June: Featured Classical Music CDs
DIE WALKÜRE
OP1222. Live Performance, 1955, w.Keilberth Cond. Bayreuth Festival Ensemble; Ramón Vinay, Hans Hotter, Astrid Varnay, Gré Brouwenstijn, etc. (England) 4-Testament Stereo SBT4 1391, from Unpublished Decca recording. Outstanding sound! $79.90, the Set.
SIEGFRIED
OP1122. Live Performance, 1955, w.Keilberth Cond. Bayreuth Festival Ensemble; Wolfgang Windgassen, Hans Hotter, Astrid Varnay, Paul Kuén, Gustav Neidlinger, Maria von Ilosvay, Josef Greindl, etc. (England) 4-Testament SBT4 1392, from Unpublished Decca recording. Outstanding sound! $79.90, the Set.
"For more than 50 years, the RING recorded by Decca at Bayreuth in 1955 has lain unheard in the company’s archives….Of course, in one form or another, the Bayreuth RING cycles of the 1950s…have been made available on official and unofficial labels over the years, but none of those – with their many merits – has anything like the sound-quality achieved here….No opera house or recording has since rivaled the cast assembled here, not even the Decca set by which time Hotter, Windgassen and Neidlinger were all some 10 years older. In 1955 all three are the peak of their form and – singing live rather than in the studio – are that much more involved and involving."
- Alan Blyth, Gramophone, March, 2006
OP1222. Live Performance, 1955, w.Keilberth Cond. Bayreuth Festival Ensemble; Ramón Vinay, Hans Hotter, Astrid Varnay, Gré Brouwenstijn, etc. (England) 4-Testament Stereo SBT4 1391, from Unpublished Decca recording. Outstanding sound! $79.90, the Set.
SIEGFRIED
OP1122. Live Performance, 1955, w.Keilberth Cond. Bayreuth Festival Ensemble; Wolfgang Windgassen, Hans Hotter, Astrid Varnay, Paul Kuén, Gustav Neidlinger, Maria von Ilosvay, Josef Greindl, etc. (England) 4-Testament SBT4 1392, from Unpublished Decca recording. Outstanding sound! $79.90, the Set.
"For more than 50 years, the RING recorded by Decca at Bayreuth in 1955 has lain unheard in the company’s archives….Of course, in one form or another, the Bayreuth RING cycles of the 1950s…have been made available on official and unofficial labels over the years, but none of those – with their many merits – has anything like the sound-quality achieved here….No opera house or recording has since rivaled the cast assembled here, not even the Decca set by which time Hotter, Windgassen and Neidlinger were all some 10 years older. In 1955 all three are the peak of their form and – singing live rather than in the studio – are that much more involved and involving."
- Alan Blyth, Gramophone, March, 2006
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