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Wagner: Parsifal

4 CD / Testament / 2010-04-13

Works: Richard Wagner: Parsifal
Conductors: Kempe, Rudolf

First premiered in 1882, Wagner's last music-drama, Parsifal, was performed at Covent Garden for the first time in 1951. The opera still had a reputation,...continue...
Recording information: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, England (06/16/1959)....continue...

Wagner: Die Walküre (1955), etc / Martha Mödl, Astrid Varnay, et al

4 CD / Testament / 2009-10-13

Works: Richard Wagner: Die Walküre; Tannhäuser
Performers: Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; Graf, Maria [Mezzo-soprano]; Greindl, Josef; Hotter, Hans; Ilosvay, Maria von; Lammers, Gerda; Milinkovic, Georgine von; Modl, Martha; Schartel, Elisabeth; Scheppan, Hilde;...
Conductors: Keilberth, Joseph

The release of Joseph Keilberth’s legendary stereo recordings of the first cycle of the 1955 Ring at Bayreuth brought Testament worldwide acclaim. Partly for recording...continue...

Wagner: Götterdämmerung / Keilberth, Mödl, Windgassen, Greindl, Hotter, et al

4 CD / Testament / 2009-02-10

Works: Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Performers: Brouwenstijn, Gre; Graf, Maria [Mezzo-soprano]; Greindl, Josef; Hotter, Hans; Ilosvay, Maria von; Milinkovic, Georgine von; Modl, Martha; Neidlinger, Gustav [Baritone Vocals]; Schartel, Elisabeth; Va...
Conductors: Keilberth, Joseph
Ensemble: Bayreuth Festival Orchestra

Testament's highly acclaimed release of the legendary 1955 stereo recordings of the Ring made by Decca at Bayreuth featured the first of two cycles of...continue...

Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer / Klemperer, Silja, King, Adam, Talvela, et al

2 CD / Testament / 2008-10-14

Works: Richard Wagner: The Flying Dutchman
Performers: Adam, Theo; Burmeister, Annelies; King, James [Vocals]; MacDonald, Kenneth; Silja, Anja; Talvela, Martti
Conductors: Klemperer, Otto
Ensemble: BBC Chorus

The great conductor Otto Klemperer was known for his 'deliberate' tempos. The Observer's review of the live performance heard here said, "From the opening bars...continue...

Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder, etc / Eileen Farrell, Set Svanholm, et al

1 CD / Testament / 2008-10-14

Works: Richard Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder; Siegfried
Performers: Farrell, Eileen [Soprano Vocals]; Svanholm, Set [Tenor Vocals]
Conductors: Stokowski, Leopold; Leinsdorf, Erich
Ensemble: Leopold Stokowski Orchestra; Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra

Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen / Kempe, Hotter, Nilsson, Windgassen, Vinay, et al

13 CD / Testament / 2008-08-12

Works: Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold; Die Walküre; Siegfried; Götterdämmerung
Performers: Allman, Robert; Bohme, Kurt [Bass Vocal]; Coates, Edith; Dalberg, Frederick; Evans, Edgar; Fisher, Sylvia; Grant, June; Hale, Una; Hotter, Hans; Howitt, Barbara; Ilosvay, Maria von; Klein, Peter; Kra...
Conductors: Kempe, Rudolf
Ensemble: Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra

Richard Wagner's complete 'Ring' cycle led by Rudolf Kempe, recorded live at the Royal Opera House in 1957 is now available from Testament in new...continue...

Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen / Keilberth, et al

14 CD / Testament / 2008-02-12

Works: Richard Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
Performers: Blankenheim, Toni; Bolotine, Mina; Brouwenstijn, Gre; Graf, Maria [Mezzo-soprano]; Greindl, Josef; Hollweg, Ilse; Hotter, Hans; Ilosvay, Maria von; Kuen, Paul; Lammers, Gerda; Lustig, Rudolf; Milinko...
Conductors: Keilberth, Joseph
Ensemble: Bayreuth Festival Orchestra

Testament is proud to present the first-ever stereo recording of the 'Ring' cycle featuring definitive performances by Wolfgang Windgassen as Siegfried, Hans Hotter as Wotan,...continue...

