Recommended Recordings & Books

Below are listed some recordings recommended by some of our members. This listing is here to assist fans of Wagner music to find quality recordings which have been recommended by our members. Also listed below are some books which might be of interest.         Revised February 2014

Recordings
Books

Music from John Allen's talk on 23 January 2014 - recordings of some of Wagner's lesser-known compositions:

• Wagner Complete Piano Music: Pier Paulo Vincenzi. Double CD. Brilliant Classics label
• The other Wagner . Symphonic, Vocal and Piano Music. Triple CD   EMI .
• The essential Wagner. Double CD EMI

THE WAGNER LEGACY John Allen

Richard Wagner (Leipzig 1813-1883)
01 PARSIFAL ( Bayreuth 1882) Act 3 transformation scene -VPO/Solti

Engelbert Humperdink (Siegburg 1854-1921)
02 HÄNSEL UND GRETEL ( Weimar 1893)
Act 1 Dance duet -Edita Gruberova I Ann Murray
03 KÖNIGSKINDER (NY Met 1911)
Act 3 Final scene -Hermann Prey (Der Spielmann)

Siegfried Wagner (Triebschen, Switzerland 1869-1930)
04 DER BÄRENHÄUTER The Man in a Bear's Skin ( Munich 1899)
Act 3 Hans and the Devil in the forest -Volker Horn (Hans Kraft) / Adalbert Waller (Devil)
05 DIE HEILIGE LINDE (1924 unperfonned)
Act 3 Gundelind's scene with the nobles -Iris Vennil1ion

Richard Strauss (Munich 1864-1949)
06 GUNTRAM ( Weimar 1894)
Act 2 Guntram's farewell to Freidhild -Reiner Goldberg
07 & 08 SALOME (Dresden 9 Dec 1905)
Finale, Salome with Jochanann's head -Cheryl Studer I Giuseppe Sinopoli

Wilhelm Kienzl (Waizenkirchen 1857-1941)
09 DON QUIXOTE ( Berlin 1898) Quixote arrives at the inn -Thomas Mohr (Don Quixote)
10 DER EV ANGELIMANN ( Berlin 1895) "Selig sind, die Verfolgung leiden" (6'35) 06
Fritz Wunderlich as the itinerant preacher Mathias

Franz Schreker (Monaco 1878-1934)
11 DER FERNE KLANG ( Frankfurt 1912) Fritz comes to inn and proposes marriage to Greta
Thomas Harper (Fritz) I Elena Grigorescu (Greta)

Alexander Zemlinsky (Vienna 1871-1942)
12 EINE FLORENTINISCHE TRAGODIE ( Stuttgart 1917) Fight and final scene
David Kuebler (Prince Guido) I Donnie Ray Albert (Simone) / Deborah Voight (Bianca)

Erich Wolfgang Korogold (Brno 1897-1957)
13 DIE TOTE STADT (Hamburg & Cologne 1920) "Gluck, das mir verlieb"
Angela Denoke ( Marietta) I Torsten Kerl (paul)
14 DAS WUNDER DER HELIANE (HamburgI927) the opposite of Zeitoper
Final scene -Anna Tomowa-Sintow (Heliane) / John David de Haan (Der Fremde)

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FIFTY YEARS OF GREAT WAGNERIAN SINGING
1950 - 2000
a personal choice - Ian Fox

The Wagner Society
Dublin 23rd March 2005

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Recordings

OPERA'S ON C.D.

Der Fliegende Holländer:

Staatskapelle Berlin 1960
8212420972

Bayreuther Festspiele (1961)
442103-2

Tannhäuser:

Staatsoper Berlin (1961)
7632142

Bayreuther Festspiele (1962)
434607-2

Lohengrin:

Bayreuther Festspiele
446337-2

Boston Symphony Orchestra
7432150164-2

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg:

(1974) Bayreuther Festspiele
434611-2

Der Ring des Niblungen:

An Introduction -Deryck Cooke
443581-2

Solti:

Wiener Philharmoniker
Box Set 2894555552

Tristan und Isolde:

(1966) Bayreuther Festspiele
434425-2

Parsifal:

Bayreuther Festspiele (1962)
416390-2

Montecarlo
2292-45662-2

Wiener Philharmoniker
417143-2

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Books

USEFUL OPERA GUIDES

Royal Opera/English National Opera

No.
6. Tristan und Isolde
12. Der Fliegende Hollander
19. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
34. Parsifal
39. Tannhäuser
47. Lohengrin

Der Ring Des Nibelungen

35. Das Rheingold
21. Die Walküre
28. Siegfried
31. Gotterdämmerung

John Calder -London

BOOKS

Members may like to read some of the following books, if they do not already know them.
A number are out of print, but can often be obtained through public libraries.

Bayreuth The Early Years Edited by Robert Hartford Cambridge University Press -An account of the Wagner Festival ,1876-1914,as seen by celebrated visitors & participants-
ISBN 0521238226.This is a marvellous addition to any Wagner lovers library.

I Saw the World End -a Study of Wagner's Ring. Clarendon. Deryck Cooke, 1979.
ISBN 0-19-315318-1

Wagner and Philosophy. Bryan Magee. Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, pub. 2000.
ISBN 0-713-99480-0

Wagner Remembered. Stewart Spencer. Faber, 2000.
ISBN 0-571-19653-5 (Excellent)

Acts. Autobiography of Wolfgang Wagner. Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1994.
ISBN 0297813498.

A Study of Wagner. Ernest Newman.

Ring Resounding. John Culshaw. Secker & Warburg, 1967.

The Perfect Wagnerite. George Bernard Shaw.

Wieland Wagner. Geoffrey Skelton. Gollancz, 1971.

Hans Hotter -Man and Artist. Penelope Turing. John Calder, 1983.

The Ring. Dawson, 1976 (English/German).
ISBN 0712906983.

Wagner. J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1984. Barry Millington.
ISBN 0460-02473-6.

Parsifal. Cambridge University Press. Lucy Beckett, 1981.
ISBN 0521296625.

Bayreuth. Yale University Press, 1994. Frederic Spotts.
ISBN 0-300-06665-1.

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