Merit - Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen / Knappertsbusch

Merit - Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen / Knappertsbusch - Music & Arts - M&A 4009

Label: Music & Arts
Catalog No: M&A 4009
Format: CD
Release Date: 2002-05-01
Number of Discs: 13
Running time: 15 hr. 8 min.
UPC Code: 017685400926

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Writes critic William H. Youngren in his liner notes: When I reflect on what was unique about Knappertsbusch's work, Wagner's tempo direction `Lebhaft, doch gewichtig' [lively, yet weighty] comes to mind. At his best, Knappertsbusch was able to create impressive masses of sound that moved, even at slow tempos, with an inner rhythmic life that propelled the drama forward yet also, even at fast tempos, seemed never to rush along unduly, seemed always to leave the listener time to experience everything as it went by. This performance was previously available in a cheap set pressed in Croatia. The present edition was carefully remastered from an original set of broadcast tapes in superb sound.

"The cast would be hard to better at any time, let alone now... rare sense of Wagner's scoring, as well as his mastery of the formal architecture, are splendidly apparent." David Cairns, The Sunday Times (London)

"[Knappertsbusch] was certainly among the greatest Wagnerian conductors of the last hundred years. Listen to his Immolation Scene with Astrid Varnay...and you hear Brunnhildeís apotheosis unfold with an unsurpassed sense of inevitability." Robert Cowan, BBC Music Magazine

"The Knappertsbusch [set] is a very special event, at its best and its often at its best unrivalled by any of these other readings." Alan Blyth, Gramophone

"Except for the final scene of SIEGFRIED, more exciting in 1958, this is the most urgent of Hans Knappertsbusch's four impressive Bayreuth Rings..." C.J. Luten, Opera News



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Works Details

>Wagner, Richard : Das Rheingold
  • Performers: Ludwig Suthaus (Tenor); Josef Traxel (Tenor); Arnold Mill (Bass Baritone); Maria Ilosvay (Alto); Paul Kuen (Tenor); Lore Wissmann (Voice); Hans Hotter (Bass Baritone); Gré Brouwenstijn (Soprano); Gustav Neidlinger (Bass Baritone); Paula Lenchner (Soprano); Georgine Milinkovic (Mezzo Soprano); Alfons Herwig (Baritone)
  • Conductor: Hans Knappertsbusch
  • Ensemble: Bayreuth Festival Orchestra
  • Running Time: 108 min. 32 sec.
  • Period Time: Romantic
  • Form: Opera/Operetta
  • Written: 1853-1854

>Wagner, Richard : Die Walküre
  • Performers: Luise Kamps (Voice); Astrid Varnay (Soprano); Hilde Scheppan (Soprano); Elisabeth Schartel (Voice); Paula Lenchner (Soprano); Jean Madeira (Mezzo Soprano); Gerda Lammers (Soprano); Hans Hotter (Bass Baritone); Josef Greindl (Bass); Wolfgang Windgassen; Georgine Milinkovic (Mezzo Soprano); Maria Ilosvay (Alto)
  • Conductor: Hans Knappertsbusch
  • Ensemble: Bayreuth Festival Orchestra
  • Running Time: 141 min. 59 sec.
  • Period Time: Romantic
  • Form: Opera/Operetta
  • Written: 1854-1856

>Wagner, Richard : Siegfried
  • Performers: Hans Hotter (Bass Baritone); Ilse Hollweg (Soprano); Arnold Mill (Voice); Wolfgang Windgassen; Gustav Neidlinger (Baritone); Paul Kuen (Tenor); Astrid Varnay (Soprano)
  • Conductor: Hans Knappertsbusch
  • Ensemble: Bayreuth Festival Orchestra
  • Running Time: 184 min. 11 sec.
  • Period Time: Romantic
  • Form: Opera/Operetta
  • Written: 1856-1871

>Wagner, Richard : Götterdämmerung
  • Performers: Gré Brouwenstijn (Soprano); Paula Lenchner (Soprano); Lore Wissmann (Voice); Maria Ilosvay (Alto); Hermann Uhde (Baritone); Gustav Neidlinger (Baritone); Wolfgang Windgassen; Astrid Varnay (Soprano)
  • Conductor: Hans Knappertsbusch
  • Ensemble: Bayreuth Festival Chorus
  • Running Time: 180 min. 17 sec.
  • Period Time: Romantic
  • Form: Opera/Operetta
  • Written: 1869-1874