Wagner: Martha Mödl 1955 / Bayreuth Festival Orchestra and Chorus

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Release Date: February 4, 2022

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Featuring ⌄

COMPOSER

Richard Wagner
PERFORMER

Martha Mödl, Orchester Der Bayreuther Festspiele, Chor Der Bayreuther Festspiele

Product Details ⌄

RELEASE DATE

February 04, 2022
UPC

881488210552
CATALOG NUMBER

PH21055
LABEL

Profil
NUMBER OF DISCS

2
GENRE

Classical

Works ⌄

Act III: Vorspiel

Composer: Richard Wagner

Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

Conductor: Joseph Keilberth
Act III: Wache, Wala! Wala! Erwach'! (The Wanderer)

Composer: Richard Wagner

Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

Performer: Hans Hotter

Conductor: Joseph Keilberth
Act III: Stark ruft das Lied (Erda, The Wanderer)

Composer: Richard Wagner

Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

Performer: Mária von Ilosvay, Hans Hotter

Conductor: Joseph Keilberth
Act III: Die Walküre meinst du (Wanderer, Erda)

Composer: Richard Wagner

Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

Performer: Hans Hotter, Mária von Ilosvay

Conductor: Joseph Keilberth
Act III: Dir Unweisen ruf' ich ins Ohr (The Wanderer)

Composer: Richard Wagner

Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

Performer: Hans Hotter

Conductor: Joseph Keilberth
Act III: Mein Vöglein schwebte mir fort! (Siegfried)

Composer: Richard Wagner

Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

Performer: Wolfgang Windgassen

Conductor: Joseph Keilberth
Act III: Kenntest du mich, kühner Spross (Siegfried, Wanderer)

Composer: Richard Wagner

Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

Performer: Wolfgang Windgassen, Hans Hotter

Conductor: Joseph Keilberth
Act III: Orchesterzwischenspiel (Entr'acte)

Composer: Richard Wagner

Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

Conductor: Joseph Keilberth
Act III: Selige Öde auf sonniger Höh'! (Siegfried)

Composer: Richard Wagner

Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

Performer: Wolfgang Windgassen

Conductor: Joseph Keilberth
Act III: Das ist kein Mann! (Siegfried)

Composer: Richard Wagner

Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

Performer: Wolfgang Windgassen

Conductor: Joseph Keilberth
Act III: Heil dir, Sonne! Heil dir, Licht! (Brünnhilde, Siegfried)

Composer: Richard Wagner

Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

Performer: Martha Mödl, Wolfgang Windgassen

Conductor: Joseph Keilberth
Act III: Siegfried! Siegfried! Seliger Held! (Brünnhilde, Siegfried)

Composer: Richard Wagner

Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

Performer: Martha Mödl, Wolfgang Windgassen

Conductor: Joseph Keilberth
Act III: Dort seh' ich Grane (Brünnhilde, Siegfried)

Composer: Richard Wagner

Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

Performer: Martha Mödl, Wolfgang Windgassen

Conductor: Joseph Keilberth
Act III: Ewig war ich, ewig bin ich (Brünnhilde, Siegfried)

Composer: Richard Wagner

Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

Performer: Martha Mödl, Wolfgang Windgassen

Conductor: Joseph Keilberth
Act III: Dich lieb' ich, o liebtest mich du! (Siegfried, Brünnhilde)

Composer: Richard Wagner

Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

Performer: Wolfgang Windgassen, Martha Mödl

Conductor: Joseph Keilberth
Act III: Wie des Blutes Ströme sich zünden (Siegfried, Brünnhilde)

Composer: Richard Wagner

Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

Performer: Wolfgang Windgassen, Martha Mödl

Conductor: Joseph Keilberth
Act II: Prelude

Composer: Richard Wagner

Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

Conductor: Hans Knappertsbusch
Act II: Die Zeit ist da (Klingsor)

Composer: Richard Wagner

Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

Performer: Gustav Neidlinger

Conductor: Hans Knappertsbusch
Act II: Ach! Ach! Tiefe Nacht (Kundry, Klingsor)

Composer: Richard Wagner

Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

Performer: Martha Mödl, Gustav Neidlinger

Conductor: Hans Knappertsbusch
Act II: Furchtbare Not! (Klingsor, Kundry)

