René Kollo
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Margaret Price (Isolde), René Kollo (Tristan), Brigitte Fassbaender (Brangaene), Kurt Moll (König Marke), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Kurwenal), Werner Götz (Melot), Anton Dermota (Hirt)
Rundfunkchor Leipzig & Staatskapelle Dresden, Carlos Kleiber
Kleiber directs a compellingly impulsive reading, crowned by the glorious Isolde of Margaret Price, the most purely beautiful of any complete interpretation on record —
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Wagner: Tannhäuser
RecommendedRené Kollo (Tannhauser), Helga Dernesch (Elisabeth), Christa Ludwig (Venus), Victor Braun (Wolfram), Manfred Jungwirth (Biterolf), Hans Sotin (Hermann), Kurt Equiluz (Heinrich), Norman Bailey (Reinmar)
Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti
One of the most satisfying of Georg Solti’s Wagner recordings. Christa Ludwig is a seductive Venus in this, the Paris version, Helga Dernesch a sweet-toned Elisabeth, though René Kollo isn’t... —
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Building a Library, May 2003, First Choice on CD (Paris version)
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Every operetta buff will want this, and I suspect everyone else will simply be swept along by the joie de vivre and sheer melodic flair of this underrated – but unarguable – classic of its genre. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex
Leonard Bernstein, Michael Wagner (narrator), René Kollo (tenor), Tom Krause (baritone), Ezio Flagello (bass vocal), Tatiana Troyanos (mezzo-soprano), David Evitts (baritone)
Harvard Glee Club
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Strauss, J, II: Die Fledermaus (highlights)
Hermann Prey (Eisenstein), Julia Varady (Rosalinde), Lucia Popp (Adele), René Kollo (Alfred), Ivan Rebroff (Orlofsky), Bernd Weikl (Falke)
Bayerisches Staatsopernorchester, Bavarian State Orchestra, Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper München, Carlos Kleiber
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Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Helen Donath (soprano), René Kollo (tenor), Ruth Hesse (mezzo-soprano), Peter Schreier (tenor), Geraint Evans (bass-baritone), Karl Ridderbusch (bass), Eberhard Büchner (tenor), Hans-Joachim Rotzsch (tenor), Heinz Reeh (bass), Hermann Christian Polster (bass), Horst Hiestermann (tenor), Horst Lunow...
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Wagner: Tannhäuser
RecommendedParis version
René Kollo (Tannhauser), Helga Dernesch (Elisabeth), Christa Ludwig (Venus), Victor Braun (Wolfram), Manfred Jungwirth (Biterolf), Hans Sotin (Hermann), Kurt Equiluz (Heinrich), Norman Bailey (Reinmar)
Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti
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Building a Library, May 2013, First Choice on CD (Paris version)
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Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
RecommendedNorman Bailey (Hans Sachs), Bernd Weikl (Beckmesser), René Kollo (Walther von Stolzing), Hannelore Bode (Eva), Adolf Dallapozza (David), Magdalene (Julia Hamari (Magdalene), Kurt Moll (Pogner)
Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti
Bailey's ... is the most rounded portrayal to date ... the set as a whole is a considerable achievement, a worthy addition to the Decca/Solti Wagner discograohy. —
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Building a Library, February 2009, First Choice
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Wagner: Parsifal
René Kollo (Parsifal), Christa Ludwig (Kundry), Zoltan Kelemen (Klingsor), Gottlob Frick (Gurnemanz), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Amfortas), Hans Hotter (Titurel)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti
The evenness of the cast is a strong asset here...Ludwig's is the most securely and warmly sung Kundry on any version, CD or LP, and achieves all the agonized feeling and crazed passion of her... —
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Special offer. Wagner: Parsifal
Theo Adam, Gisela Schroter, Gisela Pohl, Helga Termer, Ingeborg Springer, Fred Teschler, Regina Werner, Hermann-Christian Polster, René Kollo
Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester Leipzig, Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Thomanerchor Leipzig, Herbert Kegel
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