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There are only a couple of reasons to hear this performance, and practically none for seeing it. I believe it is the only video remnant
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
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
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
Not quite hot-on-the-heels of the July 28, 1955 Götterdämmerung that triumphantly capped Decca’s long-buried stereo Bayreuth Ring cycle released by Testament comes an alternate recording
A conductor has two jobs: first, to arrive at a conception of the work, and second, to get the players under his direction to realize
I guess that Ring Cycles fall into categories: the tense and intense (Clemens Krauss, Karl Böhm, Joseph Keilberth, Pierre Boulez); epic, broad, and architectural (Wilhelm
This addition to the Tristan sweepstakes is a great surprise and is highly recommended. It is crucial if only for the conducting of Carlos Kleiber.
The year was 1953, and all was right with the world. Germany, or at least its Western half, was in the full swing of post-War
Listeners familiar with the 1966 recording of this opera, also from Bayreuth and featuring three of the same main players–Nilsson, Windgassen, and Waechter–will have an
