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Jaap van Zweden, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra - Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung (2018)

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Jaap van Zweden, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra - Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung (2018)

Jaap van Zweden, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra - Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1,04 Gb | Total time: 4:23:42 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.660428-31 | Recorded: 2018

Completing their Ring cycle on Naxos, Jaap van Zweden and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra have at last released their much anticipated recording of Götterdämmerung, which proves conclusively that this enterprise was a success. There had been some concern that Wagner's tetralogy would be an insurmountable challenge for this inexperienced orchestra, and that an untried conductor and singers would be unable to give convincing performances from start to finish. Beginning with the release of Das Rheingold in 2015, which was followed by Die Walküre in 2016 and Siegfried in 2017, the performances showed increasing confidence and commitment, not least from van Zweden, who had planned this project since he began his tenure with the orchestra in 2012, but also from the orchestra, which provided consistently solid playing and many moments of sheer brilliance.

Andris Nelsons, Gewandhausorchester - Bruckner: Symphony No.7; Wagner: Siegfried’s Funeral March (2018)

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Andris Nelsons, Gewandhausorchester - Bruckner: Symphony No.7; Wagner: Siegfried’s Funeral March (2018)

Andris Nelsons, Gewandhausorchester - Bruckner: Symphony No.7; Wagner: Siegfried’s Funeral March (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 303 Mb | Total time: 76:48 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 479 8494 | Recorded: 2018

Continuing his Bruckner cycle on Deutsche Grammophon with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Andris Nelsons presents the Symphony No. 7 in E major, paired with an excerpt from Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, "Siegfried's Funeral March" from Götterdämmerung. While this symphony is outwardly one of Bruckner's most approachable, particularly in its lyrical opening movement, its energetic Scherzo, and its jubilant Finale, its long, funereal Adagio makes the connection to the gloomy Ring selection more apparent, since this slow movement was composed in anticipation of Wagner's death. It also marks the first time that Bruckner used a quartet of the novel "Wagner tubas," and unusually wrote parts for cymbals, triangle, and timpani at the movement's climax, perhaps symbolizing Wagner's apotheosis.

Arturo Toscanini - The Television Concerts 1948-52 Vol.4: Weber, Brahms, Wagner (2005)

Posted By: Vilboa
Arturo Toscanini - The Television Concerts 1948-52 Vol.4: Weber, Brahms, Wagner (2005)

Arturo Toscanini - The Television Concerts 1948-52 Vol.4: Weber, Brahms, Wagner (2005)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | 7.32 Gb (DVD9) | 108 min
Classical | Testament

One of the most acclaimed musicians of his era, Toscanini was a conductor of the "old school" - aristocratic, perfectionistic and something of an autocrat on the podium. After a brief flurry of interest in Fascism in the 1910s, he rapidly became disillusioned with the movement and indeed became a personal rival of Mussolini, repeatedly antagonising him through acts of artistic defiance such as refusals to open concerts with the Fascist anthem Giovinezza.

Arturo Toscanini - The Television Concerts 1948-52 Vol.2: Mozart, Brahms, Dvorak, Wagner (2005)

Posted By: Vilboa
Arturo Toscanini  - The Television Concerts 1948-52 Vol.2: Mozart, Brahms, Dvorak, Wagner (2005)

Arturo Toscanini - The Television Concerts 1948-52 Vol.2: Mozart, Brahms, Dvořák, Wagner (2005)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | 7.55 Gb (DVD9) | 112 min
Classical | Testament

One of the most acclaimed musicians of his era, Toscanini was a conductor of the "old school" - aristocratic, perfectionistic and something of an autocrat on the podium. After a brief flurry of interest in Fascism in the 1910s, he rapidly became disillusioned with the movement and indeed became a personal rival of Mussolini, repeatedly antagonising him through acts of artistic defiance such as refusals to open concerts with the Fascist anthem Giovinezza.

Arturo Toscanini - The Television Concerts 1948-52 Vol.1: Wagner, Beethoven (2005/1948)

Posted By: Vilboa
Arturo Toscanini  - The Television Concerts 1948-52 Vol.1: Wagner, Beethoven (2005/1948)

Arturo Toscanini - The Television Concerts 1948-52 Vol.1: Wagner, Beethoven (2005/1948)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | 7.52 Gb (DVD9) | 121 min
Classical | Testament

One of the most acclaimed musicians of his era, Toscanini was a conductor of the "old school" - aristocratic, perfectionistic and something of an autocrat on the podium. After a brief flurry of interest in Fascism in the 1910s, he rapidly became disillusioned with the movement and indeed became a personal rival of Mussolini, repeatedly antagonising him through acts of artistic defiance such as refusals to open concerts with the Fascist anthem Giovinezza.

