DVD of the month

David Alden's production of Tannhäuser at Bayerische Staatsoper, München

Recording of the month

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

Tristan und Isolde (CD): Elmendorff, Gunnar Graarud, Nanny Larsen-Todsen, Ivar F. Andrésen

Conductor: Karl Elmendorff

Tristan: Gunnar Graarud
Isolde: Nanny Larsen-Todsen
Brangäne: Anny Helm
König Marke: Ivar F. Andrésen (aka Ivar Andresen)
Kurwenal: Rudolf Bockelmann
Melot: Joachim Sattler
Seemann: Gustav Rodin
Hirt: Hans Beer

Live (abridged) recording from the Bayreuth Festival, 1928

Bonus feature: Ernest Newman talks about leitmotifs in Tristan und Isolde, and excerpts with Walter Widdop and Göta Ljungberg (Tristan, act 3)

Listen to a short excerpt with Ivar F. Andresen (the link will open your default MP3 player)

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