Strauss: Four Last Songs; Wagner / Furtwängler, Flagstad

1 CD / Testament / 2007-06-12

Works: Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs, AV 150; Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, opera, WWV 90; Götterdämmerung
Performers: Flagstad, Kirsten
Conductors: Furtwängler, Wilhelm

"As Michael Tanner opines in an interesting booklet-note, these two formidable artists had several collaborations in these Wagnerian excerpts, but caught live in very reasonable...continue...

Wagner: Götterdämmerung / Keilberth, et al

4 CD / Testament / 2007-02-13

Works: Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Performers: Bolotine, Mina; Brouwenstijn, Gré; Graf, Maria [Mezzo-soprano]; Greindl, Josef; Ilosvay, Maria von; Milinkovic, Georgine von; Neidlinger, Gustav [Baritone Vocals]; Schartel, Elisabeth; Uhde, H...
Conductors: Keilberth, Joseph
Ensemble: Bayreuth Festival Chorus

"So the great project reaches its glorious close, as magnificently conducted, played, and sung as the rest of this revelatory Ring. One wonders anew at...continue...

Wagner: Das Rheingold / Keilberth, Hotter, Lustig, et al

2 CD / Testament / 2006-12-12

Works: Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold
Performers: Blankenheim, Toni; Graf, Maria [Mezzo-soprano]; Greindl, Josef; Hotter, Hans; Ilosvay, Maria von; Kuen, Paul; Lustig, Rudolf; Milinkovic, Georgine von; Neidlinger, Gustav [Baritone Vocals]; Schartel,...
Conductors: Keilberth, Joseph
Ensemble: Bayreuth Festival Orchestra

"It turns out that the landmark account of Wagner's "Ring" with Georg Solti conducting the Vienna Philharmonic, begun in 1958, was not the first stereo...continue...

Ten Top Tenors / Caruso, Roswaenge, Gigli, Tauber, et al

1 CD / Testament / 2006-11-14

Works: Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, opera; Salvatore Cardillo: Core' ngrato; Adolphe Adam: Le postillon de Lonjumeau; Daniel-François-Esprit Auber: Fra Diavolo; Charles Gounod: Faust; Giacomo Puccin...
Performers: Bjorling, Jussi; Caruso, Enrico; Gigli, Beniamino; Kreisler, Fritz; Martinelli, Giovanni; McCormack, John [Tenor Vocal]; Melchior, Lauritz; Rosvaenge, Helge; Schipa, Tito [Tenor Vocal]; Schneider, Ed...
Conductors: Rogers, Walter B.; Seidler-Winkler, Bruno; Goossens, Eugene, Sir; Ghione, Franco; Szell, George; Paulik, Anton; Gaubert, Philippe; Heurteur, Fernand; Grevillius, Nils; Ormandy, Eugene; Collingwood, L...

Guido Cantelli Conducts Wagner and Brahms / Philharmonia

1 CD / Testament / 2006-10-10

Works: Richard Wagner: Siegfried; Siegfried Idyll; Johannes Brahms: Symphony no 1 in C minor, Op. 68
Performers: Brain, Dennis [French Horn]
Conductors: Cantelli, Guido
Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

Wagner: The Flying Dutchman / Keilberth, et al

2 CD / Testament / 2006-10-10

Works: Richard Wagner: The Flying Dutchman
Performers: Lustig, Rudolf; Schartel, Elisabeth; Traxel, Josef; Uhde, Hermann; Varnay, Astrid; Weber, Ludwig [Bass Vocal]
Conductors: Keilberth, Joseph
Ensemble: Bayreuth Festival Orchestra

At Bayreuth, Decca and their German subsidiary Teldec had already recorded 'Parsifal' and an unreleased 'Ring' cycle in 1951, and 'Lohengrin' in 1953. During the...continue...

Wagner: Orchestral Excerpts / Toscanini, NBC SO

1 CD / Testament / 2006-07-11

Works: Richard Wagner: The Flying Dutchman; Tannhäuser; Parsifal
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo

"Although I cannot ascertain if Testament's restorations were effected from the best extant sources, they've never sounded cleaner or better defined... Lastly, the original, extended...continue...

