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Ultimate Wagner: The Essential Masterpieces | 
 enlarge | Creators: Richard Wagner, Georg Solti, James Levine, Karl Boehm, Silvio Varviso, Bayreuther Festspiele Orchester, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Alison Browner, Anna Reynolds, Annelies Burmeister, Arnold Van Mill, Birgit Nilsson, Danica Mastilovic, Deborah Sasson, Dorothea Siebert, Elisabeth Schartel, Ernst Kozub, Erwin Wohlfahrt, Frieder Stricker, Fritz Uhl
Label: Decca
Category: Music
Buy New: $18.98
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 164401
Format: Box Set
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 5
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 5.8 x 4.8 x 2.1
UPC: 028947802297
EAN: 0028947802297
ASIN: B001AX5BKK
Release Date: August 26, 2008
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Prelude | | • | Scene 1. Weia! Waga! Woge, du Welle! | | • | Scene 1. Garstig glatter, glitschriger Glimmer! | | • | Scene 1. Wallala! Lalaleia! Leialalei! | | • | Scene 4. Alberich's Curse. Bin ich nun frei? | | • | Scene 4. Schwueles Geduenst schwebt in der Luft | | • | Scene 4. Entry of the Gods into Valhalla. Zur Burg fuehrt die Bruecke | | • | Scene 4. Rheingold! Rheingold! | | • | Act 1. Prelude | | • | Act 1. Winterstuerme wichen dem Wonnemond | | • | Act 1. Wehwalt heisst du fuerwahr? | | • | Act 2. Nun zaeume dein Ross | | • | Act 2. Siegmund! Sieh auf mich! | | • | Act 2. Du sahest der Walkuere sehrenden Blick | | • | Act 3. The Ride of the Valkyries. Hojotoho! Heiaha! |
Disc 2
| • | Act 3. Wotan's Farewell. Leb wohl, du kuehnes, herrliches Kind | | • | Act 3. Magic Fire Music. Loge, hoer! Lausche hierher! | | • | Act 1. Hoho! Hoho! Hohei! Hohei! | | • | Act 1. Den der Bruder schuf, den schimmernden Reif | | • | Act 2. Forest Murmurs. Aber, wie sah meine Mutter wohl aus? | | • | Act 2. Du holdes Voeglein! Dich hoert' ich noch nie | | • | Act 2. Es schweigt und lauscht | | • | Act 2. Siegfried's Horn-call | | • | Act 3. Ewig war ich, ewig bin ich | | • | Prologue. Siegfried's Journey to the Rhine | | • | Act 3. Death of Siegfried. Bruennhilde, heilige Braut! | | • | Act 3. Siegfried's Funeral March | | • | Act 3. Immolation Scene. Starke Scheite schichtet mir dort | | • | Act 3. Immolation Scene. Mein Erbe nun nehm' ich zu eigen | | • | Act 3. Immolation Scene. Grane, mein Ross, sei mir gegruesst | | • | Act 3. Immolation Scene. Zurueck vom Ring! |
Disc 3
| • | Act 1. Prelude | | • | Act 1. Westwaerts schweift der Blick | | • | Act 2. Love Duet. O sink hernieder, Nacht der Liebe | | • | Act 2. Brangaene's Warning. Einsam wachend in der Nacht! | | • | Act 2. Unsre Liebe? Tristans Liebe? | | • | Act 2. So starben wir, um ungetrennt | | • | Act 3. Prelude | | • | Act 3. Death of Tristan. Und drauf Isolde, wie sie winkt | | • | Act 3. Death of Tristan. O diese Sonne! | | • | Act 3. Kurwenal! Hoer! | | • | Act 3. Isolde's Liebestod. Mild und leise |
Disc 4
| • | Prelude | | • | Act 1. Da zu dir der Heiland kam | | • | Act 1. Verweilt! Ein Wort | | • | Act 1. Am stillen Herd | | • | Act 2. Johannistag! Johannistag! | | • | Act 2. Flieder Monologue. Was duftet doch der Flieder | | • | Act 3. Prelude | | • | Act 3. Gleich, Meister! Hier! | | • | Act 3. Wahn Monologue. Wahn! Wahn! Ueberall Wahn! | | • | Act 3. Die "selige Morgentraum-Deutweise" sei sie gennant | | • | Act 3. Selig, wie die Sonne | | • | Act 3. Wacht auf! Ws nahet gen den Tag | | • | Act 3. Prize Song. Morgenlich leuchtend | | • | Act 3. Verachtet mir die Meister nicht |
Disc 5
| • | Prelude | | • | Act 1. Vom Bade kehrt der Koenig heim | | • | Act 1. Transformation Music | | • | Act 1. Nun achte wohl und lass mich sehn... Zum letzten Liebesmahle | | • | Act 1. Wehvolles Erbe, dem ich verfallen | | • | Act 2. Flower Maidens' Chorus. Komm, holder Knabe! | | • | Act 2. Parsifal! Weile! | | • | Act 3. Gesagnet sei, du Reiner, durch das Reine! | | • | Act 3. Good Friday Music. Wie duenkt mich doch die Aue heut so schoen | | • | Act 3. Du siehst, das ist nicht so | | • | Act 3. Final Scene. Nur eine Waffe taugt | | • | Act 3. Final Scene. Hoechsten Heiles Wunder! |
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Album Description
With selections and scenes from Der Ring des Nibelungen, Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg and Parsifal. Performances by Birgit Nilsson, Leonie Rysanek, Waltraud Meier, Wolfgang Windgassen, Peter Hofmann, Theo Adam, Matti Salminen with Georg Solti, James Levine and others.
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Visit Bayreuth for two dollars a disc October 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a fantastic bargain, an overlooked 5-CD tour of Bayreuth from the Sixties (Karl Bohm's mid-decade Ring cycle) through the Seventies (Silvio Varviso's 1974 Meistersinger) to the Eighties (James Levine's 1985 Parsifal). The only outsider is Solti's studio Tristan und Isolde from Vienna with the young Birgit Nilsson in gleaming voice.
There's a special theatrical frisson to every excerpt, and even for experienced listeners who might not want to buy the parent sets from which these sizable chunks have been extracted, it's pure pleasure to hear all these performances. The live sonics, engineered originally by Decca dn Philips, are often amazingly fine and never less than good. In sum, a wonderful way to get to a festival that few of us are likely to experience in person.
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