Richard Wagner
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Wagner: Tannhauser / Seiffert, Eiche, Vas, Weigle, Gran Teatre Del Liceu
Tannhäuser
Richard Wagner
Gran Teatre del Liceu 2008
Director: Sebastian Weigle
Orchestra: Simfonica del Gran Teatre del Liceu
Tannhäuser: Peter Seiffert
Elizabeth: Petra Maria Schnitzer
Wolfram: Markus Eiche
Venus: Béatrice Uria-Monzon
Hermann: Günther Groissböck
Walther : Vicente Ombuena
Biterolf: Lauri Vasar
Heinrich: FranciscoVas
Reinmar: Johann Tilli
Aspect Ratio: 16:9, 1080i
Format: PCM Stereo, DTS HD 5.1
Running time: 201 mins
No. of Discs: 1
Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen - Great Scenes
The Colon Ring - Wagner in Buenos Aires
The Beecham Collection: Beecham, Flagstad & Wagner
Wagner, R.: Tristan Und Isolde
Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Wagner: Das Rheingold
Wagner: Lohengrin (Sung in Italian)
Wagner: Götterdämmerung, Act III (Live)
Wagner: The Flying Dutchman, WWV 63
Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos 1-4, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini / Luisi, De La Salle, Philharmonia Zurich
– Forbes (Jens F. Laurson)
SCENES FROM TRISTAN UND ISOLDE
Wagner: Siegfried / Zweden, Hong Kong Philharmonic [Blu-ray Audio]
Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung) is one of the most remarkable achievements in all music, and Siegfried, the third in the cycle, contains some of the greatest moments in Wagner’s entire output. Wagner conceived Siegfried as a heroic ‘man of the future,’ and his fantastical tale is one in which the human dramas of treachery and violent struggles for power become magnified in a world of gods, dragons and magic. The previous opera in this cycle, Die Walkure, was acclaimed in The Guardian as “thrillingly vivid… easily maintains the high standard and promise of Das Rheingold.” (Naxos NBD0049).
Wagner: Piano Sonatas, Lieder / Koch, Hinterdobler, Mauro
This year marks the 200th anniversary of Richard Wagner’s birth. This CD clearly shows Wagner’s ambition to vie with Beethoven, manifesting the inclination towards big and boundless writing. Tobias Koch, one of the most versatile keyboard instrumentalists of his generation, reproduces Wagner’s original sound in brilliant fashion.
Wagner: Overtures & Preludes / Rosbaud, Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra
Hans Rosbaud was the chief conductor of the Southwest Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1948 until his death in 1962. He transformed the orchestra, later renamed as the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg, into a leading European ensemble. His interests lay in both contemporary music and the classical and romantic symphonic repertoire. This new series from the SWR Classic label presents largely unpublished recordings by Rosbaud of classical and romantic repertoire, starting with overtures by Richard Wagner.
Bayreuth 1954
Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen / van Zweden, Hong Kong Philharmonic
Wagner’s visionary Ring of the Nibelung was first performed as a cycle of four operas in 1876. Its mythic plot examines the relationship between love and earthly power through the agency of a ring which confers ultimate power on its bearer.
One of the most sustained and remarkable achievements in all of music, the tetralogy is performed by an all-star cast, conducted by the new music director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden, in performances that have been critically acclaimed worldwide for their “thrilling sense of drama.” (The Sunday Times, London)
Past praise of previously released volumes included in this set:
Das Rheingold
Van Zweden’s approach is closest in memory to Herbert von Karajan’s–intimate and chamber-like. The back and forth between the fine, unexaggerated Fricka of Michelle De Young and the remarkable, surprising Wotan of Matthias Goerne is natural and familiar, and Goerne is the surprise of the performance. His experience and expertise as a Lieder singer comes in very handy in this opera.
– ClassicsToday.com
Die Walküre
This is a Walküre that reveals its treasures slowly; it’s a warm, intimate reading. The Wälsungs are stunning. Stuart Skelton's tone is big and clean, wobble-free. And his cries of “Wälse” in Act 1 have to be heard to be believed. Heidi Melton as Sieglinde is wonderfully expressive. The listener hangs on every perfectly pronounced, clear word she and Skelton sing, and thanks to Zweden, who leads their interactions as if the opera were bel canto, we feel for them. Interrupting their budding love is Falk Struckmann, surprisingly (he’s a baritone, not a bass). He is a grand, scary Hunding.
– ClassicsToday.com
Wagner: Siegfried
Van Zweden's marvelously-rehearsed orchestra play with accuracy, brilliance, and color. I commented on the beauty and sadness of the Walküre performance, and here, added to those two qualities is, by the third act, passion.
Simon O’Neill may not be the most intuitive Siegfried on disc, but he’s among the brightest-toned and most solid, showing no flatting even at the end of his bout with Brünnhilde. Heidi Melton is an excellent Brünnhilde and a marvelous singer/actress, using her half hour to transform with clarity. Everyone proves their mettle, taste, and polish here, and I suspect there will be few who are disappointed.
– ClassicsToday.com
Wagner: Götterdämmerung
This is a grand finale to the Hong Kong Philharmonic’s Ring Cycle. Both Walküre and Siegfried were marvelously conceived, excellent concert performances, each with a minor flaw or two: recording balances out of whack and unfocused mid-voice for Brünnhilde in Walküre; recording too recessed in Siegfried; lack of character delineation in the Wanderer/Mime scene in Act 1 of Siegfried. I was quite taken by the storytelling in both, finding beauty, sadness, and in the Siegfried finale, passion. This set, recorded at two concert performances (and, I suspect, a patch-up session or two—there is NO applause or audience reaction anywhere), is, in one word, majestic, which is a fitting end to the Cycle.
– ClassicsToday.com
Gotterdammerung
Wagner: Siegfried (London, 1959)
Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer, WWV 63 [Recorded 1956]
Wagner: Siegfried (Live)
Tristan & Isolde
Wagner, R.: Walküre (Die) [Opera]
Richard Wagner: Gotterdammerung
