Posts Tagged ‘Wagner’
The Classical Review’s 10 Best Recordings of 2010 – Dec 22, 2010
GOLIJOV La Pasión según San Marcos (St. Mark Passion) (DG) Fervent performances in a faultless recording made a compelling claim for Osvaldo Golijov’s “powerful [...]
WAGNER Die Walküre; Götterdämmerung – Jul 26, 2010
The half-century-long saga of Decca Records’ attempts to cut through a tangle of bureaucratic obstacles in order to issue the cycles of Wagner’s Der [...]
DG releases live Wagner disc from Welser-Möst and Brueggergosman – Jul 21, 2010
Hailed as likely to have “made legions of new Wagner fans”, a concert by the Cleveland Orchestra conducted by its music director Franz Welser-Möst [...]
SIMON O’NEILL Father and Son – Jul 02, 2010
The title Father and Son might suggest that this is a duet disc, but in fact father-son duets are nowhere present in these or [...]
WAGNER Der Ring des Nibelungen – Jun 21, 2010
More than a few stage directors have wrecked themselves on the shoals of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen by settling for an epic sound-and-light [...]
WAGNER Lohengrin – May 26, 2010
While EMI was suggesting some years back that their Domingo/Pappano Tristan und Isolde could be the last ever Wagner opera to be recorded in [...]
SEMYON BYCHKOV – May 19, 2010
“The only reason to do it is because you are in love with it.” Consummated in a magisterial, newly released recording, Semyon Bychkov’s love [...]
