Wagner : Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90
Wolfgang Sawallisch
Full Operas - Released May 18, 2018 | Orfeo
Wagner: Lohengrin, WWV 75 (Live)
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra
Opera - Released November 3, 2017 | Orfeo
J.S. Bach: Johannes-Passion
Philippe Herreweghe
Classical - Released July 31, 2007 | harmonia mundi
Wagner: Siegfried, WWV 86C
Simon O´Neill
Opera - Released September 22, 2023 | BR-Klassik
Wagner: Parsifal
Evgeny Nikitin
Opera - Released February 1, 2012 | PentaTone
Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70 (Live) [Orfeo d'Or]
Bayreuther Festspielorchester
Opera - Released January 1, 1964 | Orfeo
Wagner : Parsifal
Herbert von Karajan
Classical - Released January 1, 1981 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra
Classical - Released June 30, 2023 | Decca Music Group Ltd.
Wagner: Parsifal by Hans Knappertsbusch
Hans Knappertsbusch
Opera - Released February 8, 2023 | Alexandre Bak - Classical Music Reference Recording
Encounter
Igor Levit
Classical - Released September 11, 2020 | Sony Classical
The Unreleased Masters
Jessye Norman
Classical - Released March 24, 2023 | Decca Music Group Ltd.
Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244 by Otto Klemperer
Otto Klemperer
Classical - Released March 4, 2023 | Alexandre Bak - Classical Music Reference Recording
Bach : The Complete Organ Works
André Isoir
Classical - Released January 1, 1991 | La Dolce Volta
Delius: A Mass of Life
Frederick Delius
Classical - Released November 24, 2023 | Lawo Classics
Bach : St Matthew Passion (Matthäus-Passion)
René Jacobs
Masses, Passions, Requiems - Released October 7, 2013 | harmonia mundi
Wagner: Lohengrin, WWV 75 (Live)
Bayreuther Festspielorchester
Opera - Released July 28, 2006 | Orfeo
Mahler Songs
Joseph Middleton
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released July 28, 2023 | Signum Records
The art song might seem to present Mahler's style in miniature, but actually song pervaded his output. Some of the vocal movements in his symphonies use his songs directly, and beyond this, his interests in and treatments of German poetry set the tone for a major strand of his work, in general. Consider the grim Kindertotenlieder ("Songs on the Deaths of Children"), setting texts by Friedrich Rückert. Mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly, recently recovered from cancer surgery when this recording was made in 2021, seems to find resonance in these, and her voice, always persuasive in Mahler, has a rather uncannily fragile quality in these quiet songs. In the bigger songs from the Rückert-Lieder and Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen sets, Connolly has to apply a lot of vibrato by this time; listeners' reaction to this will vary, but she is nowhere less than emotionally honest and engaged here. Sample Wenn dein Mütterlein from the Kindertotenlieder, truly heartbreaking in Connolly's hands. Joseph Middleton, always a top-notch accompanist, outdoes himself here, introducing hints of the hidden psychological currents that make these songs so absorbing. A fine entry in Connolly's late-career turn toward Mahler specialization, this made classical best-seller lists in the summer of 2023.© James Manheim /TiVo
Schumann: Genoveva
Kurt Masur
Opera - Released May 1, 2015 | Brilliant Classics
J.S. Bach: The Complete Works for Keyboard, Vol. 1 - The Young Heir - Le Jeune héritier
Benjamin Alard
Classical - Released December 15, 2017 | harmonia mundi