Showing posts with label Wagner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wagner. Show all posts
Jul 3, 2024

Wagner: Preludes and Overtures (CD Review)

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by Karl Nehring   Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Act I – Prelude; Rienzi: Overture; Lohengrin: Act I – Prelude; Lohengrin: Act III: - Prelu...
Sep 20, 2023

Recent Releases No. 58 (CD Reviews)

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  by Karl Nehring What Music Tells Me . Beethoven:   Egmont Overture ; Wagner (1813-1883);   Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral  (from   Loh...
Nov 20, 2022

Wagner: The Golden Ring (SACD review)

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Great Scenes from Der Ring Des Nibelungen. Various singers; Sir Georg Solti, Vienna Philharmonic. Decca SACD 485 3364 (remastered).   By Joh...
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Nov 16, 2022

Igor Levit: Tristan (CD review)

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(CD 1 ) Liszt: Liebestraum No. 3; Henze: Tristan; (CD2) Wagner: Tristan und Isolde Prelude (Piano arrangement by Zoltán Kocsis); Mahler: Sym...
May 25, 2022

New Releases, No. 31 (CD reviews)

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By Karl W. Nehring Yolanda Kondonassis: Five Minutes for Earth . Takuma Itoh: Koholā Sings (Humpback Whales) ; Michael Daugherty: Hear the D...
May 11, 2022

Stokowski Spectacular! (CD mini-reviews)

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By Karl W. Nehring One of the most fascinating conductors of modern times was the late Leopold Stokowski (1882-1987), whose life story is on...
May 6, 2021

Visions of Childhood (CD review)

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April Fredrick, soprano; Kenneth Woods, English Symphony Orchestra. Nimbus Alliance NI 6408. By Karl W. Nehring This is an unusual album in ...
Aug 28, 2019

Wagner: Preludes and Orchestral Music (CD review)

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Christian Thielemann, the Philadelphia Orchestra. DG 289 453 485-2. Good heavens, yet more bleeding chunks of Wagner? Well, not exactly....
Jul 1, 2018

Wagner: Orchestral Music from The Ring (CD review)

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JoAnn Falletta, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. Naxos 8.573839. Since entering the musical stage in the late 1970's, JoAnn Falletta...
Jun 17, 2018

Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 "Romantic" (CD review)

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Also, Wagner: Lohengrin Prelude. Andris Nelsons, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. DG 479 7577. Begin rant: I may be the only the person left...
Mar 22, 2017

Maazel Conducts Wagner, Volumes 1 & 2 (CD review)

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Waltraud Meier, mezzo-soprano; Lorin Maazel, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. RCA 09026-63143-2 and RCA 74321-68717-2. Yes, there was life a...