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Brilliant Opera Collection - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde / Furtwängler, Flagstad, et al

4 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2009-07-14

Works: Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Performers: Davies, Rhydderch; Evans, Edgar; Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; Flagstad, Kirsten; Greindl, Josef; Schock, Rudolf; Suthaus, Ludwig; Thebom, Blanche
Conductors: Furtwängler, Wilhelm
Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra; Royal Opera House Covent Garden Chorus

This first recording made by EMI in 1952 for the new LP format and produced by the legendary Walter Legge was the first major recording...continue...

Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen - Historical Recordings 1926-1932 Vol 1 / Barbirolli, et al

4 CD / Gala / 2008-10-04

Works: Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold; Die Walküre; Siegfried
Conductors: ; Barbirolli, John, Sir; Alwin, Karl
Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra; Royal Opera House Covent Garden Chorus; Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra; Vienna State Opera Chorus; Vienna State Opera Orchestra

"To hear these singers tear into their parts with gusto and unrestrained theatricality is to enter another time. The god-like majesty of Schorr's Wotan, the...continue...

Best Classics 100 Vol 2

6 CD / EMI Classics / 2006-08-29

Works: Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Richard Wagner: Die Walküre; Lohengrin; Tristan und Isolde, opera, WWV 90; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Carl Orff: Carmina burana; Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: ...
Performers: Adni, Daniel [Piano]; Alexeev, Dmitri; Andre, Maurice; Argerich, Martha [Piano]; Bennett, Mark [Trumpet]; Bennett, William; Brown, Iona; Byzantine, Julian; Caballé, Montserrat; Callas, Maria; ...
Conductors: Ozawa, Seiji; Jansons, Mariss; Muti, Riccardo; Marriner, Sir Neville; Sawallisch, Wolfgang; Previn, Andre; Rattle, Simon, Sir; Bernstein, Leonard; Temirkanov, Yuri; Prêtre, Georges; Karajan, Her...
Ensemble: ; Academy of St. Martin in the Fields; Bath Festival Orchestra; Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra; Bavarian State Orchestra; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Berlin Symphony Orchestra; Boston Symphony ...

Wagner: Gotterdammerung Act II, etc / Beecham, et al

2 CD / Guild / 2006-02-01

Works: Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung; Die Walküre; Siegfried
Performers: Habich, Eduard; Janssen, Herbert; Laubenthal, Horst R.; Leider, Frida; Marherr, Elfriede; Melchior, Lauritz; Nezadal, Maria; Schorr, Friedrich; Thorborg, Kerstin; Vocals], Emanuel List [Bass; Weber, ...
Conductors: Beecham, Thomas, Sir; Blech, Leo
Ensemble: Berlin State Opera Orchestra; Royal Opera House Covent Garden Chorus; Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra

Here is an essential release for anyone who loves great Wagnerian singing and the conducting art of Sir Thomas Beecham. By the time of this...continue...

Wagner: Tannhäuser / Sinopoli, Domingo, Studer, Schmidt

3 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 1989-10-10

Works: Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser
Performers: Baltsa, Agnes; Bieber, Clemens; Bonney, Barbara; Domingo, Placido; Pell, William; Rydl, Kurt [Bass Vocals]; Salminen, Matti; Schmidt, Andreas [Baritone Vocals]; Studer, Cheryl
Conductors: Sinopoli, Giuseppe
Ensemble: Royal Opera House Covent Garden Chorus