Zubin Mehta, Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana - Wagner: Siegfried (2009) [Blu-Ray]

Posted By: Vilboa
Zubin Mehta, Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana - Wagner: Siegfried (2009) [Blu-Ray]

Zubin Mehta, Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana - Wagner: Siegfried (2009) [Blu-Ray]
BluRay | BDMV | MPEG-4 AVC Video / 12979 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps | 256 min | 42,9 Gb
Audio1: Deutsch / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 24-bit | Audio2: DTS-HD Master Audio / 7.1 / 48 kHz / 5454 kbps / 24-bit
Classical | C Major | Sub: Deutsch, English, Francais, Espanol

La Fura del Baus, famous for their opening ceremony of the Olympic games in Barcelona and opera stagings in Salzburg, Ruhrtriennale, etc., use in their groundbreaking Ring 3D computer projections that evoke computer games, organic structures built of athletic performers that recall the "Cirque du soleil". “…excellent orchestral playing and decent sound to match…a striking and often absorbing experiment” (Gramophone).

Zubin Mehta, Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana - Wagner: Die Walküre (2009) [Blu-Ray]

Posted By: Vilboa
Zubin Mehta, Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana - Wagner: Die Walküre (2009) [Blu-Ray]

Zubin Mehta, Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana - Wagner: Die Walküre (2009) [Blu-Ray]
BluRay | BDMV | MPEG-4 AVC Video / 13976 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps | 244 min | 43,6 Gb
Audio1: Deutsch / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 24-bit | Audio2: DTS-HD Master Audio / 7.1 / 48 kHz / 5543 kbps / 24-bit
Classical | C Major | Sub: Deutsch, English, Français, Español

La Fura dels Baus, famous for their opening ceremony of the Olympic games in Barcelona and opera stagings in Salzburg, Ruhrtriennale, etc., use in Rheingold 3D computer projections that evoke computer games, organic structures built of athletic performers that recall the "Cirque du soleil". “Uusitalo is a commanding, mellifluous Wotan and although Jennifer Wilson's Brünnhilde is relatively unnuanced dramatically, she sings strongly and sensitively…The youthful Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana obediently and expertly delivers the plushy textures and stagey rhetoric Mehta requires” (Gramophone).

Zubin Mehta, Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana - Wagner: Das Rheingold (2009) [Blu-Ray]

Posted By: Vilboa
Zubin Mehta, Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana - Wagner: Das Rheingold (2009) [Blu-Ray]

Zubin Mehta, Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana - Wagner: Das Rheingold (2009) [Blu-Ray]
BluRay | BDMV | MPEG-4 AVC Video / 23941 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps | 167 min | 40,5 Gb
Classical | C Major | Sub: Deutsch, English, Francais, Espanol

La Fura dels Baus, famous for their opening ceremony of the Olympic games in Barcelona and opera stagings in Salzburg, Ruhrtriennale, etc., use in Rheingold 3D computer projections that evoke computer games, organic structures built of athletic performers that recall the "Cirque du soleil". From Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia, Valencia, 2007.
Incl. world-class Wagner singers such as Salminen, Kapellmann, Mayer and promising young talents that include John Daszak (Loge) and Juha Uusitalo (Wotan), whom the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung hailed as a new "Number One among the opera gods."

Leonard Bernstein - Bernstein: Tchaikovsky – Wagner (2023)

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Leonard Bernstein - Bernstein: Tchaikovsky – Wagner (2023)

Leonard Bernstein - Bernstein: Tchaikovsky – Wagner (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 2.6 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 1.4 GB
10:50:28 | Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon

No figure in 20th century American classical music had as prominent or controversial a career – or did more to sell classical music to the general public as something genuinely exciting, and worth getting into a sweat over – than Leonard Bernstein. For more than 30 years, from his assumption of the post of Music Director of the New York Philharmonic in 1958 until the final concerts that he conducted in obviously failing health near the end of his life in 1990, he was the most prominent and widely recognized American-born conductor in the world, and the dominant personality in American classical music as both a conductor and, to a lesser degree, a composer. A flamboyant public figure, he burst three different times on the musical world – twice in classical with a rush of success on Broadway in between – in a blaze of glory, in the space of 15 years; and over a career lasting from the early '40s until the beginning of the '90s, he never lost an opportunity to advance his reputation as well as the cause of music.

VA - Wagner at the Met: Legendary Performances from the Metropolitan Opera (2013)

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VA - Wagner at the Met: Legendary Performances from the Metropolitan Opera (2013)

VA - Wagner at the Met: Legendary Performances from the Metropolitan Opera (2013) (25 CD Box Set)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks, log) | 25 CDs, 03:44:38 min | Covers included | 4,62 Gb
Genre: Classical, Opera & Classical Vocal / Label: Sony Classical

Wagner at The Met is the first authorized release of Richard Wagner's operatic masterpieces, including the complete Ring Cycle, captured live in historic broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera.

Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra, Peter Schneider - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (2018)

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Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra, Peter Schneider - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (2018)

Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra, Peter Schneider - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (2018)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 04:04:42 | 1.16 Gb
Genre: Classical | Label: Opus Arte | Catalog: OA CD9033 D

I can remember watching a recording of this production and being somewhat put off by the staging, the light show during the opening prelude and the modern staging and dress. It made the star-struck lovers seem more like a frumpy middle-aged couple on a cruise than people passionately in love, especially in their apparent lack of intimacy. They seldom touched each other. It just did not sit well with me, but that was my personal point of view. Even so, I was quite taken with the sound of the production and by strong performances by all the protagonists.

Elgar Howarth, Philip Jones Ensemble - Richard Wagner: Brass at Walhalla (1985)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Elgar Howarth, Philip Jones Ensemble - Richard Wagner: Brass at Walhalla (1985)

Elgar Howarth, Philip Jones Ensemble - Richard Wagner: Brass at Walhalla (1985)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 196 Mb | Total time: 48:20 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | # 414 149-2 | Recorded: 1984

H.​Arnold in stereoplay 10/85:"Sowohl die Blechbläserstammbesetzung des Ensembles als auch die Holzbläsergäste zeigen sich von der besten Seite mit glanzvollen Solo- passagen und einem hervorragend aufein- ander abgestimmten Gesamtklang,den auch die Technik optimal einfing.​"

Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble, Marc Minkowski - Wagner: Der Fliegende Holländer, Dietsch: Le Vaisseau Fantôme (2013)

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Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble, Marc Minkowski - Wagner: Der Fliegende Holländer, Dietsch: Le Vaisseau Fantôme (2013)

Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble, Marc Minkowski - Wagner: Der Fliegende Holländer, Dietsch: Le Vaisseau Fantôme (2013)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 03:54:57 | 1,12 Gb
Genre: Classical, Opera | Label: Naïve | Catalog: V 5349

When Richard Wagner failed to have his one-act version of Der fliegende Holländer staged at the Paris Opera, the cash-strapped composer sold a synopsis of the plot, written in broken French. This was fashioned into a proper libretto, which was then set to music by Pierre-Louis Dietsch, who enjoyed 11 performances of Le Vasseau fantôme before it was pulled from the repertoire in 1843. Ironically, Wagner's success with Der fliegende Holländer in Dresden happened shortly after that, and the expanded three-act version has remained an essential part of Wagner's canon.

Placido Domingo, Waltraud Meier, Falk Struckmann, Christian Thielemann - Richard Wagner: Parsifal (2006)

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Placido Domingo, Waltraud Meier, Falk Struckmann, Christian Thielemann - Richard Wagner: Parsifal (2006)

Placido Domingo, Waltraud Meier, Falk Struckmann, Christian Thielemann - Richard Wagner: Parsifal (2006)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 03:53:12 | 1 Gb
Genre: Classical, Opera | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | Catalog: 00289 477 6006

All of Wagner’s operas require a sure hand in the pit: no run-of-the-mill répétiteur will do. But two works, in particular, depend on the conductor as much as anyone on stage for success in performance Tristan and Parsifal. By choosing these two for the first complete Wagner dramas he’s committed to disc, Thielemann is letting us know just how important Wagner’s music is to him and how seriously he wants to be taken as a Wagner interpreter. With this new Parsifal, the conductor demonstrates that he’s a Wagnerian with a point of view, and a master of the composer’s huge musicodramatic structures.

Yevgeny Mravinsky conducts the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra (2007) 12 CD Box Set

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Yevgeny Mravinsky conducts the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra (2007) 12 CD Box Set

Yevgeny Mravinsky conducts the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra (2007) 12 CD Box Set
Beethoven - Shostakovich - Wagner - Mozart - Tchaikovsky - Mussorgsky - Glinka - Glazunov

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 2.5 Gb | Scans included | Time: 09:57:02
Genre: Classical, Orchestral | Label: Erato | # 2564-69890-5

This compilation covers 20 years of live recordings made by conductor Yevgeny Mravinsky and the then-named Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra for Erato. Mravinsky led that orchestra for nearly 50 years, from 1938 until his death. His last recording was that of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 12, made in 1984, found on Disc 3 here. His interpretations of Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky were highly regarded, so it's not surprising that several of their symphonies are here. There are also symphonies by Mozart and Beethoven in this set; tone poems by Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky; and orchestral excerpts from operas by Wagner, Glinka, and Glazunov. The final disc contains a rare recording of a rehearsal led by Mravinsky, something few outsiders were ever allowed to witness. Even though he was an elder statesman of Russian music at the time of these recordings, there is still precision and energy in his interpretations.