SACD, Wagner (composer)
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Special offer. Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer
RecommendedAlbert Dohmen (Der Holländer), Ricarda Merbeth (Senta), Matti Salminen (Daland), Robert Dean Smith (Erik), Silvia Hablowetz (Mary), Steve Davislim (Steuermann)
Rundfunkchor Berlin & Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Marek Janowski
Janowski's conducting is crisp and fleet-footed, shaping the music naturally and fluently...[Dohmen] is a warm anti-hero, but too soft-grained to sound demonically desperate. Matti Salminen's... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th September 2011
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2011, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Wagner: Siegfried
RecommendedTomasz Konieczny (Der Wanderer/Wotan), Stephen Gould (Siegfried), Violeta Urmana (Brünnhilde), Anna Larsson (Erda), Matti Salminen (Fafner), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Alberich), Christian Elsner (Mime), Sophie Klußmann (Stimme eines Waldvogels)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Marek Janowski
This is a lively and enjoyable performance of what Wagner called his 'heroic comedy'...listen to the short but dense Prelude and you'll hear many things that you won't have heard on any other... —
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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The organ has a really gutsy, symphonic core... Jan Kraybill... plays with considerable verve and a feeling both for colour and for the grand gesture. —
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Nominee - Best Classical Instrumental Solo
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Special offer. Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Albert Dohmen (Hans Sachs), Robert Dean Smith (Walther), Edith Haller (Eva), Dietrich Henschel (Beckmesser), Peter Sonn (David), Michelle Breedt (Magdalene), Georg Zeppenfeld (Pogner)
Rundfunkchor Berlin & Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Marek Janowski
[a good Meistersinger] should show teamwork among the soloists and a good balance between the conversational style of much of the singing and the grandeur of the orchestral accompaniment. On... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Finalist - Opera
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2012, Opera Choice
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The Golden Ring: Great Scenes From Wagner's der Ring Des Nibelungen
Hetty Plumacher (contralto), Set Svanholm (tenor), Kirsten Flagstad (soprano), Ira Malaniuk (contralto), George London (baritone), Eberhard Wächter (baritone), Waldemar Kmentt (tenor), Oda Balsborg (soprano), Vera Schlosser (soprano), Claudia Hellmann (mezzo-soprano), Hans Hotter (bass (vocal)),...
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Wagner: Götterdämmerung
RecommendedBirgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde), Wolfgang Windgassen (Siegfried), Gottlob Frick (Hagen), Gustav Neidlinger (Alberich), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Gunther), Claire Watson (Gutrune), Christa Ludwig (Waltraute)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023, Shortlisted - Technical Achievement
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…sterling playing from the Scottish orchestra, whose dark, burnished brass section particularly suits Wagner's scoring, and virile, purposeful conducting from Neeme Järvi. —
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Wagner: Die Walküre
Birgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde), Hans Hotter (Wotan), Régine Crespin (Sieglinde), James King (Siegmund), Christa Ludwig (Fricka), Gottlob Frick (Hunding)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti
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Gimenez is both singing virtuoso and colour washing accompanist, dispatching vocal lines with extraordinary lyricism. —
