Historical - up to 35% off selected lines
Until 24th April 2024, we're offering up to 35% off over 3,500 selected historical recordings across a wide range of labels. Whenever possible we have managed to include downloads in this offer, selling all download formats at MP3 prices (with no reduction on MP3).
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral' Gundula Janowitz (soprano), Grace Bumbry (mezzo), Jess Thomas (tenor), George London (bass)
Chor und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Karl Bohm
In the firm momentum, sleek moulding and Classically wind-heavy balancing of the inner movements may be detected the ghostly hand of Richard Strauss upon his friend’s shoulder. In the second... — More…
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Diapason d’Or, July/August 2018, Collectionneur
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Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer Ludwig Weber (Daland), Astrid Varnay (Senta), Wolfgang Windgassen (Erik), Elisabeth Schärtel (Mary), Josef Traxel (Der Steuermann) & Hermann Uhde (Der Holländer)
Chorus & Orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival, Hans Knappertsbusch
Maestro Knappertsbusch is on the concentrated form of his 1951 Munich Tristan. …all is steely strength, realised through dynamic sensitivity and spacious tempi… Any suspicion that Astrid Varnay…... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2010, Editor's Choice
2 CDs
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Wagner: Parsifal Jon Vickers (Parsifal), Hans Hotter (Gurnemanz), Thomas Stewart (Amfortas), Gustav Neidlinger (Klingsor), Barbro Ericson (Kundry), Heinz Hagenau (Titurel), Anja Silja, Dorothea Siebert, Liselotte Rebmann, Rita Bartos, Else-Margrete Gardelli, Sylvia Lindenstrand (flower maidens) & Ruth Hesse (voice...
The (to date) 11 released recordings of Hans Knappertsbusch's Parsifal performances at Bayreuth between 1951 and 1964 constitute a unique record of one conductor's work on a favoured score in... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2008, Editor's Choice
4 CDs
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral' Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Elisabeth Höngen (mezzo-soprano), Hans Hopf (tenor) & Otto Edelmann (bass)
Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra, Wilhelm Furtwängler
Wilhelm Furtwängler's 1951 recording from the reopening of the Bayreuth Festival takes several minutes to reach full dramatic impetus, but after that it never flags for a moment. — More…
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral' Gre Brouwenstijn (soprano), Ira Malaniuk (alto), Wolfgang Windgassen (tenor) & Ludwig Weber (bass)
Chor und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Wilhelm Furtwängler
Orfeo offers the best sound yet for this performance, even though the vocal soloists remain painfully spotlit. Furtwängler conducts with spacious grandeur and elemental drive. — More…
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Wagner: Lohengrin James King (Lohengrin), Heather Harper (Elsa), Donald McIntyre (Telramund), Grace Hoffman (Ortrud), Karl Ridderbusch (King Henry)
Chor und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Rudolf Kempe
the imaginative choice of Heather Harper pays off in spades in the Act 3 duet. She and the conductor, with James King's sincere co-operation, make a most subtle kind of chamber music together...Throughout... — More…
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Wagner: Tannhäuser Ramón Vinay (Tannhäuser), Gré Brouwenstijn (Elisabeth), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Wolfram), Hertha Wilfert (Venus), Josef Greindl (Hermann), Josef Traxel (Walther von der Vogelweide), Toni Blankenheim (Biterolf), Gerhard Stolze (Heinrich der Schreiber), Theo Adam (Reinmar von Zweter), Volker Horn...
Fischer-Dieskau...and Keilberth are indeed the main reasons for hearing this performance, along with Gré Brouwenstijn’s Elisabeth. Her confident and careful treatment of the music is impressive... — More…
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Wagner: Tannhäuser Wolfgang Windgassen (Tannhäuser), Victoria de los Angeles (Elisabeth), Grace Bumbry (Venus), Josef Greindl (Hermann), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Wolfram von Eschenbach)
Chor und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Wolfgang Sawallisch
3 CDs
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Wagner: Lohengrin Wolfgang Windgassen (Lohengrin), Birgit Nilsson (Elsa), Astrid Varnay (Ortrud), Hermann Uhde (Friedrich von Telramund), Theo Adam (König Heinrich), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Herald)
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, Eugen Jochum
3 CDs
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Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Theo Adam (Sachs), Gwyneth Jones (Eva), Janis Martin (Magdalene), Waldemar Kmentt (Walther), Hermin Esser (David), Thomas Hemsley (Beckmesser) & Karl Ridderbusch (Pogner)
Choir and Orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival, Karl Böhm
4 CDs
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