Georg Zeppenfeld
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Wagner: Parsifal
Jonas Kaufmann (Parsifal), Ludovic Tézier (Amfortas), Elina Garanča (Kundry), Georg Zeppenfeld (Gurnemanz), Wolfgang Koch (Klingsor), Stefan Cerny (Titurel), Wiener Staatsoper, Philippe Jordan
Kaufmann lives up to his reputation for burnished tenor sound, musicality and good sense...Most impressive of all is Elina Garanča’s Kundry, wondrously luminous and seductive of voice, fully... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2024, Editor's Choice
4 CDs
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Beethoven: Fidelio
Lise Davidsen (Leonore), Christian Elsner (Florestan), Georg Zeppenfeld (Rocco), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Don Pizarro), Christina Landshamer (Marzelline), Cornel Frey (Jaquino), Günther Groissböck (Don Fernando), Dresdner Philharmoniker, Marek Janowski
it’s the orchestra which catches attention, with Janowski coaxing heartfelt playing from the strings and above all the horns, who somehow come to signify all that is most hopeful in this great... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Opera
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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620
RecommendedRené Pape (Sarastro), Erika Miklósa (Königin der Nacht), Dorothea Röschmann (Pamina), Christoph Strehl (Tamino), Hanno Müller-Brachmann (Papageno), Julia Kleiter (Papagena), Georg Zeppenfeld (Sprecher), Kurt Azesberger (Monostatos), Caroline Stein (Erste Dame), Heidi Zehnder (Zweite Dame), Anne-Carolyn...
This is certainly the most desirable version using modern instruments to appear since Solti's second recording in 1990. That said, its characteristics are rather nearer William Christie's 1995... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2006, Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2006, Disc of the month
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Record Review, December 2006, Critics Disc of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2006, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Albert Dohmen (Hans Sachs), Robert Dean Smith (Walther), Edith Haller (Eva), Dietrich Henschel (Beckmesser), Peter Sonn (David), Michelle Breedt (Magdalene), Georg Zeppenfeld (Pogner)
Rundfunkchor Berlin & Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Marek Janowski
[a good Meistersinger] should show teamwork among the soloists and a good balance between the conversational style of much of the singing and the grandeur of the orchestral accompaniment. On... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Finalist - Opera
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2012, Opera Choice
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Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer
John Lundgren (Dutchman), Asmik Grigorian (Senta), Georg Zeppenfeld (Daland), Eric Cutler (Erik), Marina Prudenskaya (Mary)
Bayreuth Festspiel, Oksana Lyniv, Dmitri Tcherniakov
Lyniv’s conducting is superb in terms of pacing and tonal weight and balance...Grigorian and Zeppenfeld sing as fluently and fearlessly as they act. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2022, Blu-ray of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Video: Opera
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Strauss: Capriccio
Camilla Nylund (Countess), Christoph Pohl (Count), Daniel Behle (Flamand), Nikolay Borchev (Olivier), Georg Zeppenfeld (La Roche)
Sachsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann, Jens-Daniel Herzog
[Behle] is simply perfect both vocally and dramatically...Nylund’s opulent soprano as a handsome Countess Madeleine is best when she can billow, and the final scene rises to something remarkable...Thielemann... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Video Opera
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2023, Blu-ray of the Month
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Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Georg Zeppenfeld (Hans Sachs), Vitalij Kowaljow (Veit Pogner), , Adrian Erod (Sixtus Beckmesser), Klaus Florian Vogt (Walther von Stolzing), Sebastian Kohlhepp (David), Jacquelyn Wagner (Eva), Iurie Ciobanu (Kunz Vogelsang), Gunter Haumer (Konrad Nachtigall), Levente Pall (Fritz Kothner), Markus...
Thielemann inspires a fine standard of musicianship and overall commitment in the orchestra, principals and chorus...Leading the cast is Georg Zeppenfeld’s eloquently phrased, truly menschlich... — More…
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Record Review, 21st November 2020, Record of the Week
4 CDs
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Schubert: Fierrabras D 796
Michael Schade (Fierrabras), Julia Kleiter (Emma), Benjamin Bernheim (Eginhard), Dorothea Röschmann (Florinda), Markus Werba (Roland), Georg Zeppenfeld (Charlemagne), Marie-Claude Chappuis (Maragond), Manuel Walser (Brutamonte)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Ingo Metzmacher
...the Vienna Philharmonic supplying focused playing under Ingo Metzmacher, and several worthwhile principal performances, especially from Georg Zeppenfeld’s firm Karl, Michael Schade’s engaged... — More…
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Wagner: Lohengrin
Klaus Florian Vogt (Lohengrin), Annette Dasch (Elsa), Petra Lang (Ortrud), Jukka Rasilainen (Telramund), Georg Zeppenfeld (König Heinrich), Samuel Youn (Der Heerrufer Des Königs), Bayreuth Festival, Andris Nelsons
The best singing comes from Annette Dasch’s Elsa, although her vibrato occasionally verges on unsteadiness; Georg Zeppenfeld’s mellow but light King Henry, short on low resonance; and Samuel... — More…
3 CDs
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Abbado: Mozart
Rudolf Serkin (piano, cadenzor), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (cadenzor), Robert Casadesus (cadenzor), Ludwig van Beethoven (cadenzor), Maria João Pires (piano), Paul Badura-Skoda (cadenzor), Martha Argerich (piano), Friedrich Gulda (cadenzor, piano), Giuliano Carmignola (violin), Franco Gulli (cadenzor),...
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