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Wagner: Das Rheingold

Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra

Classical - Released October 14, 1997 | Decca Music Group Ltd.

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Wagner: Ring

Wiener Staatsoper

Classical - Released January 1, 2013 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Wagner: Das Rheingold, WWV 86A (Live)

Sir Simon Rattle

Classical - Released September 25, 2015 | BR-Klassik

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Simon Rattle's 2015 recording on BR Klassik of Richard Wagner's Das Rheingold has much of the intensity and drama of a fully staged production, though it was patched together from two concert performances and benefits from studio-quality recording and editing. One senses that Rattle wished to make a definitive recording, as free as possible from musical blemishes and stage mishaps, so every precaution was taken to capture all the vocal parts and the orchestral accompaniment carefully and cleanly, without losing any of the excitement of live performance. This recording features baritone Michael Volle as Wotan, bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny as Alberich, and mezzo-soprano Elisabeth Kulman as Fricka, with a supporting cast that is vocally strong and well-rehearsed, even though many of the singers are not famous outside Germany. The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra is dynamic and powerful, sounding as if it has been playing Wagner's operas for years, in addition to its extremely busy recording schedule for other repertoire. In light of these points, Rattle's Rheingold is a fine recording for home listening and studying the score, as opposed to a more theatrical or historical version to be appreciated for distinctive acting or legendary singing.© TiVo
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Richard Wagner : Das Rheingold (L'Or du Rhin)

Wiener Staatsoper

Classical - Released July 8, 2012 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Gern geschehen

Blumentopf

Pop/Rock - Released September 15, 2003 | Four Music

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Richard Wagner : Der Fliegende Holländer - Pierre-Louis Dietsch : Le vaisseau fantôme ou le maudit des mers

Marc Minkowski

Classical - Released November 4, 2013 | naïve classique

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Das Rheingold

Christian Elsner

Opera - Released May 1, 2013 | PentaTone

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Recorded live on November 22, 2012, in a concert setting, this performance of Das Rheingold continues Marek Janowski's exceptional hybrid SACD series of Richard Wagner's music dramas for PentaTone. Featuring powerful singers and the thrilling playing of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, this is the first opera in the tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen, and the excitement that's needed to kick off the cycle is quickly generated in the opening Prelude. The cast's standouts are baritone Tomasz Konieczny as Wotan, mezzo-soprano Iris Vermillion as Fricka, tenor Christian Elsner as Loge, and baritone Jochen Schmeckenbecher as Alberich, and even though the rest of the singers vary in intonation and vocal quality, the characterizations of unruly and argumentative Norse gods, giants, and dwarves give the performers considerable latitude for uneven or even unlovely singing. For many audiophiles, the vibrant sonorities and crisp details of the Berlin orchestra are the major attraction, and Janowski elicits extraordinary playing that is brilliantly captured in the mutichannel recording. This opening part of Der Ring des Nibelungen promises great things to come in the rest of the operas, and PentaTone's entire Wagner Edition is a fitting celebration of the bicentennial of the composer's birth.© TiVo
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Wagner: Die Walkure (1953)

Ramón Vinay

Classical - Released February 1, 2015 | Myto Historical

Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 / Wolf: Four Goethe Songs

Riccardo Chailly

Classical - Released April 30, 1999 | Decca Music Group Ltd.

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Stölzel: Ein Lämmlein geht und trägt die Schuld

Rheinische Kantorei

Classical - Released August 6, 2021 | CPO

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During the more recent past, finds in libraries have made it clear that Johann Sebastian Bach held his Gotha colleague Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel in high regard. But what was it about Stölzel’s music that made Bach and some of his contemporaries so interested in it? As in the text of the famous Brockes-Passion, which was set to music by Telemann and Handel and then later by Stölzel, what is involved here is not a biblical text expanded by arias but a free poetic composition based on the Passion. While the Evangelist, like a live reporter, documents Jesus’s last hours, the “Faithful Soul” and the “Christian Church” act from the perspective of knowledge of how events will turn out. The oratorio is divided into twenty-two “Reflections” concentrating the various perspectives of the three allegorical figures on particular moments in the action. This impressive music beyond doubt will have a very individual effect on each and every hearer – as was also the case with Bach, who some years later once again took the manuscripts from his music library and used the aria of the thirteenth meditation, Dein Kreuz, o Bräutigam meiner Seele, as the basis for his own aria Bekennen will ich seinen Namen (BWV 200). © CPO
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Wagner: Götterdämmerung

Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra

Classical - Released June 30, 2023 | Decca Music Group Ltd.

