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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

Gluck: Iphigénie in Aulis

2 CD / Gall Import / 2010-02-23

Works: Christoph Willibald Gluck: Iphigénie en Aulide; Carl Maria von Weber: Euryanthe, J 291/Op. 81; Vincenzo Bellini: Norma, opera; Gioachino Rossini: Guglielmo Tell; Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser
Performers: Blatter, Johanna; Clam, Leopold; Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; Greindl, Josef; Krebs, Helmut; Musial, Martha; Reith, Maria; Suthaus, Ludwig
Conductors: Rother, Artur; Buschkötter, Wilhelm; Gaebel, Kurt; Walter, Fried; Ludwig, Leopold

Max Lorenz Live

1 CD / Preiser / 2010-01-12

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Ein Maskenball; Aida, opera; Othello; Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Siegfried; Götterdämmerung; Parsifal; Hans Pfitzner: Palestrina
Performers: Ahlersmeyer, Mathieu; Alsen, Herbert; Ilitsch, Daniza; Kamann, Karl; Konetzni, Anny; Konetzni, Hilde [Soprano Vocals]; Lorenz, Max; Manowarda, Josef von; Nikolaidi, Elena; Vocals], Paul Schoffler [Ba...
Conductors: Böhm, Karl; Ludwig, Leopold; Furtwängler, Wilhelm; Krips, Josef; Kleiber, Erich; Reichwein, Leopold; Kempe, Rudolf

This collection of scenes from works by Verdi, Wagner and Pfitzner presents the singing actor Max Lorenz in live recordings from the years 1937 to...continue...

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...

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...

Cult Operas of the 1970s: Mozart; Beethoven; Weber; etc. / Hamburg State Opera [10 DVD]

11 DVD Video / Arthaus DVD / 2008-10-28

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72; Carl Maria von Weber: Der F...
Performers: Adam, Theo; Ahlin, Cvetka; Blankenburg, Heinz; Blankenburg, Heinz Horst; Blankenheim, Toni; Boese, Ursula; Cassilly, Richard; Deutekom, Christina; Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; Fliether, Herbert; Flores...
Conductors: Schmidt-Isserstedt, Hans; Stein, Horst; Ludwig, Leopold; Mackerras, Charles, Sir; Janowski, Marek; Maderna, Bruno; Kuntzsch, Matthias
Ensemble: Hamburg State Opera Chorus; Hamburg State Opera Orchestra; NDR Children's Chorus

This DVD box set contains ten historical studio productions from the Hamburg State Opera....continue...
Run Time: 1320 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: NTSC, 4:3, Color
Sound Format(s): LPCM Mono,
Subtitles: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian
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Beethoven: Fidelio / Ludwig/Hamburg Phil. State Orch., Popp, Wiemann, Adam, Cassilly, Silja [DVD]

1 DVD Video / Arthaus DVD / 2007-04-24

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72
Performers: Adam, Theo; Cassilly, Richard; Popp, Lucia; Silja, Anja; Sotin, Hans; Wiemann, Ernst; Wohlfahrt, Erwin
Conductors: Ludwig, Leopold
Ensemble: Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra; Hamburg State Opera Chorus

The latest in this series of vintage Hamburg Opera films focuses on Beethoven's only opera in another staging by Rolf Liebermann, regarded as "one of...continue...
Run Time: 115 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: NTSC, 4:3, Color
Sound Format(s): Mono,
Subtitles: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian
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Wagner: Die Meistersinger / Ludwig/Hamburg Phil. State Orch., Giorgio Tozzi, Toni Blankenheim, Richard Cassilly, Arlene Saunders [2 DVD]

2 DVD Video / Arthaus DVD / 2007-02-27

Works: Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Performers: Blankenheim, Toni; Cassilly, Richard; Saunders, Arlene; Tozzi, Giorgio; Unger, Gerhard; Wiemann, Ernst
Conductors: Ludwig, Leopold
Ensemble: Hamburg State Opera Chorus; Hamburg State Opera Orchestra

