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Wagner - Götterdämmerung
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Special offer. Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Live recording from the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 2013
Lance Ryan (Siegfried), Iréne Theorin (Brünnhilde), Mikhail Petrenko (Hagen), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Alberich), Gerd Grochowski (Gunther), Waltraud Meier (Waltraute/Zweite Norn); Teatro alla Scala, Daniel Barenboim, Guy Cassiers
These DVDs of La Scala performances...are most notable for showcasing this conductor's supreme command of the epic lyricism that goes to the heart of the Wagner style...while Cassiers achieves... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2014, DVD of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Opera
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Special offer. Wagner: Götterdämmerung
RecommendedKatarina Dalayman (Brünnhilde), Lars Cleveman (Siegfried), Peter Coleman-Wright (Gunther), Attila Jun (Hagen), Nancy Gustafson (Gutrune), Susan Bickley (Waltraute), Andrew Shore (Alberich)
The Hallé, Sir Mark Elder
This is a beautifully paced performance - measured, poetic but dynamic. The orchestra responds superbly....Katarina Dalayman is one of the most appealing Brünnhildes on disc, Lars Cleveman a... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Opera Finalist
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Record Review, December 2010, Critics' Disc of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2010, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Winner - Opera
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Wagner: Götterdämmerung
RecommendedJutta Vulpius, Elisabeth Schärtel, Maria Graf, Gustav Neidlinger, Astrid Varnay, Maria von Ilosvay, Wolfgang Windgassen, Georgine von Milinkovic, Mina Bolotine, Hermann Uhde, Josef Greindl, Gré Brouwenstijn
Bayreuth Festival Chorus & Orchestra, Joseph Keilberth
…Götterdämmerung with white-hot immediacy. The cast is superb, from Norns and Rhinemaidens upward. Keilberth sweeps them all along the path of tragedy with compellingly balanced drive and... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2007, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2007, Disc of the Month
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Winner - Historic Archive
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4 CDs
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Wagner: Götterdämmerung
RecommendedBirgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde), Wolfgang Windgassen (Siegfried), Gottlob Frick (Hagen), Gustav Neidlinger (Alberich), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Gunther), Claire Watson (Gutrune), Christa Ludwig (Waltraute)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023, Shortlisted - Technical Achievement
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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
RecommendedDas Rheingold Hans Hotter (Wotan), Gustav Neidlinger (Alberich), Georgine von Milinkovič (Fricka), Rudolf Lustig (Loge), Paul Kuen (Mime), Ludwig Weber (Fasolt), Josef Greindl (Fafner), Josef Traxel (Froh), Hertha Wilfert (Freia), Jutta Vulpius (Woglinde), Elisabeth Schärtel (Wellgunde),...
[Keilberth] is urgent and passionate, and the thrust of the performance makes the result intensely exciting, inspiring the great Wagnerian singers in the cast to give of their finest...here... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st February 2010
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Building a Library, January 2008, First Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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14 CDs
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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
Tomasz Konieczny (Wotan/Der Wanderer), Camilla Nylund (Brünnhilde), Klaus Florian Vogt (Siegfried), Daniela Köhler (Sieglinde), Eric Cutler (Siegmund), Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke (Mime), Christopher Purves (Alberich)
Philharmonia Zürich, Gianandrea Noseda, Andreas Homoki
This Ring production indeed lends itself to the kind of open-ended interpretations that are the purpose of mythology. For that reason, this Ring DVD may be more durable than most. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2025, Video Choice
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International Opera Awards, 2025, Shortlisted - Complete Recording
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Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Norbert Schmittberg (Siegfried), Catherine Foster (Brünnhilde), Renatus Mészár (Hagen), Mario Hoff (Gunther), Tomas Möwes (Alberich), Marietta Zumbült (Gutrune), Nadine Weissmann (Waltraute), Silona Michel (Woglinde), Susann Günther-Dissmeier (Wellgunde), Christiane Bassek (Flosshilde), Christine...
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Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Live recording from the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 2013
Lance Ryan (Siegfried), Iréne Theorin (Brünnhilde), Mikhail Petrenko (Hagen), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Alberich), Gerd Grochowski (Gunther), Waltraud Meier (Waltraute/Zweite Norn); Teatro alla Scala, Daniel Barenboim, Guy Cassiers
Its greatest asset is Daniel Barenboim's conducting, less vigorous perhaps than his Bayreuth cycle but generally more fluent and sweeping, with fewer abrupt tempo changes, and the La Scala orchestra... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2014, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
RecommendedDas Rheingold
James Morris (Wotan), Ekkehard Wlaschiha (Alberich), Christa Ludwig (Fricka), Siegfried Jerusalem (Loge), Heinz Zednik (Mime), Kurt Moll (Fasolt), Jan-Hendrik Rootering (Fafner), Mark Baker (Froh), MarieAnne Häggander (Freia), Hei-Kyung Hong (Woglinde), Diane...
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Grammy Awards, 32nd Awards (1989), Best Opera Recording
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Grammy Awards, 33rd Awards (1990), Best Opera Recording
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Grammy Awards, 34th Awards (1991), Best Opera Recording
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Warner Classics has reissued a complete set of Wilhelm Furtwängler’s studio recordings, reuniting for the first time Deutsche Grammophon, Polydor, HMV, Decca and Telefunken in one release. This... — More…
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Diapason d’Or, October 2021, Réédition
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Winner - Historical
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55 CDs
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