Wagner - Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Prelude to Act 3
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The Wagner Project
RecommendedMatthias Goerne (baritone)
The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding
Goerne does misery masterfully … As Goerne’s Wotan kisses Brünnhilde to sleep, the moment is so intimate that (depending on your speakers) you might even feel a peck on the cheek. Yet this isn’t... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th November 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2017
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Record Review, 23rd December 2017, Recording of the Week
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Nominated - Opera
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an excellent programme in its own right, hard to better, even though, surprisingly, Jarvi in his long career has conducted little or no theatrical Wagner. He tends to favour measured tempos,... — More…
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…Elder… and the Hallé… make the prelude to Mastersingers Act III and the Parsifal music splendidly burnished, glowing affairs, while the Flying Dutchman's storm swirls with Klemperer-like impact. — More…
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Klaus Florian Vogt: Helden
RecommendedKlaus Florian Vogt (tenor), with Manuela Uhl (soprano)
Orchestra of Deutsche Oper Berlin, Peter Schneider
Vogt has an attractive if slender voice, and for him to sing on this album called Heroes seems a bit odd, since he is more suited to tender regrets than to thrilling outbursts of tone. He shows... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th March 2012
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Twilight of The Gods
The Essential Wagner Collection
Helmut Fellmer (chorus master), Wilhelm Pitz (chorus master), Giuseppe Sinopoli (director), Norbert Balatsch (chorus master), Karl Ridderbusch (bass), Helen Donath (soprano), Anna Reynolds (mezzo-soprano), Edda Moser (soprano), Heinz Mende (chorus master)
National Symphony Orchestra Washington,...
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Special offer. Wagner - The Ride of the Valkyries
and other orchestral favourites
London Philharmonic, Mark Elder, Karl Anton Rickenbacher
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Wagner: Orchestral Music from Operas
Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Sofia Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sofia Symphony Orchestra, Gyorgy Lehel, Yuri Ahronovitch, Vassil Kazandjiev
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Special offer. Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder, Siegfried-Idyll & Overtures
Nina Stemme (soprano), Katarina Andreasson (violin)
Svenska Kammarorkestern, Thomas Dausgaard
[the Siegfried Idyll is] performed with a bright morning airiness that recalls its famous premiere...[Stemme's] approach remains expressive and searching, with excellent diction that rides the... — More…
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The Beecham Collection - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
RPO - The early days
Moura Lympany (piano)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham
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Special offer. Wagner: Immolation Scene and Funeral March from Götterdämmerung, Preludes from Lohengrin & Die Meistersinger
Kirsten Flagstad (soprano)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Philharmonia Orchestra, Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Wilhelm Furtwängler
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