I was off to bed when I received the following from the LPO and as it is only available till 12 October I thought I would get it out to you ...
Listen for free: Homage to Mussorgsky - Vladimir Jurowski - LPO
Wednesday, 28 September 2011
Harry Kupfer/Barenboim Bayreuth Ring: re-released and remastered Oct 2011
Bayreuth Festival Production of Harry Kupfer’s The Complete Cycle of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, conducted by Daniel Barenboim. Newl...
Tuesday, 27 September 2011
Ferdinand Frantz "Wotan´s Farewell" - Moralt's Ring Cycle, 1949
Perhaps one of the most underrated - or at least, least heard historic ring cycles of all time. I intend in the next few weeks - time permit...
The MET's Fabio Luisi - exactly who does he think he is?
Or at least who is he? A little background from the Wall Street Journal . As always, media added by the TW By HEIDI WALESON On Sept. 15,...
The Wagnerian at Twylah - help needed
As more observant readers may have noticed I am interested in the use of "social media" as a way of spreading Wagner related media...
The Lord of the Rings Music Video, Wagner's Ring Cycle
The creator of this video has kindly contact me and pointed out this is part 1 of six. There is also a post on how and why he made it. For m...
Saturday, 24 September 2011
Susan Graham: on leaving the Rodeo for Strauss and flirting with Kundry
Susan Graham grew up in New Mexico and Texas, in an extended family of ranchers, stunt pilots and rodeo-riders. One uncle, who pioneered the...
Deborah Voigt goes all Wagner: 2011
Deborah Voigt launches her 2011-12 season on September 21 when she joins the New York Philharmonic in its season-opening gala in a perfo...
Clifton Forbis: Tristan Teaches Dallas a thing or two
Clifton Forbis, a world-renowned operatic tenor, has been appointed chair of the voice department in the Division of Music at Southern Metho...
Wednesday, 21 September 2011
Listen Now: The very first Parsifal, Hermann Winkelmann - Tannhauser - Stets soll nur dir (1905)!
For those unfamiliar Winkelmann not only worked directly with Wagner but was Parsifal at its premiere. And, for anyone interested, I will ha...
EMMY DESTINN / ERNST KRAUS - 1906 - Das süsse Lied verhallt - Lohengrin
One of the wonders of Wagner recordings is to think that this was recorded so relatively soon after Wagner's death and that both of the...
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Hermann Levi's Shame and Parsifal's Guilt - Laurence Dreyfus
Hermann Levi The following is the first few paragraphs of Laurence Dreyfus counter argument to the oft held revisionist notions that Par...
Tiroler Festspiele Erl, 2011: Mona Somm - "Geliebter komm"
Tiroler Festspiele Erl, 2011 Mona Somm - Venus Luis Chapa - Tannhäuser Gustav Kuhn - musikalische Leitung und Regie Lenka Radecky - Kostüme
Toscanini: Tristan und Isolde - Vorspiel
NBC Symphony Orchestra
MET Ring 2011: Siegfried Meets Fritz Lang
Peter Doig Leading contemporary artist Peter Doig will open Siegfried + Poster Project, a new exhibition inspired by Wagner's epic De...
Monday, 19 September 2011
80 members of the Bayerische Staatsoper say NO to Japan. The rest have their water airlrfted from Germany
Berlin — Some 80 members of the Bavarian State Opera have refused to join its tour of Japan next Friday because of radiation concerns posed ...
Sunday, 18 September 2011
The Wagnerian Podcast No 1: Siegfried Wagner & Richard Strauss conduct Tristan
"At lunch a dismal occurrence; Fidi (Siegfried) behaves badly toward his father; the dreadful thought that he might prove unworthy of h...
Saturday, 17 September 2011
Listen now: John Caird discusses WNO new Don Giovanni plus production images
John Caird, Director of WNO's Don Giovanni appeared on In Tune on Radio 3 on the 14. You can still listen to this for the next few days ...
A Q&A with Sir John Tomlinson
The Arts Desk publishes the first part of an interview with John Tomlinson today - part of which can be found below. Q&A Special: Ba...
Listen Now: Tristan und Isolde, Bayreuth 1928
Not complete but there is over two hours here. Act 1 Act 2 Act 3 Cast: Gunnar Graarud -- Tristan Ivar Andrese...
Friday, 16 September 2011
ROH Ring Cycle 2012: Full Cast
Sorry, been meaning to update this since last week. But then, little I didn't already tell you about months ago . By the way, should yo...
Another Wagner Book: Richard Wagner's Women
Yes, I know, thee are a lot of books on Wagner. Whether this will be as interesting and as well written as Jane Glover's Mozart's W...
Zubin Mehta receives Furtwängler Prize
Mehta is interviewed by Anastassia Boutsko over at dw-world.de Zubin Mehta has joined the ranks of Kurt Masur and Kent Nagano in receiving...
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