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DVD of the month

The Copenhagen Ring - winner of The Gramophone Award 2009 (DVD)

Recording of the month

Kirsten Flagstad: Volume 1, The Early Recordings 1914-1941

 


Important years in Richard Wagner's life

1813 born in Leipzig
1834 Die Feen completed
1843 Holländer premiere
1845 Tannhäuser premiere
1850 Lohengrin premiere
1852 text of Rheingold and Walküre
1854 Das Rheingold completed
1856 Die Walküre completed
1859 Tristan completed
1865 Tristan premiere in Munich
1868 Meistersinger premiere
1869 Das Rheingold premiere
1870 Die Walküre premiere
1871 Siegfried completed
1874 Götterdämmerung completed
1876 First Festival in Bayreuth
1882 Parsifal premiere
1883 Wagner dies in Venice

 

Lohengrin on CD

Rudolf Kempe / Wiener Philharmoniker

Jess Thomas, Elisabeth Grümmer, Gottlob Frick, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Christa Ludwig, Otto Wiener
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Georg Solti / Wiener Philharmoniker

Plácido Domingo, Jessye Norman, Hans Sotin, Eva Randova, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Siegmund Nimsgern
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André Cluytens / Bayreuth

Sándor Kónya, Leonie Rysanek, Astrid Varnay, Eberhard Wächter, Keith Engen
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Daniel Barenboim / Staatskapelle Berlin

Lohengrin cover Barenboim

René Pape, Peter Seiffert, Emily Magee, Falk Struckmann, Deborah Polaski, Roman Trekel

Joseph Keilberth / Bayreuth

Wolfgang Windgassen, Josef Greindl, Eleanor Steber, Hermann Uhde, Astrid Varnay

Erich Leinsdorf / Metropolitan

Lohengrin cover Leinsdorf

Lauritz Melchior, Astrid Varnay, Kerstin Thorborg, Norman Cordon, Alexander Sved

     
     

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