Wagner: Parsifal
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Composer: Richard WagnerConductor: Hans Knappertsbusch
Orchestra: Bayreuther Festspiele Orchester
Performer: Anja Silja
Performer: Dorothea Siebert
Performer: Else-Margrete Gardelli
Performer: Georg Paskuda
Performer: George London
Performer: Gerd Nienstedt
Performer: Gerhard Stolze
Performer: Gundula Janowitz
Performer: Gustav Neidlinger
Performer: Hans Hotter
Performer: Irene Dalis
Performer: Jess Thomas
Performer: Martti Talvela
Performer: Niels Moller
Performer: Rita Bartos
Performer: Sona Cervena
Performer: Ursula Boese
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2006-11-14
Music Label: Philips
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Free Music Review: I just don't get it?
Hit: 3 Stars
Transcendent, mystical, profound, the essential...I have read those words thrown around a lot in regards to this recording of Parsifal, and being new to the piece I thought...wow I can't go wrong...well I can and I did. I am trying to get into this recording and....well I can't. Everytime I want to disappear into the sonic landscape, the boxy, muddle, ill defined sound of this recording along with extraneous ambient noise pulls me right back out. Being such a subdued piece in so many places the ambient noise becomes annoying. I own the '53 Krauss Ring and in that context all of the noise doesn't bother me, perhaps it has something to do with extraordinarily wide range of dynamics in that cycle. Anyway, I have know doubt that this was an evening for the ages and that this concert would have left its attendees stunned and moved, but within my living room and from a piece such as this I need much higher fidelity than this...and for those who can listen past the noise then more power to you. I cannot and I'll learn in the future to listen before you buy.
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"Knappertsbusch's expansive and dedicated 1962 reading is caught superbly in the Philips set, arguably the finest live recording ever made in the Festspeilhaus at Bayreuth, with outstanding singing from Jess Thomas as Parsifal and Hans Hotter as Gurnemanz...its spiritual quality and the sound has undoubtedly been further enhanced in the remastering for CD."--The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs "This is not merely one of Philips's Great Recordings but also one of the greatest sets of all time. Every time one returns to it, its inspiration and distinction seem to have been enhanced, its all-enveloping eloquence the more evident. Its overriding advantage over all other recordings of the work is Knappertsbusch's masterly traversal of the score, even more aware of dramatic impetus, long line and Wagnerian import...There have been much-admired Parsifals in more recent times but none of these studio-made sets quite catches the immediacy and inevitability of this moving and elevated version, now sounding freshened in its remastered form. At mid-price, a very special experience is in store for any newcomer to the work."--Gramophone Cast GEORGE LONDON Amfortas MARTTI TALVELA Titurel HANS HOTTER Gurnemanz JESS THOMAS Parsifal GUSTAV NEIDLINGER Klingsor IRENE DALIS Kundry Chor und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele Hans Knappertsbusch, conductorClassical Music CDs
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