Wagner, Richard > Windgassen, Wolfgang [Tenor Vocals]

Martha Mödl: The Portrait of a Legend / Wagner, Strauss, Fortner, Reimann

2 CD / Profil Edition Gunter Hanssler / 2012-04-24

Works: Richard Wagner: Rienzi; Tristan und Isolde; Wesendonck Lieder; Die Walküre; Götterdämmerung; Richard Strauss: Elektra; Wolfgang Fortner: Bluthochzeit; Aribert Reimann: Melusine; Pyotr ...
Performers: Greindl, Josef; Hoffmann, Grace; Mödl, Martha; Neidlinger, Gustav [Baritone Vocals]; Raucheisen, Michael; Ronisch, Rosemarie; Rose, Elisabeth; Steger, Ingrid; Suthaus, Ludwig; Topper, Hertha; Wi...
Conductors: Hollreiser, Heinrich; Keilberth, Joseph; Leitner, Ferdinand; Sebastian, Georges; Suitner, Otmar; Peters, Reinhard; Bareza, Niksa

Never released before recordings from 1950 - 1982 Wilhelm Furtwängler aptly referred to her as a "magic box", because her voice changed with every character...continue...

The Hero of New Beyreuth / Wolfgang Windgassen, tenor (rec. 1950 - 1958)

4 CD / Red/membran / 2011-11-21

Works: Carl Maria von Weber: Der Freischütz (The Marksman); Eugen d'Albert: Tiefland (Lowlands); Richard Wagner: Der Fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman); Rienzi; Die Meistersinger von Nü...
Performers: Czubok, Engelbert; Fischer, Res; Greindl, Josef; Hann, Georg; Hoffmann, Grace; Kuen, Paul; Kupper, Annelies; Modl, Martha; Muller, Maria; Nilsson, Birgit [Soprano Vocal]; Uhde, Hermann; Varnay, Astri...
Conductors: Rother, Artur; Wetzelsberger, Bertil; Fricsay, Ferenc; Leitner, Ferdinand; Rischner, Alfons; Ludwig, Leopold; Jochum, Eugen; Kraus, Richard; Keilberth, Joseph; Weigert, Hermann; Sawallisch, Wolfgang;...
Ensemble: ; Billiards Quintet

Documents of a singing career: Annelies Kupper

1 CD / Preiser / 2011-05-10

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Figaros Hochzeit; Don Giovanni; Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser; Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, opera; Eugen d'Albert: Die toten Augen; Tiefland; Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Die tote Sta...
Performers: Bohme, Kurt [Bass Vocal]; Fehenberger, Lorenz; Kupper, Annelies; Reinmar, Hans; Schlemm, Anny; Windgassen, Wolfgang [Tenor Vocals]
Conductors: Leitner, Ferdinand; Sandberg, Herbert; Heger, Robert; Kraus, Richard; Solti, Sir Georg; Reinshagen, Victor; Rother, Artur; Lehmann, Fritz

Annelies Kupper (1906-1987) was born in Poland. She was a schoolteacher while at the same time studying voice. She launched her stage career at the...continue...

Martha Modl

2 CD / Preiser / 2010-06-08

Works: Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orpheus und Eurydike; Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72; Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth; Don Carlos; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Richard Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder; Tristan u...
Performers: Blatter, Johanna; Mödl, Martha; Schock, Rudolf [Tenor Vocal]; Windgassen, Wolfgang [Tenor Vocals]
Conductors: Löwlein, Hans; Rother, Artur; Schmidt-Isserstedt, Hans; Keilberth, Joseph; Knappertsbusch, Hans; Schuchter, Wilhelm

Wagner: Siegfried

4 CD / Gall Import / 2010-02-23

Works: Richard Wagner: Siegfried
Performers: Greindl, Josef; Hotter, Hans; Ilosvay, Maria von; Kuen, Paul; Neidlinger, Gustav [Baritone Vocals]; Streich, Rita; Varnay, Astrid; Windgassen, Wolfgang [Tenor Vocals]
Conductors: Krauss, Clemens

Wagner: Götterdämmerung

4 CD / Gall Import / 2010-02-23

Works: Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Performers: Greindl, Josef; Hinsch-Grondahl, Natalie; Ilosvay, Maria von; Litz, Gisela; Malaniuk, Ira; Neidlinger, Gustav [Baritone Vocals]; Plumacher, Hetty; Resnik, Regina; Uhde, Hermann; Varnay, Astrid; Windg...
Conductors: Krauss, Clemens

Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg [Excerpts]

2 CD / Gall Import / 2010-02-23

Works: Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Performers: Baumann, Ralph; Gonszar, Rudolf; Graf, Uta; Herrmann, Josef; Hoernicke, Richard; Holm, Richard; Jockel, Robert; Klomser, Herbert; Kunz, Roland; Kupper, Annelies; Liebl, Karl; Misske, Gerhard; Mueller...
Conductors: Bamberger, Carl; Leitner, Ferdinand

Dokumente einer Sängerkarriere - Wolfgang Windgassen

1 CD / Preiser / 2009-11-10

Works: Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser; Die Walküre; Siegfried; Götterdämmerung; Eugen d'Albert: Tiefland; Albert Lortzing: Der Wildschütz
Performers: Czubok, Engelbert; Hann, Georg; Varnay, Astrid; Windgassen, Wolfgang [Tenor Vocals]; Wissmann, Lore
Conductors: Heger, Robert; Leitner, Ferdinand; Ludwig, Leopold; Rother, Artur

Wolfgang Windgassen's name is inseparably linked with the Bayreuth Festival and Wieland Wagner. He first performed there in 1951 in a production of Parsifal. A...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: Das Rheingold / Joseph Keilberth, et al

2 CD / Myto Records Import / 2009-09-08

Works: Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold
Performers: Borkh, Inge; Bugarinovic, Melanie; Faulhaber, Werner; Greindl, Josef; Kuen, Paul; Ludwig, Hanna; Malaniuk, Ira; Neidlinger, Gustav [Baritone Vocals]; Topper, Hertha; Uhde, Hermann; Weber, Ludwig [Bas...
Conductors: Keilberth, Joseph
Ensemble: Bayreuth Festival Orchestra

Wagner: Parsifal / Leitner, Windgassen, Cramer, Mödl, Neidlinger, Sentpaul, et al

4 CD / Profil Edition Gunter Hanssler / 2009-07-28

Works: Richard Wagner: Parsifal
Performers: Bauer, Paul; Cramer, Heinz; Fischer-Sandt, Siegfried; Modl, Martha; Moll, Olga; Neidlinger, Gustav [Baritone Vocals]; Plumacher, Hetty; Rieser, Karl; Rohr, Otto van; Sailer, Friederike; Schabo, Toni;...
Conductors: Leitner, Ferdinand
Ensemble: Paris Opéra Orchestra

Vocal Legends 7

1 CD / ARS Productions / 2009-02-13

Works: Richard Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder; Tristan und Isolde; Siegfried; Götterdämmerung
Performers: Topper, Hertha; Varnay, Astrid; Windgassen, Wolfgang [Tenor Vocals]
Conductors: Ludwig, Leopold; Weigert, Herman

Astrid Varnay made her sensational debut at the Metropolitan Opera on December 6, 1941 at a broadcast performance singing Sieglinde in Wagner's Die Walkure, substituting...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...

Lisa Della Casa - Recital - Mozart, Wagner, Strauss, etc

1 CD / Orfeo / 2009-01-30

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; Idomeneo; Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Gottfried von Einem: Dantons Tod; Richard Strauss: Capriccio; Arabella
Performers: Casa, Lisa della; Dermota, Anton [Tenor Vocals]; Dickie, Murray; Hammond, Hugh Beresford; Krenn, Werner; Madeira, Jean; Rothenberger, Anneliese; Wiener, Otto; Windgassen, Wolfgang [Tenor Vocals]
Conductors: Böhm, Karl; Krombholc, Jaroslav; Wallberg, Heinz; Krips, Josef; Prêtre, Georges; Keilberth, Joseph

Recording information: Vienna State Opera House....continue...