"I can't imagine living with only one version of Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, but when in the future I want to bask in the humour,...continue...
Run Time: 240 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: NTSC, 4:3, Color
Sound Format(s): Mono,
Subtitles: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian
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Weber: Der Freischutz / Ludwig/Hamburg Philharmonic State Orch., Minetti, Saunders, Kozub, Mathis, Frick [DVD]

1 DVD Video / Arthaus DVD / 2007-01-30

Works: Carl Maria von Weber: Der Freischütz, J 277
Performers: Frick, Gottlob; Grundheber, Franz; Kozub, Ernst; Krause, Tom; Mathis, Edith; Minetti, Bernhard; Saunders, Arlene; Sotin, Hans
Conductors: Ludwig, Leopold
Ensemble: Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra

In June and July 1967 the opera ensemble toured North America, with visits to the World Exposition in Montreal (Canada) and New York. In addition...continue...
Run Time: 123 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: NTSC, 4:3, Color
Sound Format(s): Mono,
Subtitles: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian
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Wagner, Schubert / Walter, Ludwig, Nilsson, Hotter, Moore

1 CD / Archipel / 2006-05-01

Works: Richard Wagner: Opera(s); Franz Schubert: Lied(er)
Performers: Hotter, Hans; Moore, Gerald [Piano]; Nilsson, Birgit
Conductors: Walter, Bruno; Ludwig, Leopold
Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra; Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

A unique document remembering two great stars of the Wagner Opera....continue...

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf - The Beginning of a Legend

2 CD / Italian Discographic Institute / 2005-01-10

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Alzira; Requiem Mass; Carl Loewe: Der Feind (Der Marsch), for voice & piano, Op. 145/2; Carl Maria von Weber: Abu Hassan, J 106; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem S...
Performers: Ahlgrimm, Isolde; Furtwängler, Wilhelm; Glawitsch, Rupert; Hoefermeyer, W.; Klein, Peter; Piltti, Lea; Raucheisen, Michael; Reznicek, Hans; Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth; Seefried, Irmgard
Conductors: Steiner, Heinrich; Ludwig, Leopold; Moralt, Rudolf; Krips, Josef; Krauss, Clemens; Karajan, Herbert von; Furtwängler, Wilhelm; Rossi, Mario; De Sabata, Victor

Wagner: Tanhauser / Rother, Fischer-Dieskau, Suthaus, et al

3 CD / Gebhardt / 2000-06-28

Works: Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser; Lohengrin; Eugen d'Albert: Tiefland; Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, opera
Performers: Blatter, Johanna; Buchner, Paula; Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; Greindl, Josef; Hiller, Wilhelm; Musial, Martha; Nissen, Hans-Heinz; Suthaus, Ludwig; Zimmermann, Alice; Zimmermann, Erich
Conductors: Ludwig, Leopold; Schuler, Johannes

Four Famous Sopranos of the Past

1 CD / Preiser / 1999-05-01

Works: Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos, Op 60; Der Rosenkavalier; Giacomo Puccini: Tosca; Turandot; La bohème; Giuseppe Verdi: Un ballo in maschera; Aida, opera; Ave Maria; Ludwig van Beethoven: F...
Performers: Berger, Erna [Soprano vocals]; Braun, Helena; Lemnitz, Tiana; Ranczak, Hildegarde; Ursuleac, Viorica
Conductors: Krauss, Clemens; Schmidt, Franz; Meyrowitz, Selmar; Ludwig, Leopold; Steeger, Gerhard; Hollreiser, Heinrich

Puccini: Tosca / Ranczak, Rosvaenge, Hann, et al

2 CD / Preiser / 1998-06-01

Works: Giacomo Puccini: Tosca; Il tabarro (The Cloak), opera
Performers: Ahlersmeyer, Mathieu; Anders, Peter; Booth, Margery; Hann, Georg; Nissen, Hanns-Heinz; Pick, Hanns; Ranczak, Hildegard; Rosvaenge, Helge; Strienz, Wilhelm; Triller, Hans; Zimmermann, Erich
Conductors: Ludwig, Leopold; Krauss, Clemens
Ensemble: Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra; Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra