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WAGNER: Orchestra Opera Excerpts / Siegfried Idyll (1950 / 1

Wagner: Wesendonk Lieder & Orchesterstücke

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Following the Walhall release of Wagner's Die Walk�re, the label closes it's legendary 1958 Bayreuth Festival Ring tetralogy publication with the 1st, 3rd and final operas, led by the mid-20th c. Bayreuth pit regular and esteemed Wagnerian conductor Hans Knappertsbusch. The sound, benefitting from 24bit/96kHz re-mastering technology is great, far better than any other label's previous issue, Walhall also reaping the sound reward from the use of the original broadcast mastertapes. Featured Wagnerian vocal luminaries include Hotter, Windgassen, Varnay, Konya, Gr�mmer, et al.

This Is the first release in any format of a performance of Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg that took place in Milan on 13 Feb 1955, recorded on acetate discs and broadcast over the Rai airwaves. It's unique cast, singing under the direction of Hans Rosbaud, features Many Fine, and some more obscure, singers and/or Wagnerians of this glorious era in Wagnerian Production, including Otto Edelmann, Ludwig Weber, Ira Malaniuk, Gerhard Unger, and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, renowned for her R. Strauss Roles, as Eva.

The German conductor Hans Knappertsbusch and the Bayreuth Wagner Festival were nearly synonymous propositions in their respective performative and historical grandeur by the 1950’s, an era also looked back on from the present as a golden age of Wagnerian singing. + Furthering these propositions is the splendid Ring cycle of 1957, which hosted Knappertsbusch and a cast of incredible singers including Hans Hotter, Birgit Nilsson, Astrid Varnay, Ramon Vinay and Wolfgang Windgassen, amongst others, spread across these four 24Bit/96kHz re-mastered volumes from Walhall Eternity.

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This 1956 Bayreuth performance of Richard Wagner’s last opera Parsifal falls on the timeline about halfway between two justifiably famous recordings, Decca’s 1951 (mono) and Philip’s 1962 (stereo) releases, featuring the same conductor, Hans Knappertsbusch, whose luminous conducting of Parsifal (choose any one) in particular is unmatched on record. The cast, as is typically the case from this era of Bayreuth productions, can hardly be bettered: Martha Mödl, Ramón Vinay, a young Dietrich-Fischer-Dieskau (as Amfortas), Hans Hotter, Josef Greindl and Toni Blankenheim.