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Wagner: Siegfried

Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra

Classical - Released January 1, 1984 | Decca Music Group Ltd.

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Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben - Bach: Cantatas BWV 6-99-147

Collegium Vocale Gent

Classical - Released September 1, 2023 | Phi

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Wagner: Parsifal

Jonas Kaufmann

Classical - Released March 1, 2024 | Sony Classical

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The world was due for a major new recording of Wagner's Parsifal, with some years having elapsed since the monster, four-hour work had seen a fresh one. There are a number of attractions to this one, recorded live at the Vienna State Opera in 2021. First is the production, designed and directed from house arrest in Russia by Kirill Serebrennikov. The version was controversial at the time, and subsequent events have made it timely. Serebrennikov transplants the tale to a modern prison, with characters in tracksuits and the like; the complex witch Kundry is (believe it or not) a photojournalist. None of this affects the singing, which is done straight, but the release graphics give one an idea. The major draw for many listeners, and probably the one that put the album on classical best-seller charts in early 2024, will be the presence of star tenor Jonas Kaufmann, in fine form in the title role (and album listeners get to avoid the flashback staging designed to circumvent that fact that the 50-something Kaufmann was playing a young man). The instrumental work from the Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper is very strong. However, what really puts this performance in the history books is the performance of mezzo-soprano Elina Garanca as Kundry. This was apparently her first appearance in a Wagner opera, but in the top-volume material in Act III, she is fully Kaufmann's equal. Some may find that she carries the whole production, with a rising line of intensity running through the whole giant structure. In any event, even listeners who own the Parsifal of Herbert von Karajan or one of the other classic readings will want to check this recording out.© James Manheim /TiVo
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The Golden Ring: Great Scenes from Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen

Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra

Classical - Released October 28, 2022 | Decca Music Group Ltd.

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Georg Solti's recording of Wagner's Ring Cycle with the Vienna Philharmonic and a galaxy of star singers, made between 1958 and 1965, has twice (by Gramophone magazine and the BBC) been called the greatest recording ever made. Among opera fans, a notoriously fractious bunch, there is, of course, debate over this, but no one considers it anything other than a stupendous engineering achievement. It is probably the only opera recording where an engineer is credited in the blurb title; Decca refers to it as the "Solti Culshaw Decca recording," in honor of original engineer John Culshaw, for whom no detail was too small to be attended. Decca is reissuing the original operas in 2022 and 2023, together with the present single-disc set of excerpts. For audiophile listeners, this will be pretty much essential, and the booklet is full of fascinating details about the sound (the Sofiensaal in Vienna, which Decca used as its studio for many years, was a former bathhouse -- the Sofienbad -- and its acoustics were due to "not just the high-vaulted ceiling of the original baths but also because the pool was covered over, creating a cavity beneath the floor and stage area"). Even after almost 65 years, these early stereo recordings sound great; the brass pop and the singers are very sharply defined. Those singers -- Kirsten Flagstad, Hans Hotter, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Christa Ludwig, Joan Sutherland, and the list goes on and on -- still leave one wondering who is going to fill their shoes. This is a remastering from the original tapes that has sharpened the sound still further; a good deal of restoration work was done, including baking some tapes at 55 degrees Celsius. A nice touch is the reproduction of the cheesy original album art. The bottom line is that this recording is not only for audiophiles but also for anyone wanting a single-album summary of the Ring; sample the famous numbers, like the "Ride of the Valkyries," Siegfried's horn, and perhaps the final number from Götterdämmerung, which ties some of the cycle together, and one gets a glimmer of what Wagner is really all about. © James Manheim /TiVo
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Wagner: Parsifal by Hans Knappertsbusch

Hans Knappertsbusch

Opera - Released February 8, 2023 | Alexandre Bak - Classical Music Reference Recording

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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen (Live)

Bayreuther Festspielorchester

Opera - Released January 11, 2009 | Opus Arte

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Echo: Schubert, Loewe, Schumann & Wolf

Georg Nigl

Classical - Released May 5, 2023 | Alpha Classics

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Wagner: Parsifal, WWV 111

Hans Knappertsbusch

Opera - Released July 26, 2007 | Orfeo

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Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244 by Otto Klemperer

Otto Klemperer

Classical - Released March 4, 2023 | Alexandre Bak - Classical Music Reference Recording

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