Wagner: Die Walküre / Keilberth, Varnay, Brouwenstijn, et al

4 CD / Testament / 2006-06-13

Works: Richard Wagner: Die Walküre
Performers: Brouwenstijn, Gre; Graf, Maria [Mezzo-soprano]; Greindl, Josef; Hotter, Hans; Ilosvay, Maria von; Lammers, Gerda; Milinkovic, Georgine von; Schartel, Elisabeth; Scheppan, Hilde; Varnay, Astrid; Vinay...
Conductors: Keilberth, Joseph
Ensemble: Bayreuth Festival Orchestra

"This is the second release in the much-awaited, almost legendary "missing" Ring from 1955 that was professionally recorded live at Bayreuth and then dumped because...continue...

Wagner: Siegfried / Joseph Keilberth, et al

4 CD / Testament / 2006-04-11

Works: Richard Wagner: Siegfried
Performers: Greindl, Josef; Hollweg, Ilse; Hotter, Hans; Ilosvay, Maria von; Kuen, Paul; Neidlinger, Gustav [Baritone Vocals]; Varnay, Astrid; Windgassen, Wolfgang [Tenor Vocals]
Conductors: Keilberth, Joseph
Ensemble: Bayreuth Festival Chorus

"Magnificent is the only word for it and the stereo definition is more vivid than one dared to expect. This is team-work on an exalted...continue...

Wiener Philharmoniker - live performances / Klemperer

8 CD / Testament / 2005-11-08

Works: Recorded Sound: Ambiance; Applause; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in A major, K 581; Symphony no 41 in C major, K 551 "Jupiter"; Ludwig van Beethoven: Coriolan Overture in...
Performers: Altmann, Volker; Berger, Roland; Cubasch, Christian; Hanak, Hans; Hogner, Gunter; Holetschek, Franz; Lipp, Wilma; Mayerhofer, Karl; Ohlberger, Camillo; Pamperl, Ernst; Prinz, Alfred; Raab, Ferdinand;...
Conductors: Klemperer, Otto
Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

1968, a year of political turmoil in the world, began for Klemperer with a recording and performance in London of the Dresden version of Wagners...continue...

Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel, etc; Wagner / Karajan, et al

1 CD / Testament / 2005-08-09

Works: Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Op. 28; Don Juan, Op. 20; Tod und Verklärung, Op. 24; Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser
Conductors: Karajan, Herbert von
Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

Strauss: Tod und Verklärung, etc; Wagner / Knappertsbusch

1 CD / Testament / 2004-07-01

Works: Richard Strauss: Tod und Verklärung, Op. 24; Don Juan, Op. 20; Richard Wagner: Rienzi; Parsifal
Performers: Treptow, Gunther
Conductors: Knappertsbusch, Hans
Ensemble: Orchestre de la Société du Conservatoire Paris; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Hans Knappertsbusch's posthumous reputation rests mainly on his association with the music of Wagner, Bruckner, Brahms and Strauss. The performances on this disc clearly demonstrate...continue...

Bruckner: Symphony no 3; Wagner / Knappertsbusch, Vienna PO

1 CD / Testament / 2004-06-01

Works: Anton Bruckner: Symphony no 3 in D minor, WAB 103; Richard Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
Conductors: Knappertsbusch, Hans
Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Hans Kappertsbusch's posthumous reputation rests mainly on his association with the music of Wagner, Bruckner, Brahms and Strauss. His involvement in Wagner came at an...continue...

Guido Cantelli - The NBC Broadcast Concerts 1949-1950

4 CD / Testament / 2003-07-01

Works: George Frederick Handel: Der Messias; Johann Sebastian Bach: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248; Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Symphony no 4 in F minor, Op. 36; Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony no 94 in G major, H...
Conductors: Cantelli, Guido
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra

Perhaps the best way to sum up the significance of the performances in Testament's two boxed sets of Guido Cantelli's 1949-1950 NBC Symphony broadcast recordings...continue...

