
Hans Knappertsbusch led Wagner’s Parisfal at the Bayreuth Festival in 1951 and 1952, and then annually from 1954 through 1964. For some reason his August
Eloquence’s Hans Knappertsbusch Opera Edition brings together all of the
Intermittently available on CD for decades, Hans Knappertsbusch’s orchestral Decca
The performance here stems from an RIAS broadcast of January
This Blu-ray titled “A Tribute to Hans Knappertsbusch” is a tribute by virtue of showing, not telling, what the conductor was about. There’s no documentary
The Vienna Philharmonic musicians can play these concertos in their
Fwwwwwaaahhhh! Ppplllllaaaahhh! So go the opening chords to Brahms’ Third
This mostly fine performance of Lohengrin from Munich in 1963 is, I believe, making its first appearance on CD with this Orfeo release. The mono
The principal value of this five-CD set lies in “Der
This is a famous performance, one that has not previously been issued. The recording engineer was Decca’s John Culshaw and the set was supposed to