Ultimate Wagner - Essential Masterpieces

5 CD / Decca / 2008-08-26

Works: Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold; Die Walküre; Siegfried; Götterdämmerung; Tristan und Isolde, opera, WWV 90; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Parsifal
Performers: Adam, Theo; Bode, Hannelore; Browner, Alison; Burmeister, Annelies; Cervena, Sona; Cox, Jean; Dene, Jozsef; Dernesch, Helga [Soprano]; Esser, Hermin; Estes, Simon [Bass Baritone Vocals]; Greindl, Jos...
Conductors: Böhm, Karl; Solti, Sir Georg; Varviso, Silvio; Levine, James
Ensemble: ; Bayreuth Festival Orchestra; Vienna 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: The Great Operas from the Bayreuth Festival / Sawallisch, Nilsson, Rysanek, Silja, et al

33 CD / Decca Import / 2008-06-17

Works: Richard Wagner: The Flying Dutchman; Tannhäuser; Lohengrin; Tristan und Isolde, opera, WWV 90; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Das Rheingold; Die Walküre; Siegfried; Götterdä...
Performers: Adam, Theo; Appel, Wolfgang; Bauer, Hartmut; Bode, Hannelore; Bohme, Kurt [Bass Vocal]; Browner, Alison; Bumbry, Grace; Burmeister, Annelies; Cervena, Sona; Cox, Jean; Crass, Franz; Dene, Jozsef; Der...
Conductors: Sawallisch, Wolfgang; Böhm, Karl; Varviso, Silvio; Levine, James
Ensemble: ; Bayreuth Festival Orchestra

A special, limited edition 33-CD box set containing all of Wagner's operas from 'The Flying Dutchman' (1841) to his final masterpiece 'Parsifal' (1882) in performances...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...

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: 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...

Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen [Box Set]

13 CD / Orfeo / 2005-07-28

Works: Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold; Die Walküre; Siegfried; Götterdämmerung
Performers: Brouwenstijn, Gre; Greindl, Josef; Herwig, Alfons; Hollweg, Ilse; Hotter, Hans; Ilosvay, Maria von; Kamps, Luise Charlotte; Kuen, Paul; Lammers, Gerda; Lenchner, Paula; Madeira, Jean; Milinkovic, Geo...
Conductors: Knappertsbusch, Hans

Paperback Opera - Wagner: Flying Dutchman / Fricsay, et al

2 CD / Preiser / 2005-03-01

Works: Richard Wagner: The Flying Dutchman
Performers: Greindl, Josef; Kupper, Annelies; Metternich, Josef; Vocals], Ernst Haefliger [Tenor; Windgassen, Wolfgang [Tenor Vocals]
Conductors: Fricsay, Ferenc
Ensemble: Berlin RIAS Chamber Chorus

Wagner: Tannhäuser

3 CD / Orfeo / 2004-07-29

Works: Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser
Performers: Blankenheim, Toni; Brouwenstijn, Gre; Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; Greindl, Josef; Herwig, Alfons; Horn, Volker; Stolze, Gerhard; Traxel, Josef; Wilfert, Herta; Windgassen, Wolfgang [Tenor Vocals]
Conductors: Cluytens, André

Trio - Wagner: Tannhäuser / Gerdes, Nilsson, Adam, et al

3 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 2002-09-10

Works: Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser
Performers: Adam, Theo; Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; Hirte, Klaus; Laubenthal, Horst R.; Lenz, Friedrich; Nilsson, Birgit [Soprano Vocal]; Profe, Helga; Sotin, Hans; Windgassen, Wolfgang [Tenor Vocals]
Conductors: Gerdes, Otto
Ensemble: Berlin Deutsche Oper Orchestra

Merit - Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen / Knappertsbusch

13 CD / Music & Arts / 2002-05-01

Works: Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold; Die Walküre; Siegfried; Götterdämmerung
Performers: Brouwenstijn, Gre; Greindl, Josef; Herwig, Alfons; Hollweg, Ilse; Hotter, Hans; Ilosvay, Maria von; Kamps, Luise Charlotte; Kuen, Paul; Lammers, Gerda; Lenchner, Paula; Madeira, Jean; Milinkovic, Geo...
Conductors: Knappertsbusch, Hans
Ensemble: Bayreuth Festival Chorus; Bayreuth Festival Orchestra

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'...continue...

