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Recorded live in Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall over two evenings in May, 2009, this concert recording of Wagner’s Götterdämmerung easily stands among the work’s three or
This first “authorized” edition of Clemens Krauss’ 1953 Bayreuth Ring cycle purportedly stems from the original Bavarian Radio master broadcast tapes. As such, we might
Valery Gergiev’s visits to Wagner, at least on evidence of the Mariinsky’s world tour of the Ring a few years ago, have been scrappy and
First things first. Make sure to turn up the volume when playing this low-level live recording, lest you get the impression that nothing’s going on
Director Richard Jones has brought a one-dimensional concept to Munich’s new Lohengrin, recorded in July, 2009. Just as his dark, joyless Hänsel und Gretel at
This performance, recorded live in Hamburg in October, 2008, is a wonderful surprise. Conductor Simone Young brings out the score’s mood changes with great drama;
Recorded during the 2008 Bayreuth Festival, Christian Thielemann’s Ring Cycle is sonically sumptuous, instrumentally dazzling, and vocally inconsistent. As Brünnhilde, Linda Watson’s huge voice battles
If you compare the timings of this performance (3:37:26) with, say, an un-Knappertsbuschian/Toscaninian reading such as Barenboim’s on Teldec (4:16:25) you would conclude that this
Reginald Goodall conducts this May 1971 live Covent Garden Parsifal with the same rhythmic enervation and indifferent sense of shape that mark his EMI studio
If you have 76 minutes to spare for some rare, interesting, and vastly enjoyable piano duet repertoire, consider this release. Georges Onslow’s two sonatas bristle
