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Bayreuther Festspiele live

Bayreuther Festspiele live

Live recordings from the Bayreuth Festival.

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Showing 1 - 10 of 12 results
  • Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer

    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…... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2010 More…
    • Release Date: 19th Oct 2009
    • Catalogue No: C692092
    • Label: Orfeo
    • Series: Orfeo d'Or, Bayreuther Festspiele live
    • Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

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  • Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer

    Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer

    George London (Dutchman), Josef Greindl (Daland), Leonie Rysanek (Senta), Fritz Uhl (Erik), Res Fischer (Mary), Georg Paskuda (Steuermann)

    Bayreuther Festspiele, Wolfgang Sawallisch

    A blistering mono performance live from Bayreuth. Wolfgang Sawallisch takes no musical prisoners as Leonie Rysanek tears through Senta, all but incinerating George London’s Dutchman. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…
    • Release Date: 10th Aug 2018
    • Catalogue No: C936182I
    • Label: Orfeo
    • Series: Orfeo d'Or, Bayreuther Festspiele live
    • Length: 2 hours 6 minutes

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    $22.50

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  • Wagner: Tannhäuser

    Wagner: Tannhäuser

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    Wolfgang Windgassen (Tannhäuser), Victoria de los Angeles (Elisabeth), Grace Bumbry (Venus), Josef Greindl (Landgraf), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Wolfram), Gerhard Stolze (Walther), Franz Crass (Biterolf), Gerhard Paskuda (Heinrich), Theo Adam (Reinmar)

    Orchesta of the Bayreuth Festival, Wolfgang...

    Bumbry's über-sensuous Venus [is] a feline Carmen transported to the Horselborg...This performance is all the more treasurable because it is the first of de Los Angeles’s three Wagner roles…to... — International Record Review, December 2014 More…
    • Release Date: 15th Sep 2014
    • Catalogue No: C888143D
    • Label: Orfeo
    • Series: Orfeo d'Or, Bayreuther Festspiele live
    • Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

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  • Wagner: Parsifal

    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... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…
    • Release Date: 1st Oct 2007
    • Catalogue No: C690074
    • Label: Orfeo
    • Series: Orfeo d'Or, Bayreuther Festspiele live
    • Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

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  • Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

    Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

    Birgit Nilsson (soprano), Grace Hoffmann (alto), Josef Traxel (tenor), Wolfgang Windgassen (tenor), Erik Sædén (baritone), Fritz Uhl (tenor), Josef Greindl (bass), Hermann Winkler (tenor), Egmont Koch (baritone)

    Bayreuth Festival Chorus, Wolfgang Sawallisch

    Nilsson is heard at a pre-Wieland staging of her Isolde – more flashily indulgent (the tope notes are presented as big events) but already loving and passionate in a unique way (try ‘Tod uns... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2018 More…
    • Release Date: 13th Jul 2018
    • Catalogue No: C951183D
    • Label: Orfeo
    • Series: Orfeo d'Or, Bayreuther Festspiele live
    • Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

    3 CDs

    $33.75

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  • Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral'

    Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral'

    Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth Höngen, Hans Hopf & Otto Edelmann

    Festspielorchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Wilhelm Furtwängler

    • Release Date: 4th Feb 2008
    • Catalogue No: C754081
    • Label: Orfeo
    • Series: Orfeo d'Or, Bayreuther Festspiele live
    • Length: 74 minutes

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    $13.25

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  • Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

    Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

    Ramon Vinay, Ludwig Weber, Martha Mödl, Hans Hotter, Hermann Uhde, Ira Malaniuk

    Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Chor der Bayreuther Festspiele, Herbert von Karajan

    • Catalogue No: C603033
    • Label: Orfeo
    • Series: Orfeo d'Or, Bayreuther Festspiele live
    • Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

    3 CDs

    $33.75

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  • Wagner: Lohengrin

    Wagner: Lohengrin

    Franz Crass (King Henry), Sándor Kónya (Lohengrin), Elisabeth Grümmer (Elsa), Ernest Blanc (Telramund), Rita Gorr (Ortrud) & Eberhard Waechter (herald)

    Orchester & Chor der Bayreuther Festspiele, Lovro von Matacic

    • Release Date: 2nd Oct 2006
    • Catalogue No: C691063
    • Label: Orfeo
    • Series: Orfeo d'Or, Bayreuther Festspiele live
    • Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

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  • Wagner: Tannhäuser

    Wagner: Tannhäuser

    Wolfgang Windgassen (Tannhäuser), Gré Brouwenstijn (Elisabeth), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Wolfram), Hertha Wilfert (Venus), Josef Greindl (Hermann)

    Bayreuth Festival Chorus & Orchestra, Andre Cluytens

    This is a revelatory interpretation of a work which isn't easy to bring off. André Cluytens had taken over the musical direction at Bayreuth from Eugen Jochum at short notice, and he seems energised... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…
    • Release Date: 11th Oct 2004
    • Catalogue No: C643043
    • Label: Orfeo
    • Series: Orfeo d'Or, Bayreuther Festspiele live
    • Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

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  • Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

    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

    • Release Date: 29th Sep 2008
    • Catalogue No: C753084
    • Label: Orfeo
    • Series: Orfeo d'Or, Bayreuther Festspiele live
    • Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

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