Wiener Staatsoper, Christian Thielemann – Wagner: Ring (2013/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 14:29:50 minutes | 14,93 GB | Genre: Classical
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Christian Thielemanns reading of Wagners complete Ring Cycle at the Wiener Staatsoper in 2011 was universally hailed as one of the greatest Wagnerian events of the last half-century and is now being released as a beautiful box set containing 14 CDs of the four Ring operas and 2 DVDs featuring four introductory films to each opera.
With the Chorus and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera and an outstanding cast of todays leading dramatic singers, these performances set the standard for Wagner interpretation in the 21st Century.
The recordings were made live by ORF, capturing all the excitement of the opera house performances.
The 4 documentary films were directed by acclaimed producer Eric Schulz, complementing the audio recordings, providing an introduction, commentary and analysis by experts, including conductor Christian Thielemann.
Booklet contains synopses in German, English and French and libretti in German and English.
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Wiener Staatsoper – Richard Wagner : Götterdämmerung (2013/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 04:27:06 minutes | 4,56 GB | Genre: Classical
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The three Norns are spinning the rope of Fate and discussing the past, the present and the future: Alberich’s theft of the Rhine gold, the curse of the ring, Wotan’s act of self-constitution in which he cleaved his spear, with all the scared pacts carved into it, out of the World Ash, which then withered and was cut down, and finally Siegfried`s meeting with Wotan. When the rope of Fate breaks, the alarmed Norns descend to their mother, Erda.
On the Valkyries’ rock, Siegfried takes his leave of Brünnhilde; she recited runes to protect him. As a token of his love, Siegfried gives her the ring of the Nibelungen.
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Wiener Staatsoper – Richard Wagner : Das Rheingold (L’Or du Rhin) (2013/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:28:07 minutes | 2,53 GB | Genre: Classical
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Das Rheingold (About this soundpronunciation The Rhinegold), WWV 86A, is the first of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, (English: The Ring of the Nibelung). It was performed, as a single opera, at the National Theatre Munich on 22 September 1869, and received its first performance as part of the Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, on 13 August 1876.
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Wiener Staatsoper – Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 “Missa pro Defunctis” (Remastered 2021) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:00:10 minutes | 654 MB | Genre: Classical
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Hermann Scherchen was a figure of central importance in twentieth-century musical life, his continuing espousal of new music making him one of its foremost proponents in Europe. As a conductor he held a deep respect for the composer’s written text, for instance seeking to perform Beethoven’s symphonies at the tempi indicated in the manuscripts, an unusual practice for the time. Technically he believed that a conductor should commence work with an orchestra only when every aspect of a score had been completely memorised, and could be rehearsed from memory. Film of Scherchen conducting shows him to have possessed a very simple and clear beat. Yet he could summon up performances of raw power as well as of great character. He saw the conductor’s job very much as animating the music beyond the notes, writing in 1935, ‘A music devoid of any emotion, of any aesthetic pleasure or spiritual clarification may be of interest to the professional, but has no meaning whatsoever to the normal listener.’
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