Composer: Richard Wagner

Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

Performer: Gustav Neidlinger, Martha Mödl

Conductor: Hans Knappertsbusch
Act II: Ho! Ihr Wachter! Ho! Ritter! (Klingsor)

Composer: Richard Wagner

Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

Performer: Gustav Neidlinger

Conductor: Hans Knappertsbusch
Act II: Hier war das Tosen (Zaubermadchen)

Composer: Richard Wagner

Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

Performer: Elisabeth Schärtel, Dorothea Siebert, Paula Lenchner, Friedl Poltinger, Jutta Vulpius, Ilse Hollweg

Conductor: Hans Knappertsbusch
Act II: Komm'! Komm'! Holder Knabe! (Chorus, Blumenmädchen, Parsifal)

Composer: Richard Wagner

Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielchor, Bayreuther Festspielorchester

Performer: Jutta Vulpius, Elisabeth Schärtel, Friedl Poltinger, Paula Lenchner, Ilse Hollweg, Dorothea Siebert, Ramón Vinay

Conductor: Hans Knappertsbusch
Act II: Parsifal! Weile! (Kundry, Parsifal, Blumenmädchen, Chorus)

Composer: Richard Wagner

Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielchor, Bayreuther Festspielorchester

Performer: Martha Mödl, Ramón Vinay, Dorothea Siebert, Paula Lenchner, Jutta Vulpius, Elisabeth Schärtel, Friedl Poltinger, Ilse Hollweg

Conductor: Hans Knappertsbusch
Act II: Dies alles … hab' ich nun geträumt? (Parsifal, Kundry)

Composer: Richard Wagner

Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

Performer: Ramón Vinay, Martha Mödl

Conductor: Hans Knappertsbusch
Act II: Ich sah das Kind an seiner Mutter Brust (Kundry)

Composer: Richard Wagner

Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

Performer: Martha Mödl

Conductor: Hans Knappertsbusch
Act II: Wehe! Wehe! (Parsifal, Kundry)

Composer: Richard Wagner

Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

Performer: Ramón Vinay, Martha Mödl

Conductor: Hans Knappertsbusch
Act II: Amfortas! Die Wunde! Die Wunde! (Parsifal)

Composer: Richard Wagner

Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

Performer: Ramón Vinay

Conductor: Hans Knappertsbusch
Act II: Gelobter Held! Entflieh dem Wahn! (Kundry, Parsifal)

Composer: Richard Wagner

Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

Performer: Martha Mödl, Ramón Vinay

Conductor: Hans Knappertsbusch
Act II: Grausamer! Fuhlst du im Herzen (Kundry)

Composer: Richard Wagner

Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

Performer: Martha Mödl

Conductor: Hans Knappertsbusch
Act II: Auf Ewigkeit wärst du verdammt (Parsifal, Kundry)

Composer: Richard Wagner

Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

Performer: Ramón Vinay, Martha Mödl

Conductor: Hans Knappertsbusch
Act II: Vergeh, unseliges Weib! (Parsifal, Kundry, Klingsor)

Composer: Richard Wagner

Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

Performer: Ramón Vinay, Martha Mödl, Gustav Neidlinger

Conductor: Hans Knappertsbusch

The recordings here by Martha Mödl from 1955 document not only her impeccable rendering of the German, but also her singular singing status. She started out as a mezzo-soprano, but in 1949, with her first Kundry, she switched to the vocal range midway between mezzo and dramatic soprano, and in March 1952 she sang her first Brünnhilde. She was there from the very start in Neubayreuth: From 1951 to 1955, Mödl sang Kundry in all of the Parsifal performances and only began alternating with Astrid Varnay from 1956. She was also cast in the Ring from 1951, first as Gutrune and the Third Norn, and from 1953 also as Brünnhilde and in 1954 as Sieglinde as well. There, too, she alternated with Varnay, who had been performing almost without pause as Brünnhilde since 1951. Mödl sang Isolde in 1952 and 1953. To the director Wieland Wagner she was a “high dramatic soprano free of pathos”. He valued the way her “voice, personality and performance formed an absolutely inseparable whole”. Her stage presence can no longer be experienced through the recordings, but the vocal penetration of the roles can be.