Browse: Wolfgang Koch (bass-baritone)
This page lists all recordings performed by Wolfgang Koch.
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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
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Zemlinsky: Eine Florentinische Tragödie Op. 16
Heidi Brunner (Bianca), Wolfgang Koch (Simone) & Charles Reid (Guido Bardi)
ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bertrand De Billy
The vitality of Bertrand de Billy’s conducting and the richness of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra’s playing in this 2010 concert recording are both extremely compelling. Wolfgang Koch provides... — More…
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Record Review, 17th February 2018, Recording of the Week
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Opera, April 2018, Recording of the Month
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Strauss, R: Salome
Emily Magee (Salome), Wolfgang Koch (Jochanaan), Michaela Schuster (Herodias), Peter Bronder (Herodes), Benjamin Bruns (Narraboth)
Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Andres Orozco-Estrada
What we gain here in exemplary clarity of Strauss’s sonic spider-web we lose in momentum for, say, the climactic welter which ends in Jokanaan’s curse…Magee as the spoiled princess propels the... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2018, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Opera
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Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten
Stephen Gould (Der Kaiser), Camilla Nylund (Die Kaiserin), Wolfgang Koch (Barak, der Farber), Nina Stemme (Die Farberin), Evelyn Herlitzius (Die Amme), Sebastian Holecek (Geisterbote)
Wiener Staatsoper, Christian Thielemann
Stemme is focussed and expressive, and if Koch sometimes seems underpowered, that is only through comparison to her. Herlitzius is similarly impressive, and she and Stemme are sufficiently distinct... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2020, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Opera
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Hindemith: Mathis der Maler
Wolfgang Koch (Mathis), Kurt Streit (Albrecht), Martin Snell (Lorenz), Charles Reid (Wolfgang), Franz Grundheber (Riedinger), Manuela Uhl (Ursula), Raymond Very (Hans Schwalb), Wiener Symphoniker, Bertrand De Billy
there is much to admire in this new performance. Wolfgang Koch makes a fine Mathis, less stolid than was Hermann for Albrecht, and – dramatically – as acute as Fischer-Dieskau — More…
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Though not a subtle piece, it is a mightily effective one, and this new recording, taken from four performances at the Frankfurt Opera last autumn, shows its power has not dated. With Wolfgang... — More…
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Wellesz: Die Opferung des Gefangenen
Wolfgang Koch (Feldherr), Robert Brooks (Schildträger des Prinzen), Ivan Urbas (Der Älteste des Rates), Wiener Konzertchor, Friedrich Cerha
Wolfgang Koch gives the Field Commander’s declamatory pronouncements grandeur…The orchestral playing is impeccable and there are strongly-voiced interventions from the choir as the initially... — More…
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Wagner: Das Rheingold
Falk Struckmann (Wotan), Peter Galliard (Loge), Wolfgang Koch (Alberich), Jürgen Sacher (Mime), Tigran Martirossian (Fasolt), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Fafner), Jan Buchwald (Donner), Ladislav Elgr (Froh), Katja Pieweck (Fricka), Hellen Kwon (Freia), Deborah Humble (Erda), Ha Young Lee (Woglinde), Gabriele...
Das Rheingold is a work of intensely dramatic exposition… This Hamburg performance… goes all for the drama, to the point where the characters sometimes almost stop singing and begin to shout.... — More…
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Glanville-Hicks: Sappho
Deborah Polaski (Sappho), Martin Homrich (Phaon), Scott MacAllister (Pittakos), Roman Trekel (Diomedes), Wolfgang Koch (Minos) & John Tomlinson (Kreon)
Orquestra Gulbenkian and Coro Gulbenkian, Jennifer Condon
[Sappho] may not be a lost masterpiece. But it is certainly a massively professional piece of composition whose dramatic timg...keeps a fine balance between local detail and mainline plotting...What... — More…
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