DVD
Issue:
January 2010 
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'This is the recording of Meistersinger to get, in any format' Michael Tanner
Wagner
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Falk Struckmann, Ain Anger, Johan Botha, Adrian Eröd, Ricarda Merbeth, Michael Schade; Vienna SO Choir & Orchestra/Christian Thielemann; dir. Otto Schenk (Vienna 2008)
Medici Arts 2072488 (NTSC system; dts 5.1; 16.9 picture format) 239 mins (2 discs)
For a full review of this disc, take a look at
the January issue of BBC Music Magazine
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