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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
This 1955 recording seems as if it should be introduced with the words “Did you hear the one about Hermann Prey and Martha Modl singing
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
Numerous incarnations of the 1952 Karajan/Bayreuth Tristan have danced in and out of circulation on CD. Sonically speaking, it’s on par with other archival Bayreuth
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
Appearing, I believe, for the first time on disc, this 1949 Köln Radio broadcast of Wagner’s last opera has a lot going for it. First
Strauss’s 1935 Die Schweigsame Frau was banned by the Nazis after only four performances becuase its librettist, Stefan Zweig, was Jewish, and, to be sure,
