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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

 

Das Rheingold on CD

Clemens Krauss, Bayreuther Festspiele

Hans Hotter, Hermann Uhde, Gerhard Stolze, Erich Witte, Gustav Neidlinger, Paul Kuen, Ludwig Weber, Josef Greindl
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Georg Solti, Vienna Philharmonic

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George London, Set Svanholm, Gustav Neidlinger, Paul Kuen, Kirsten Flagstad, Eberhard Wächter, Jean Madeira
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Marek Janowski, Staatskapelle Dresden

Theo Adam, Peter Schreier, Siegmund Nimsgern, Matti Salminen, Yvonne Minton, Lucia Popp
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Pierre Boulez, Bayreuther Festspiele

Donald McIntyre, Martin Egel, Siegfried Jerusalem, Heinz Zednik, Hermann Becht, Helmut Pampuch, Matti Salminen, Fritz Hübner, Hanna Schwarz, Carmen Reppel, Ortrun Wenkel
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James Levine, Metropolitan Opera

James Morris, Siegfried Lorenz, Mark Baker, Siegfried Jerusalem, Ekkehard Wlaschiha, Heinz Zednik, Kurt Moll, Jan-Hendrik Rootering, Christa Ludwig, Mari Anne Häggander, Birgitta Svendén
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Daniel Barenboim, Bayreuther Festspiele

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John Tomlinson, Günter von Kannen, Bodo Brinkmann, Kurt Schreibmayer, Graham Clark, Helmut Pampuch, Matthias Hölle, Philip Kang, Linda Finnie, Eva Johansson, Birgitta Svendén
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Hartmut Haenchen / Nederlands Philh. Orkest

Rheingold Haenchen cover

Albert Dohmen, Geert Smits, Martin Homrich, Chris Merritt, Werner Van Mechelen, Graham Clark, Frode Olsen, Mario Luperi, Doris Soffel, Michaela Kaune, Anne Gjevang
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Karl Böhm / Bayreuther Festspiele

Theo Adam, Wolfgang Windgassen, Gustav Neidlinger, Erwin Wohlfahrt, Martti Talvela, Gerd Nienstedt
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Wilhelm Furtwängler / RAI Orchestra 1953

Ferdinand Frantz, Alfred Poell, Lorenz Fehenberger, Wolfgang Windgassen, Gustav Neidlinger, Julius Patzak, Josef Greindl, Gottlob Frick, Ira Malaniuk, Elisabeth Grümmer, Ruth Siewert, Hilde Rössel-Majdan
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Wolfgang Sawallisch, Bayerische Staatsoper

Robert Hale, Kurt Moll, Robert Tear, Helmut Pampuch
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Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker

Fischer-Dieskau, Stolze, Kelemen, Talvela, Ridderbusch
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