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Tag Archives: Wagner
The root of all evil: Jurowski and the LPO pair Rachmaninov’s Miserly Knight with Wagner’s greedy dwarf
Rachmaninov: The Miserly Knight/ Wagner: Das Rheingold *** LPO/Jurowski, 21st January 2015 Vladimir Jurowski is a wily programmer. The London Philharmonic’s season has been most interesting, their “Rachmaninoff Inside Out” series digging out rarities and putting them into context. In … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Shagidullin, Annabel Arden, Das Rheingold, Harriet Williams, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Maxim Mikhailov, Natalya Romaniw, Peter Bronder, Rachmaninov, Rowan Hellier, Sergei Leiferkus, The Miserly Knight, Vsevolod Grivnov, Wagner
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A brace of ghost ships
Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer/ Dietsch: Le vaisseau fantôme (Naïve) *** One of the more enterprising celebrations to mark Wagner’s bicentenary last year now arrives on disc courtesy of Naïve. Conductor Marc Minkowski had been considering recording Die Feen, but opted … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernard Richard, Dietsch, Eric Cutler, Evgeny Nikitin, Helende Schneiderman, Ingela Brimberg, Marc Minkowski, Mika Kares, Naive, Russell Braun, Sally Matthews, Ugo Rabec, Wagner
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Fairies at the bottom of Wagner’s garden
Wagner: Die Feen Chelsea Opera Group, Queen Elizabeth Hall, 17th March 2013 There are fairies at the bottom of the garden. On the Wagner-Verdi bicentenary dual carriageway, the Chelsea Opera Group charabanc trundled into town for the first of its … Continue reading
Twilight of the Gods: an abattoir of ‘bleeding chunks’
Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen (highlights): DG The cover of “Twilight of the Gods” features Bryn Terfel brooding darkly, a raven perched on his shoulder. Twilight of the Gods? But isn’t Wotan out of the picture by Götterdämmerung? Despite the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bryn Terfel, Das Rheingold, Deborah Voigt, Der Ring des Nibelungen, DG, Die Walküre, Dwayne Croft, Eric Owens, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Gerhard Siegel, Götterdämmerung, Hans-Peter König, IRR, James Levine, Jay Hunter Morris, Jonas Kaufmann, Metropolitan Opera, Mojca Erdmann, Robert Lepage, Siegfried, Stephanie Blythe, Wagner
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