Summer Opera Sale - Up to 40% off
We're delighted to offer a more affordable way to begin or continue your opera journey, with up to 40% off selected titles on CD, SACD, Vinyl, DVD and Blu-ray, until 14th August 2024.
Summer Opera Sale - Up to 40% off, Hans Knappertsbusch (conductor)
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A Tribute to Hans Knappertsbusch Live recording from the Theater an der Wien, Wiener Festwochen, 1962 & 1963
Wilhelm Backhaus (piano), Claire Watson (Sieglinde), Fritz Uhl (Siegmund) & Josef Greindl (Hunding), Birgit Nilsson (Isolde)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Hans Knappertsbusch
These historic performances remain more golden than their ageing picture frames — More…
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The complete VPO Meistersinger with Paul Schöffler as Hans Sachs, recorded in September 1950 and September 1951, finds Knappertsbusch at his most affable and emotionally generous, though the... — More…
19 CDs
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Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer Ludwig Weber (Daland), Astrid Varnay (Senta), Wolfgang Windgassen (Erik), Elisabeth Schärtel (Mary), Josef Traxel (Der Steuermann) & Hermann Uhde (Der Holländer)
Chorus & Orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival, Hans Knappertsbusch
Maestro Knappertsbusch is on the concentrated form of his 1951 Munich Tristan. …all is steely strength, realised through dynamic sensitivity and spacious tempi… Any suspicion that Astrid Varnay…... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2010, Editor's Choice
2 CDs
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Nicolai, C O: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor Annelies Kupper, Karl Schmitt-Walter (Frau & Herr Fluth), Max Proebstl (Falstaff), Lilian Benningsen, Kieth Engen (Frau & Herr Reich), Liselotte Fölser (Anna Reich), Richard Holm (Fenton), Paul Kuën (Junker Spärlich) & Rudolf Wünzer (Dr. Cajus)
Chorus of the Bavarian State Opera...
2 CDs
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Wagner: Parsifal Jon Vickers (Parsifal), Hans Hotter (Gurnemanz), Thomas Stewart (Amfortas), Gustav Neidlinger (Klingsor), Barbro Ericson (Kundry), Heinz Hagenau (Titurel), Anja Silja, Dorothea Siebert, Liselotte Rebmann, Rita Bartos, Else-Margrete Gardelli, Sylvia Lindenstrand (flower maidens) & Ruth Hesse (voice...
The (to date) 11 released recordings of Hans Knappertsbusch's Parsifal performances at Bayreuth between 1951 and 1964 constitute a unique record of one conductor's work on a favoured score in... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2008, Editor's Choice
4 CDs
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Wagner: Parsifal Martha Mödl (Kundry), Wolfgang Windgassen (Parsifal), George London (Amfortas), Ludwig Weber (Gurnemanz), Hermann Uhde (Klingsor), Kurt Böhme (Titurel)
Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Hans Knappertsbusch
4 CDs
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Wagner: Parsifal Bayreuther Festspiele 1955
Ramón Vinay (Parsifal), Martha Mödl (Kundry), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Amfortas), Gustav Neidlinger (Klingsor), Ludwig Weber (Gurnemanz), Hermann Uhde (Titurel), Bayreuth Festival Chorus & Orchestra, Hans Knappertsbusch
Because of my reservations regarding Vinay, I would not rank this on quite the same place as the 1951 and 1962 performances; but it is a very close second to those, with terrific performances... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Historical
4 CDs
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Wagner: Lohengrin Hans Hopf (Lohengrin), Ingrid Bjoner (Elsa von Brabant), Hans Günter Nöcker (Friedrich von Telramund), Astrid Varnay (Ortrud), Josef Metternich (Der Heerrufer des Königs), Gislinde Skroblin (Herzog Gottfried, Elsas Bruder)
Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper & Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Hans...
the basic sound of this preservation is poor - an unresonant and tubby brass timbre and relatively overloud timpani...There are rewards: the rare chance of hearing the Norwegian Ingrid Bjoner... — More…
3 CDs
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Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Otto Edelman (Hans Sachs), Hans Hopf (Walther), Lisa Della Casa (Eva), Heinrich Pflanzl (Beckmesser), Kurt Böehme (Pogner), Gerhard Unger (David), Ira Malaniuk (Magdalena), Werner Faulhaber (Kothner), Gustav Neidlinger (Nachtwächter)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Bayreuth Festival, Hans Knappertsbusch
4 CDs
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Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Paul Schoeffler, Hilde Gueden, Gunther Treptow, Karl Dönch, Otto Edelmann, Anton Dermota & Else Schürhoff
Vienna State Opera Chorus & Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Hans Knappertsbusch
The cast centres around the nobel Hans Sachs of Paul Schoeffler in one of his very finest recordings, opposite the totally enchanting Eva of Hilde Gueden...Knappertsbusch's direction is spacious... — More…
4 CDs
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