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Wagner: | Der Ring des Nibelungen Written and read by Stephen Johnson |
(2 CDs + 20 page booklet). This two-CD guide explains the basics of the plot, profiles the leading characters, and shows how Wagner’s revolutionary music adds fascinating layers of meaning and psychological insight, as well as providing some of the most stirring and intoxicating moments in the entire operatic repertoire. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Wagner: Der Ring des NibelungenAn Introduction to the Opera
Vienna Philharmonic, Georg Solti Famed British Musicologist, Deryck Cooke, offers insightful comentary highlighted with musical examples performed by the Vienna Philharmonic under the direction of Sir Georg Solti. This unique recording has been sought be collectors for many years.
This album is an audio explanation and analysis of Wagner's system of leitmotifs by Deryck Cooke with 193 music examples either extracted from the complete recordings or specially recorded for this production. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Wagner: Der Ring des NibelungenAn Organ Transcription
Hansjorg Albrecht (organ) | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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Roland Bracht (Bass); Hernan Iturralde (Baritone); Albert Bonnema; Eva-Maria Westbroek (Soprano); Luana DeVol; Wolfgang Schone (Bass); Heinz Gohrig; Jon West (Tenor); Lisa Gasteen (Soprano); Jan-Hendrik Rootering (Bass); Renate Behle (Soprano); Robert Gambill (Tenor); Angela Denoke (Soprano); Robert Kunzli (Tenor); Esa Ruuttunen (Baritone); Wolfgang Probst (Baritone); Helga Indridadóttir (Soprano); Michaela Schuster (Soprano) Staatsoper Stuttgart, Lothar Zagrosek 'Four opera - four stage directors' was the artistic idea behind the 1999/2000 cycle in Stuttgart. Appreciating the individual operas of 'Der Ring' without having to relate to the previous or following storylines enabled the stage directors - hand-picked by the successful Stuttgart Opera team surrounding Artistic Director Klaus Zehelein - to express their individual insights into the well-known drama of Siegfried and Wotan. Anyone interested in The Ring as a parable of human behaviour will find this riveting
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Das Rheingold John Tomlinson (Bass); Bodo Brinkmann (Baritone); Graham Clark (Tenor); Linda Finnie (Mezzo Soprano); Kurt Schreibmayer (Tenor); Eva Johansson (Soprano); Birgitta Svendén (Mezzo Soprano); Günter von Kannen (Baritone); Helmut Pampuch (Tenor); Matthias Hölle (Bass); Philip Kang (Bass); Hilde Leidland (Soprano); Annette Küttenbaum (Mezzo Soprano); Jane Turner (Mezzo Soprano) Die Walküre Matthias Hölle (Bass); Poul Elming (Tenor); Anne Evans (Soprano); Nadine Secunde (Soprano); John Tomlinson (Bass); Linda Finnie (Mezzo Soprano); Linda Finnie (Mezzo Soprano); Eva Johansson (Soprano); Ruth Floeren (Soprano); Shirley Close (Mezzo Soprano); Hitomi Katagiri (Mezzo Soprano); Eva-Maria Bundschuh (Soprano); Birgitta Svendén (Mezzo Soprano); Hebe Dijkstra (Mezzo Soprano) Siegfried Siegfried Jerusalem (Tenor); Graham Clark (Tenor); John Tomlinson (Bass); Günter von Kannen (Bass); Philip Kang (Bass); Anne Evans (Soprano); Birgitta Svendén (Alto); Hilde Leidland (Soprano) Götterdämmerung iegfried Jerusalem (Tenor); Bodo Brinkmann (Baritone); Philip Kang (Bass); Günter von Kannen (Bass); Anne Evans (Soprano); Eva-Maria Bundschuh (Soprano); Waltraud Meier (Mezzo Soprano); Birgitta Svendén (Alto); Linda Finnie (Mezzo Soprano); Ute Priew (Soprano); Hilde Leidland (Soprano); Annette Küttenbaum (Mezzo Soprano); Jane Turner (Alto) Bayreuth Festival Chorus, Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim Directed by Harry Kupfer, with designs by Hans Schavernoch
This legendary Bayreuth Festival production of Wagner’s 'Der Ring des Nibelungen', directed by Harry Kupfer, with designs by Hans Schavernoch, and conducted by Daniel Barenboim, is considered perhaps the finest video recording of these four operas ever made. For their innovative modernist staging, Kupfer and his team turned away from the work’s time of origin and located The Ring at a “road of history”, a meeting-place of past, present and future, which sets the scene for the story’s struggles of power and love. Barenboim’s authoritative yet highly responsive reading of the immense score and the extraordinary performances of the cast help to make this a truly memorable Ring. “If a cycle is going as well as the Harry Kupfer/Daniel Barenboim Ring was, the super-test of Götterdämmerung brings out the best in everyone… Barenboim manipulates his orchestra with Furtwänglerian virtuosity, huge rits, pauses and all, tailor-made to the stage drama. This is the strongest of Hohlfeld’s four Ring filmings. It captures the Fritz Lang-like atmosphere of terror that Kupfer gets from this work, and is at the right angles for the moving depiction of Siegfried’s death and funeral march…” Gramophone 2007 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Das Rheingold Birgitta Svendén (Mezzo Soprano); Anthony Raffell (Bass); James Morris (Bass); Christa Ludwig (Mezzo Soprano); Ekkehard Wlaschiha (Baritone); Siegfried Jerusalem (Tenor); Jessye Norman (Soprano); Hildegard Behrens (Soprano); Gary Lakes (Tenor); Matti Salminen (Bass); Heinz Zednik (Tenor) Die Walküre Birgitta Svendén (Mezzo Soprano); Anthony Raffell (Bass); James Morris (Bass); Christa Ludwig (Mezzo Soprano); Ekkehard Wlaschiha (Baritone); Siegfried Jerusalem (Tenor); Jessye Norman (Soprano); Hildegard Behrens (Soprano); Gary Lakes (Tenor); Matti Salminen (Bass); Heinz Zednik (Tenor) Siegfried Birgitta Svendén (Mezzo Soprano); Anthony Raffell (Bass); James Morris (Bass); Christa Ludwig (Mezzo Soprano); Ekkehard Wlaschiha (Baritone); Siegfried Jerusalem (Tenor); Jessye Norman (Soprano); Hildegard Behrens (Soprano); Gary Lakes (Tenor); Matti Salminen (Bass); Heinz Zednik (Tenor) Götterdämmerung Birgitta Svendén (Mezzo Soprano); Anthony Raffell (Bass); James Morris (Bass); Christa Ludwig (Mezzo Soprano); Ekkehard Wlaschiha (Baritone); Siegfried Jerusalem (Tenor); Jessye Norman (Soprano); Hildegard Behrens (Soprano); Gary Lakes (Tenor); Matti Salminen (Bass); Heinz Zednik (Tenor) Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus, James Levine Subtitles in German, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese "DVD's second 'Ring' cycle deserves a warm welcome, however qualified. None of the video-recorded versions can be called ideal; but the Met cycle has plenty of strong points. It's the only one Wagner would have recognised - no small consideration. Here, Otto Schenk and designer Gunther Schneider-Siemssen preserve the Romantic imagery, often beautifully, as Brian Large's cameras reveal; but unimaginatively, with too many tired compromises." - Gramophone | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Angela Denoke, Luana DeVol, Lisa Gasteen, Robert Gambill, Jan-Hendrik Rootering, Wolfgang Schöne & Jon Frederick West Stuttgart Opera, Lothar Zagrosek As a VERY special offer for Christmas, MediciArts presents the hugely successful Ring cycle from the Staatsoper Stuttgart in a box set to be cherished by Wagner enthusiasts and lovers of great theatre all over the world. "Four operas - four stage directors" was the artistic idea behind the 1999/2000 cycle in Stuttgart, handpicked by the successful Stuttgart Opera team surrounding Artistic Director Klaus Zehelein, to express their individual insights into the drama of Siegfried and Wotan.Audiences were enthusiastically positive about the result. Directors Joachim Schlömer, Christoph Nel, Jossi Wieler and Peter Konwitschny and their outstanding casts managed an epoch-making artistic enterprise, which will maintain its place as a highlight of Wagner staging for years to come. "The 1999-2000 season brought the completion of a Wagner 'Ring' cycle heralded as one of the most important in Germany; a different production team staged each of the four operas independently, with four different casts." New York Times "Zehelein shattered convention by allocating the four operas to four different production teams. The results are astonishing as much for the unexpected harmony of the different approaches as for the strength of their diverse insights. The Ring finally looks politically and psychologically modern again." The Financial Times | 
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Wagner: | Der Ring des Nibelungen |
Seven-DVD set of Wagner’s gargantuan Ring Cycle – the celebrated, critically-acclaimed production at the Royal Danish Opera, come to be known as the Copenhagen Ring. Striking, memorable and controversial staging by Kasper Bech Holten. The action, experienced as an extended flashback, presents Wagner’s epic as a family saga from a feminist perspective. The production is visually stunning, disturbing and at times explicit. “superbly acted, more than decently sung and executed with a technical bravura that puts recent London stagings to shame” (Sunday Times) |
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Das Rheingold Heinz Zednik (Tenor); Donald McIntyre (Baritone); Hanna Schwarz (Mezzo Soprano); Siegfried Jerusalem (Tenor); Matti Salminen (Bass); Hermann Becht (Baritone); Norma Sharp (Soprano); Martin Egel (Baritone) Die Walküre Wyneth Jones (Soprano); Donald McIntyre (Baritone); Jeanine Altmeyer (Soprano); Peter Hofmann (Tenor); Hanna Schwarz (Mezzo Soprano); Matti Salminen (Bass) Siegfried Manfred Jung (Tenor); Donald McIntyre (Baritone); Heinz Zednik (Tenor); Gwyneth Jones (Soprano); Gwendolyn Killebrew (Mezzo Soprano); Norma Sharp (Soprano); Hermann Becht (Baritone); Fritz Hübner (Bass) Götterdämmerung Gwyneth Jones (Soprano); Manfred Jung (Tenor); Fritz Hübner (Bass); Jeanine Altmeyer (Soprano); Hermann Becht (Baritone); Franz Mazura (Baritone); Gwendolyn Killebrew (Mezzo Soprano) Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Pierre Boulez & directed by Patrice Chéreau Coupled with a bonus DVD of Der Ring Des Nibelungen - Documentary | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Deborah Polaski, Matti Salminen, Falk Struckmann, John Treleaven and Eric Halfvarson Symphony Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Bertrand de Billy Opus Arte presents Harry Kupfer's stunning production of Wagner's colossal masterpiece 'Der Ring des Nibelungen' from the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona as a complete box set. Deborah Polaski, Matti Salminen, Falk Struckmann, John Treleaven and Eric Halfvarson lead a splendid cast in this epic cycle, which runs for over 15 hours. Bertrand de Billy conducts the superb Symphony Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu. This cycle is considered to be among the greatest productions of modern times and is recorded in sumptuous surround sound. A Ring Cycle not to be missed!"...the best small screen realization of a Ring opera I have seen." -International Record Review | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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