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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

 

Tristan und Isolde on CD

Leonard Bernstein (1981)

Leonard Bernstein Tristan

Hildegard Behrens, Peter Hofmann, Bernd Weikl, Hans Sotin, Yvonne Minton, Heribert Steinbach, Thomas Moser, Heinz Zednik, Raimund Grumbach
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Karl Böhm (1966)

cover

Birgit Nilsson, Wolfgang Windgassen, Christa Ludwig, Martti Talvela
Live from Bayreuther Festspiele/Bayreuth Festival
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Wilhelm Furtwängler (1952)

cover

Kirsten Flagstad, Ludwig Suthaus, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Josef Greindl, Rudolf Schock, Edgar Evans, Blanche Thebom
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Carlos Kleiber (1982)

René Kollo, Margaret Price, Brigitte Fassbaender, Kurt Moll, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Werner Götz, Anton Dermota
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Christian Thielemann (2003)

Deborah Voigt, Thomas Moser, Robert Holl, Peter Weber, Markus Nieminen, Petra Lang
Live from Wiener Staatsoper
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Antonio Pappano (2005)

cover

Placido Domingo, Nina Stemme, Mihoko Fujimura, René Pape, Rolando Villazón, Ian Bostridge, Olaf Bär
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Georg Solti (1960)

cover

Fritz Uhl, Birgit Nilsson, Regina Resnik, Tom Krause, Arnold van Mill, Waldemar Kmentt, Ernst Kozub, Peter Klein
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Karl Elmendorff (1928)

cover

Gunnar Graarud, Nanny Larsen-Todsen, Ivar F. Andresen
Live from Bayreuther Festspielhaus
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Herbert von Karajan

Jon Vickers, Helga Dernesch, Christa Ludwig, Walter Berry
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Fritz Reiner (1936)

Fritz Reiner Tristan 1936 cover

Lauritz Melchior, Kirsten Flagstad, Herbert Janssen, Emanuel List
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