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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
In time for Georg Solti’s centenary and Wagner’s bi-centenary, in
Siegfried launched Testament’s first-ever release of the 1955 Bayreuth Ring
Das Rheingold marked the third installment of the so-called “missing”
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
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
There are many things to admire about this Tristan, not least the inspired leadership of Carlos Kleiber. He leads with an inner fire, a Böhm-like
Among the Bayreuth Festival Parsifal recordings (official and otherwise) under Hans Knappertsbusch’s direction, this 1954 go-round is closer to the conductor’s weighty 1951 commercially issued
The opening Kyrie of Hermann Scherchen’s idiosyncratic B minor Mass may shock newcomers to this long-controversial performance due to its glacial pace–but the shock, or