Wagner: Siegfried Idyll, etc; Strauss / André Cluytens, etc

1 CD / Testament / 2003-04-01

Works: Richard Wagner: Siegfried Idyll; Siegfried; Götterdämmerung; Richard Strauss: Don Juan, Op. 20; Feuersnot, opera, Op. 50 (TrV 203)
Conductors: Cluytens, André

Wagner: Overtures, Preludes, Arias / André Cluytens, et al

1 CD / Testament / 2003-04-01

Works: Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Tannhäuser; The Flying Dutchman; Lohengrin; Tristan und Isolde, opera, WWV 90
Performers: Gorr, Rita
Conductors: Cluytens, André

Cluytens came to Strauss even earlier in his career than to Wagner, conducting the Antwerp premiere of 'Salome' in his father's theatre. The opera Strauss...continue...

Wagner: Orchestral Music from Operas / Kempe, Vienna PO

1 CD / Testament / 2003-01-01

Works: Richard Wagner: Lohengrin; Parsifal; Tristan und Isolde, opera, WWV 90
Conductors: Kempe, Rudolf
Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

"Rudolf Kempe's approach to Wagner is sane, meticulous, level-headed, and somewhat restrained. In this program he summons superior playing from the VPO, and his clear...continue...

Wagner: Die Walküre (Act 1) / Klemperer, Cochran, et al

1 CD / Testament / 2001-03-10

Works: Richard Wagner: Die Walküre
Performers: Cochran, William; Dernesch, Helga [Soprano]; Sotin, Hans
Conductors: Klemperer, Otto
Ensemble: New Philharmonia Orchestra

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf - Lieder & Songs 1955-1964

1 CD / Testament / 2001-02-01

Works: Franz Schubert: Claudine von Villa Bella, D 239; Frühlingsglaube, D 686/Op. 20 no 2; Die Vögel, D 691/Op. 172 no 6; Der Jüngling an der Quelle, D 300; Der Erlkönig, D 328; Lullaby...
Performers: Gieseking, Walter; Moore, Gerald [Piano]; Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth

This third volume of Schwarzkopf's unpublished EMI recordings focuses on the major part of the great singer's repertoire - Lieder and song. Composers represented include...continue...

Hans Hotter - Early EMI Recordings - Schubert, Wagner, et al

1 CD / Testament / 2000-12-10

Works: Franz Schubert: Der Wanderer, D 489 (493a)/Op. 4 no 1; Schwanengesang, D 957; Gruppe aus dem Tartarus, D 583/Op. 24 no 1; Meerestille, D 216/Op. 3 no 2; Die schöne Müllerin, D 795/Op. 25; R...
Performers: Hotter, Hans; Moore, Gerald [Piano]; Nordberg, Hermann Von; Raucheisen, Michael
Conductors: Zallinger, Meinhard von; Weldon, George

Birgit Nilsson - Opera Arias - Mozart, Beethoven, Verdi, etc

1 CD / Testament / 2000-11-01

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72; Ah, Perfido!, Op. 65; Carl Maria von Weber: Oberon; Der Freischütz, J 277; Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, opera...
Performers: Nilsson, Birgit [Soprano Vocal]
Conductors: Wallberg, Heinz; Ludwig, Leopold
Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

EMI and Walter Legge were the first to bring Nilsson into the recording studio. In those early sessions, during 1957 and 1958, Nilsson recorded the...continue...

Wagner: Opera Arias & Duets / Nilsson, Hotter, Ludwig

1 CD / Testament / 2000-11-01

Works: Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser; The Flying Dutchman; Lohengrin; Die Walküre
Performers: Hotter, Hans; Nilsson, Birgit [Soprano Vocal]
Conductors: Ludwig, Leopold
Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

These Wagner recordings derive from Nilsson's earliest recording sessions in May 1957, and appear in stereo for the first time with this Testament release. In...continue...

The EMI Record of Singing Vol 3 - 1926-1939

10 CD / Testament / 1999-12-01

Works: Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser; Die Walküre; Lohengrin; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Das Rheingold; The Flying Dutchman; Siegfried; Wesendonck Lieder; Rudolf Wille: Königsballade, ...
Performers: Albanese, Licia; Allin, Norman; Andrésen, Ivar; Angelis, Nazzareno de; Arangi-Lombardi, Giannina; Austral, Florence; Baccaloni, Salvatore; Badia, Conchita; Badini, Ernesto; Baillie, Isobel; Ba...
Conductors: Barbirolli, John; Viebig, Ernst; Heidenreich, Johannes; Seidler-Winkler, Bruno; Weissmann, Frieder; Kun, Cornelius; Dobrindt, Otto; Blech, Leo; Muller, Hans Udo; Orthmann, Erich; Alwin, Carl; Schmals...

