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Remastered for Philips’ 50 Great Recordings series, the orchestral image in Hans Knappertsbusch’s 1962 Bayreuth Parsifal seems brighter, more forward than before, and I detect
In some circles Hans Knappertsbusch has the reputation of a great Brucknerian, but you certainly couldn’t prove it by this dreadful performance of the Symphony
Hans Knappertsbusch’s Fidelio had the misfortune (or good fortune, depending on your point of view) to appear about the same time as Klemperer’s superior EMI
This German Radio broadcast of Act 3 from Wagner’s Parsifal has had at least three previous CD incarnations, sounding best on Preiser (90261). Maggie Payne
Zubin Mehta invests Schubert’s teenage Symphony No. 1 with a weight and energy we would expect in a Beethoven symphony. The result is a powerful
Stop it already! How much more live Hans Knappertsbusch material in terrible sound can the public tolerate? Here, for instance, is a 1964 concert rendition
This is for fans of Tiana Lemnitz and Michael Bohnen only. We get highlights from the opera from a l936 Berlin performance sloppily led and
Three complete Hans Knappertsbusch Ring Cycles recorded live at the Bayreuth Festival exist via archival or broadcast tapes recorded at the performances. The 1957 and
This recording of Act I of Wagner’s Die Walküre was recorded in the studio in 1957. Hans Knappertsbusch’s approach is familiar to Wagner fans: big,
According to the booklet notes, Hans Knappertsbusch led this live 1955 Der Rosenkavalier on a wing and a prayer. He knew Rosenkavalier, the Vienna Philharmonic
