Wagner: Parsifal
Reiner Goldberg (Parsifal), Robert Lloyd (Gurnemanz), Yvonne Minton (Kundry), Wolfgang Schone (Amfortas), Aage Haugland (Klingsor), Hans Tschammer (Titurel)
Prague Philharmonic Choir & Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Armin Jordan
This work always sounds best recorded 'live' in Bayreuth, but this recording, made as a soundtrack for Hans-Jürgen's Syberberg's extraordinary film, is very fine if not overwhelming.
Wagner: Parsifal
Reiner Goldberg (Parsifal), Robert Lloyd (Gurnemanz), Yvonne Minton (Kundry), Wolfgang Schone (Amfortas), Aage Haugland (Klingsor), Hans Tschammer (Titurel)
Prague Philharmonic Choir & Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Armin Jordan
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This work always sounds best recorded 'live' in Bayreuth, but this recording, made as a soundtrack for Hans-Jürgen's Syberberg's extraordinary film, is very fine if not overwhelming.
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"Reiner Goldberg… sings the most sheerly beautiful Parsifal on record and also manages to delineate clearly the pure fool's development into the rugged saint of Act 3… The musicality, clarity and unexaggerated truthfulness of Goldberg's performance cannot be too highly praised." Gramophone
Contents and tracklist
- Gilles Cachemaille (bass), Hanna Schaer (mezzo-soprano), Paul Frey (tenor), Robert Lloyd (bass), Tamara Herz (soprano), Yvonne Minton (mezzo-soprano), Wolfgang Schöne (baritone), Christer Bladin (tenor), Michael Roider (tenor), Reiner Goldberg (tenor), Hans Tschammer (bass), Gertrud Oertel (mezzo-soprano), Aage Haugland (bass), Britt Marie Aruhn (soprano), Eva Saurova (soprano), Jocelyne Chamonin (soprano)
- Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Prague Philharmonic Choir
- Armin Jordan
Awards and reviews
March 2010
This work always sounds best recorded 'live' in Bayreuth, but this recording, made as a soundtrack for Hans-Jürgen's Syberberg's extraordinary film, is very fine if not overwhelming.