Wagner: Götterdämmerung / Hans Knappertsbusch, et al

4 CD / Testament / 1999-09-01

Works: Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Performers: Aldenhoff, Bernd; Höngen, Elisabeth; Ludwig, Hanna; Mödl, Martha; Malaniuk, Ira; Pflanzl, Heinrich; Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth; Siewert, Ruth; Topper, Hertha; Uhde, Hermann; Varnay, Astrid; Web...
Conductors: Knappertsbusch, Hans
Ensemble: Bayreuth Festival Orchestra

"This set... belatedly becomes the most important; no other... makes the drama at once so immediate and so substantial... the most conspicuous recorded example of...continue...

Ludwig Weber - Opera Arias

1 CD / Testament / 1999-05-10

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio), opera, K. 384; Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72; Carl Maria von Weber: Der Freischütz, J 277; ...
Performers: Vocals], Torsten Ralf [Tenor; Weber, Ludwig [Bass Vocal]
Conductors: Ackermann, Otto; Prohaska, Felix; Moralt, Rudolf; Schuchter, Wilhelm; Dobroven, Issay
Ensemble: ; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Wilhelm Furtwängler - Wagner: Tannhäuser Overture, etc

1 CD / Testament / 1998-04-01

Works: Richard Wagner: Lohengrin; Tannhäuser; Siegfried Idyll; Götterdämmerung
Conductors: Furtwängler, Wilhelm

Even critics who reacted against Furtwangler's style in symphonic repertoire acknowledged that he was in his element as an inspired interpreter of Wagner's vast music...continue...

Cornelius, Flotow, et al: Opera Arias / Gottlob Frick

1 CD / Testament / 1998-03-10

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio), opera, K. 384; Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figar...
Performers: Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; Frick, Gottlob; Krukowski, Ernst; Schock, Rudolf [Tenor Vocal]; Wunderlich, Fritz
Conductors: Schuchter, Wilhelm; Gruber, Arthur; Reger, Helmut; Klobucar, Berislav; Matzerath, Otto; Konwitschny, Franz
Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Deutschen Oper Chor und Orchester, Berlin; Graunke Symphony Orchestra; Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie

R. Strauss, Wagner / Wolfgang Sawallisch, Philharmonia

1 CD / Testament / 1997-10-10

Works: Richard Strauss: Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, Op. 60; Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Götterdämmerung
Conductors: Sawallisch, Wolfgang
Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

"Listening to this CD was depressing in the single sense that it reminded me all too vividly how difficult it has become to locate playing...continue...

Rudolf Kempe Conducts Wagner

1 CD / Testament / 1996-01-10

Works: Richard Wagner: The Flying Dutchman; Tannhäuser; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Götterdämmerung
Performers: Unger, Gerhard
Conductors: Kempe, Rudolf

Mario del Monaco - Opera Arias

1 CD / Testament / 1996-01-01

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, opera; Otello; Ruggero Leoncavallo: La bohème, opera; Pagliacci, opera; Giacomo Puccini: Manon Lescaut; Turandot; Pietro Mascagni: L'Amico Fritz; Cavalleria rusticana, op...
Performers: Del Monaco, Mario
Conductors: Quadri, Argeo; Benintende-Neglia, Tomaso
Ensemble: Milan Symphony Orchestra

Handel, Bach, Purcell, Gluck, Wagner / Kirsten Flagstad

1 CD / Testament / 1996-01-01

Works: George Frederick Handel: Dank Sei Dir, Herr (spurious); MEDLEY; Der Messias; Johann Sebastian Bach: Saint Matthew Passion, BWV 244; Henry Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Z 626; Christoph Willibald Gluck: O...
Performers: Brown, Stewart; Flagstad, Kirsten; Jones, Geraint; Parikian, Manoug; Svanholm, Set [Tenor Vocals]; Thalben-Ball, George, Sir [Composer/Organ]
Conductors: Braithwaite, Warwick; Fistoulari, Anatole; Susskind, Walter; Böhm, Karl
Ensemble: ; Philharmonia Orchestra