Wagner: Parsifal
Peter Hofmann (Parsifal), Dunja Vejzovic (Kundry), Kurt Moll (Gurnemanz), José van Dam (Amfortas), Siegmund Nimsgern (Klingsor), Victor von Halem (Titurel), Hanna Schwarz (Alto Stimme)
Berlin German Opera Chorus, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan
Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 1981, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 1981, Winner - Opera
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1980s
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
In most respects this is the most perfect, atmospheric Parsifal yet committed to disc or cassette. Admitting the vocal imperfections, few as they are, the set attempts an artistic, or at least...
Wagner: Parsifal
Peter Hofmann (Parsifal), Dunja Vejzovic (Kundry), Kurt Moll (Gurnemanz), José van Dam (Amfortas), Siegmund Nimsgern (Klingsor), Victor von Halem (Titurel), Hanna Schwarz (Alto Stimme)
Berlin German Opera Chorus, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan
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Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 1981, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 1981, Winner - Opera
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1980s
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
In most respects this is the most perfect, atmospheric Parsifal yet committed to disc or cassette. Admitting the vocal imperfections, few as they are, the set attempts an artistic, or at least...
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- Kurt Rydl (bass), Marjon Lambriks (soprano), Kurt Moll (bass), Dunja Vejzovic (mezzo-soprano), Anne Gjevang (alto), Claes-Håkon Ahnsjö (tenor), José van Dam (bass), Georg Tichy (bass), Heiner Hopfner (tenor), Peter Hofmann (tenor), Walter Hagen-Groll (chorus master), Victor von Halem (bass), Hanna Schwarz (mezzo-soprano), Siegmund Nimsgern (bass), Barbara Hendricks (soprano), Rohangiz Yachmi (contralto), Janet Perry (soprano), Audrey Michael (mezzo-soprano), Inga Nielsen (soprano), Doris Soffel (mezzo-soprano)
- Berliner Philharmoniker, Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin
- Herbert von Karajan
- Recorded: 1980-01-02
- Recording Venue: Philharmonie, Berlin
"Nicht Dank! Haha! Was wird es helfen?" - "He! Du da! Was liegst du dort wie ein wildes Tier?"
Track length7:30
"Grausamer! Fühlst du im Herzen" - "Ich sah ihn" - "Nun such' ich ihn von Welt zu Welt"
Track length12:53
"Gesegnet sei, du Reiner, durch das Reine!" - "Wie dünkt mich doch die Aue heut so schön!"
Track length8:20
Awards and reviews
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Penguin GuideRosette
1981
In most respects this is the most perfect, atmospheric Parsifal yet committed to disc or cassette. Admitting the vocal imperfections, few as they are, the set attempts an artistic, or at least technical superiority which it fairly achieves.
May 2010
...in its glowing beauty, Karajan's Parsifal comes closest to the ideal of Schopenhauerian or Buddhist renunciation of will that the opera itself may strive towards.
Communion, musical and spiritual, is what this intensely beautiful Karajan set provides. The playing of the Berlin Orchestra is consistently beautiful, near to the atmospheric ideal. A superb achievement.
