Falk Struckmann
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Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72
RecommendedJonas Kaufmann (Florestan), Nina Stemme (Leonore), Falk Struckmann (Pizarro), Christof Fischesser (Rocco), Rachel Harnisch (Marzelline), Christoph Strehl (Jaquino), Peter Mattei (Don Fernando)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra & Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Claudio Abbado
The real star of this performance...is the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, in whose hands the music seems to glow from within. The playing is thrilling throughout, with Claudio Abbado caressing... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th June 2011
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2011, Disc of the Month
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Winner - Opera
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Wagner: Lohengrin
RecommendedJohan Botha (Lohengrin), Adrianne Pieczonka (Elsa), Falk Struckmann (Telramund), Petra Lang (Ortrud), Kwangchul Youn (King Heinrich), Eike Wilm Schulte (Herald)
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, WDR Rundfunkchor Köln, NDR Chor & Prager Kammerchor, Semyon Bychkov
Semyon Bychkov conducts a robustly powerful yet airily textured performance, keenly dramatic yet finely detailed. His Cologne orchestra and various choruses, focused and involved, sound tremendous... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Collection
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th April 2010
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2010, Disc of the Year & Opera Award Winner
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Opera, June 2009, Recording of the Month
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Wagner: Parsifal
RecommendedPlácido Domingo (Parsifal), Waltraud Meier (Kundry), Franz-Josef Selig (Gurnemanz), Wolfgang Bankl (Klingsor), Ain Anger (Titurel), Falk Struckmann (Amfortas), Janina Baechle (Alto Stimme)
Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Christian Thielemann
At one and the same time this is a beautiful Parsifal… a modern Parsifal… and a new look at Parsifal, informed by Thielemann's experience and knowledge of a great tradition. …Domingo's… commitment... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2006, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Wagner: Lohengrin
Klaus Florian Vogt (Lohengrin), Camilla Nylund (Elsa), Katarina Dalayman (Ortrud), Evgeny Nikitin (Friedrich von Telramund), Falk Struckmann (Heinrich der Vogler)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Choir, Dutch National Opera Chorus, Mark Elder
This is in some ways the finest modern recording of Lohengrin, in the first place on account of Sir Mark Elder’s superbly detailed, passionate and large-scale conducting of the Royal Concertgebouw... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2017
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Record Review, 6th May 2017, Recording of the Week
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Special offer. Wagner: Siegfried
RecommendedSimon O’Neill (Siegfried), Matthias Goerne (The Wanderer), David Cangelosi (Mime), Werner Van Mechelen (Alberich), Heidi Melton (Brünnhilde), Falk Struckmann (Fafner), Deborah Humble (Erda), Valentina Farcas (Wood-Bird)
Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden
[van Zweden] evokes both its youthful energy and darker undercurrents, with excellent playing from the augmented Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra…But every ‘Siegfried’ hangs on the title role,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Opera Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Special offer. Wagner: Rienzi
Peter Bronder (Rienzi), Christiane Libor (Irene), Falk Struckmann (Steffano Colonna), Claudia Mahnke (Adriano), Daniel Schmutzhard (Paolo Orsini), Alfred Reiter (Kardinal Orvieto)
Frankfurter Opern-und Museums-orchester & Chor der Oper Frankfurt, Sebastian Weigle
If Bronder lacks the last ounce of heroic razzmatazz...there is not a note or tone in this impressive reading which is not convincingly struck. His colleagues are in like form...Recording quality... —
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Special offer. Wagner: Siegfried
RecommendedSimon O’Neill (Siegfried), Matthias Goerne (The Wanderer), David Cangelosi (Mime), Werner Van Mechelen (Alberich), Heidi Melton (Brünnhilde)
Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden
[van Zweden] evokes both its youthful energy and darker undercurrents, with excellent playing from the augmented Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra…But every ‘Siegfried’ hangs on the title role,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Opera Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Special offer. Wagner: Parsifal
Falk Struckmann (Amfortas), Matthias Hölle (Titurel), Hans Sotin (Gurnemanz), Poul Elming (Parsifal), Ekkehard Wlaschiha (Klingsor), Linda Watson (Kundry)
Orchestra of the Bayreuther Festspiele, Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor) & Wolfgang Wagner (stage director)
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Special offer. Wagner: Siegfried
Christian Franz (Siegfried), Peter Galliard (Mime), Falk Struckmann (Der Wanderer), Wolfgang Koch (Alberich), Diogenes Randes (Fafner), Deborah Humble (Erda), Catherine Foster (Brünnhilde) & Ha Young Lee (Stimme des Waldvogels)
Hamburg State Opera & Philharmoniker Hamburg, Simone Young
Christian Franz, though by no means ideal, has many of the qualities the role needs, including a pleasant voice and staying power...He also shows a sense of poetry, so that he doesn't come across... —
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Special offer. Wagner: Die Walküre
Stuart Skelton (Siegmund), Yvonne Naef (Sieglinde), Deborah Polaski (Brünnhilde), Falk Struckmann (Wotan), Mikhail Petrenko (Hunding), Jeanne Piland (Fricka), Hellen Kwon (Gerhilde), Miriam Gordon-Stewart (Helmwige), Gabriele Rossmanith (Ortlinde), Katja Pieweck (Siegrune), Renate Spingler (Rossweiße),...
Young's balancing of orchestral textures is interestingly calculated, often novel, and most attentive to the written dynamics. …Polaski… is compelling. With Struckmann's Wotan… she achieves... —
