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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

 

Die Walküre on CD

Georg Solti / Wiener Philharmoniker

James King, Régine Crespin, Hans Hotter, Birgit Nilsson, Gottlob Frick, Christa Ludwig, Helga Dernesch, Brigitte Fassbaender
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Pierre Boulez / Bayreuther Festspiele

Peter Hofmann, Jeannine Altmeyer, Gwyneth Jones, Donald McIntyre, Matti Salminen, Hanna Schwarz, Carmen Reppel, Gabriele Schnaut
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Erich Leinsdorf / London Symphony Orchestra

Jon Vickers, Gré Brouwenstijn, George London, Birgit Nilsson, David Ward, Rita Gorr, Marie Collier, Julia Malyon, Margreta Elkins, Joan Edwards, Judith Pierce
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James Levine / Metropolitan Opera

Gary Lakes, Jessye Norman, James Morris, Hildegard Behrens, Kurt Moll, Christa Ludwig, Reinhild Runkel
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Daniel Barenboim / Bayreuth Festival

Poul Elming, Nadine Secunde, Anne Evans, John Tomlinson, Matthias Hölle, Linda Finnie, Eva Johansson, Ruth Floeren, Shirley Close
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Marek Janowski / Staatskapelle Dresden

Siegfried Jerusalem, Jessye Norman, Theo Adam, Jeannine Altmeyer, Kurt Moll, Yvonne Minton, Eva-Maria Bundschuh, Cheryl Studer, Ortrun Wenkel, Anne Gjevang
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Karl Böhm / Bayreuther Festspiele

Theo Adam, Birgit Nilsson, James King, Leonie Rysanek, Gerd Nienstedt
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Wilhelm Furtwängler / RAI Orchestra 1953

Wolfgang Windgassen, Hilde Konetzni, Ferdinand Frantz, Martha Mödl, Gottlob Frick, Elsa Cavelti, Gerda Scheyrer, Magda Gabory, Dagmar Schmedes, Hilde Rössel-Majdan, Judith Hellwig, Olga Bennings, Elsa Cavelti, Ira Malaniuk
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