Offer,Wagner: The Operas
including the Ring cycle
Norman Bailey (Der Holländer), Janis Martin (Senta), René Kollo (Erik), Martti Talvela (Daland), Werner Krenn (Der Steuermann), Isola Jones (Mary), Plácido Domingo (Lohengrin), Jessye Norman (Elsa), Siegmund Nimsgern (Telramund), Eva Randová (Ortrud), Han Sotin (Landgraf), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau...
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Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer
- Norman Bailey (bass-baritone), Isola Jones (mezzo-soprano), René Kollo (tenor), Martti Talvela (bass), Janis Martin (soprano), Werner Krenn (tenor)
- Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Chorus
- Sir Georg Solti
- Recorded: 1976-05-18
- Recording Venue: Medinah Temple, Chicago
Overture
"Hojoje! Hallojo! Ho!...Kein Zweifel! Sieben Meilen"
"Mit Gewitter und Sturm aus fernem Meer...Von des Südens Gestad'"
Wagner: Lohengrin
- Czeslawa Slania (soprano), Siegmund Nimsgern (bass), Plácido Domingo (tenor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Anna Gonda (soprano), Eva Randová (mezzo-soprano), Hans Sotin (bass), Jessye Norman (soprano), Brigitte Poschner (soprano), Madelyn Renee (soprano), Thomas Mohr (bass), Anton Scharinger (bass), Alfred Sramek (bass), Peter Jelosits (tenor)
- Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Staatsoper
- Sir Georg Solti
- Recorded: 1985-11-11
- Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna
Prelude to Act 1
"Hört, Grafen, Edle, Freie von Brabant!"
"Dank, König, dir, daß du zu richten kamst!"
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
- René Kollo (tenor), Norman Bailey (bass-baritone), Kurt Rydl (bass), Adolfo Dallapozza (tenor), Rudolf A Hartmann (bass), Adalbert Kraus (tenor), Julia Hamari (mezzo-soprano), Martin Egel (baritone), Werner Klumlikboldt (bass), Hannelore Bode (soprano), Kurt Moll (bass), Wolfgang Appel (tenor), Herbert Berger-Tuna (singer), Bernd Weikl (baritone), Max Schönherr (tenor), Michel Sénéchal (tenor), Gerd Nienstedt (bass)
- Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Staatsoper, Gumpoldskirchner Spatzen
- Sir Georg Solti
- Recorded: 1975-10
- Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna
Prelude
"Da zu dir der Heiland kam"
"Verweilt! - Ein Wort"
Wagner: Parsifal
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Hans Hotter (bass), Zoltan Kelemen (bass), Lucia Popp (soprano), Gottlob Frick (bass), Marga Schiml (contralto), Margarita Lilowa (mezzo-soprano), Herbert Lackner (bass), Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano), Ewald Aichberger (baritone), Robert Tear (tenor), Heinz Zednik (tenor), René Kollo (tenor), Gillian Knight (mezzo-soprano), Rotraud Hansmann (soprano), Anne Howells (soprano), Alison Hargan (soprano), Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano)
- Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Sängerknaben, Wiener Staatsoper
- Sir Georg Solti
- Recorded: 1971-12
- Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna
Prelude
"He! Ho! Waldhüter ihr"
"Seht dort, die wilde Reiterin"
Wagner: Das Rheingold
- Waldemar Kmentt (tenor), Jean Madeira (mezzo-soprano), Hetty Plumacher (contralto), Kirsten Flagstad (soprano), Kurt Böhme (bass), Gustav Neidlinger (bass), Claire Watson (soprano), Paul Kuentz (tenor), Ira Malaniuk (contralto), George London (bass-baritone), Oda Balsborg (soprano), Walter Kreppel (bass), Eberhard Wächter (baritone), Set Svanholm (tenor)
- Wiener Philharmoniker
- Sir Georg Solti
- Recorded: 1958-09-24
- Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna
Vorspiel
"Weia! Waga! Woge du Welle!"
"Garstig glatter glitschriger Glimmer!"
Wagner: Die Walküre
- Vera Schlosser (soprano), James King (tenor), Marilyn Tyler (soprano), Hans Hotter (bass-baritone), Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano), Ernst Wiemann (bass), Régine Crespin (soprano), Birgit Nilsson (soprano), Vera Little (mezzo-soprano), Gottlob Frick (bass), Claudia Hellmann (mezzo-soprano), Helga Dernesch (soprano), Brigitte Fassbaender (contralto), Berit Lindholm (soprano), Helen Watts (contralto)
- Wiener Philharmoniker
- Sir Georg Solti
- Recorded: 1965-11
- Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna
Orchestervorspiel
"Wes Herd dies auch, hier muß ich rasten"
"Kühlende Labung gab mir der Quell"
Wagner: Siegfried
- Gerhard Stolze (tenor), Wolfgang Windgassen (tenor), Hans Hotter (bass), Gustav Neidlinger (bass), Birgit Nilsson (soprano), Kurt Böhme (bass), Dame Joan Sutherland (soprano), Marga Höffgen (contralto)
- Wiener Philharmoniker
- Sir Georg Solti
- Recorded: 1962-05-08
- Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna
Vorspiel
Zwangvolle Plage! Müh ohne Zweck!
"Hoiho! Hoiho! Hau ein! Hau ein!"
Wagner: Götterdämmerung
- Lucia Popp (soprano), Birgit Nilsson (soprano), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Gustav Neidlinger (bass), Helen Watts (contralto), Grace Hoffman (mezzo-soprano), Maureen Guy (mezzo-soprano), Wolfgang Windgassen (tenor), Gottlob Frick (bass), Claire Watson (soprano), Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano), Anita Valkki (soprano), Gwyneth Jones (soprano)
- Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Staatsoper
- Sir Georg Solti
- Recorded: 1964-11
- Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna
"Welch Licht leuchtet dort?"
Treu beratner Verträge Runen
"Es ragt die Burg, von Riesen gebaut"
Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70 - Paris version
- Helga Dernesch (soprano), Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano), Norman Bailey (bass-baritone), René Kollo (tenor), Kurt Equiluz (tenor), Victor Braun (baritone), Werner Hollweg (tenor), Hans Sotin (bass), Manfred Jungwirth (bass)
- Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Sängerknaben, Wiener Staatsoper
- Sir Georg Solti
- Recorded: 1970-10-03
- Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna
Overture . . . "Naht euch dem Strande"
"Geliebter, sag', wo weilt dein Sinn?"
"Dir töne Lob! Die Wunder sei'n gepriesen"
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
- Peter Klein (tenor), Waldemar Kmentt (tenor), Ernst Kozub (tenor), Regina Resnik (mezzo-soprano), Birgit Nilsson (soprano), Tom Krause (baritone), Arnold van Mill (bass), Fritz Uhl (tenor), Theodor Kirschbichler (bass)
- Wiener Philharmoniker, Singverein Der Gesellschaft Der Musikfreunde
- Sir Georg Solti
- Recorded: 1960-09-06
- Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna
Prelude - Langsam und smachtend
"Westwärts schweift der Blick"
"Frisch weht der Wind der Heimat zu"