Recitals - An Evening with Birgit Nilsson Vol 1

1 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2000-08-15

Works: Richard Wagner: Lohengrin; Tristan und Isolde, opera, WWV 90; Giacomo Puccini: Turandot
Performers: Corelli, Franco; Uhde, Hermann; Varnay, Astrid; Windgassen, Wolfgang [Tenor Vocals]
Conductors: Jochum, Eugen; Böhm, Karl
Ensemble: ; Bayreuth Festival Orchestra

Great Tenors of the Century - Cura, Seiffert, Alagna, et al

1 CD / Teldec / 2000-03-07

Works: Giacomo Puccini: Turandot; Tosca; La bohème; Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72; Jacques Offenbach: Gaîté Parisienne; Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; La traviata; Richard Wagner: Si...
Performers: Alagna, Roberto; Anders, Peter; Araiza, Francisco [Tenor Vocals]; Bergonzi, Carlo; Boutet, Benoit; Carreras, Jose [Tenor Vocal]; Caruso, Enrico; Clark, Graham [Tenor]; Cottone, Salvatore; Cura, Jose;...
Conductors: Domingo, Placido; Harnoncourt, Nikolaus; Nagano, Kent; Viotti, Marcello; Rizzi, Carlo; Barenboim, Daniel; Buckley, Emerson; Santi, Nello; Pradella, Massimo; Scaglia, Ferruccio; de Fabritiis, Oliviero...

Wagner: Tannhäuser / Sawallisch, Windgassen, de los Angeles

3 CD / Opera D'Oro / 1998-10-20

Works: Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser
Performers: Adam, Theo; Bumbry, Grace; Crass, Franz; de los Angeles, Victoria; Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; Gardelli, Else-Margrete; Greindl, Josef; Paskuda, Georg; Stolze, Gerhard; Windgassen, Wolfgang [Tenor Voc...
Conductors: Sawallisch, Wolfgang
Ensemble: Bayreuth Festival Orchestra

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde / Böhm, Nilsson, Windgassen

3 CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 1997-11-11

Works: Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, opera, WWV 90
Performers: Heater, Claude; Ludwig, Christa; Nienstedt, Gerd; Nilsson, Birgit [Soprano Vocal]; Schreier, Peter; Talvela, Martti; Wachter, Eberhard; Windgassen, Wolfgang [Tenor Vocals]; Wohlfahrt, Erwin
Conductors: Böhm, Karl

Penguin Guide
...the performance glowes with intensity from beginning to end, carried through in the longest spans. Birgit Nilsson sings the Liebestod at the end of...continue...

Wagner: Siegfried / Solti, et al

4 CD / PolyGram Import / 1997-10-14

Works: Richard Wagner: Siegfried
Performers: Bohme, Kurt [Bass Vocal]; Hoffgen, Marga [Contralto Vocals]; Hotter, Hans; Neidlinger, Gustav [Baritone Vocals]; Nilsson, Birgit [Soprano Vocal]; Stolze, Gerhard; Sutherland, Joan, Dame; Wagner, Rich...
Conductors: Solti, Sir Georg
Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Penguin Guide
Solti's array of singers could hardly be bettered. Windgassen is at the very peak of his form, lyrical as well as heroic. Hotter has...continue...

Wagner: Gotterdammerung / Wolfgang Windgassen, Birgit Nilsson, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gottlob Frick / Christa Ludwig and Dame Gwyneth Jones

4 CD / Decca / 1997-10-14

Works: Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Performers: Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; Frick, Gottlob; Guy, Maureen; Hoffmann, Grace; Jones, Gwyneth, Dame [Soprano Vocal]; Ludwig, Christa; Neidlinger, Gustav [Baritone Vocals]; Nilsson, Birgit [Soprano Vocal];...
Conductors: Solti, Sir Georg
Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Vienna State Opera Chorus

BBC Music Magazine
Götterdämmerung has moments of unprecedented savagery, even by Wagnerian standards, and the only conductor to get them brutally right is Solti. In Birgit...continue...

Wagner: The Best of the Ring / Böhm, Nilsson, Rysanek, et al

2 CD / Philips / 1996-04-09

Works: Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold; Die Walküre; Siegfried; Götterdämmerung
Performers: Adam, Theo; Burmeister, Annelies; Cervena, Sona; Dernesch, Helga [Soprano]; Esser, Hermin; Greindl, Josef; Hesse, Ruth; Hopf, Gertraud; King, James [Vocals]; Mastilovic, Danica; Neidlinger, Gustav [B...
Conductors: Böhm, Karl