth century painter Mathias Grünewald, and Die Harmonie der Welt (1957), based on the life of astronomer Johannes Keppler), is ...
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 ...
Cardillac, written in 1926, the first of Hindemith's career-spanning trilogy of operas about the relationship between the artist/intellectual and society (the others being Mathis der Maler (1935), on the life of sixteenth century painter Mathias Grünewald, and Die Harmonie der Welt (1957), based on the life of astronomer Johannes Keppler), is ...
The two unifying factors on this 2008 Archipel release are the composer Richard Wagner and the conductor Joseph Keilberth. Wagner, of course, was the nineteenth century German composer whose reputation had been soiled by his posthumous association with National Socialism, while Keilberth was the German conductor of the younger generation whose ...
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