Wagner
Parsifal
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'Christian Elsner is a wonderfully sensitive, expressive Parsifal' Michael Tanner
Wagner
Parsifal
Evgeny Nikitin (bar), Dimitry Ivashchenko (bass0, Franz-Josef Selig (bass), Christian Elsner (ten), Eike Wilm Schulte (bar), Michelle DeYoung (mz), Clemens Bieber (ten), Tuomas Pursio (bass), Olivia Vermeulen (sop), Ulrike Schneider (mz), Michael Smallwood (ten), Timothy Fallon (ten), Julia Borchert (sop), Martina Rüping (sop), Lani Poulson (mz), Sophia Klußmann (sop); Berlin Radio Symphony Chorus/Simon Halsey; Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra/Marek Janowski
PentaTone Classics PTC 5186 401 (hybrid CD/SACD); 226:20mins (4 discs)
Audio clip: from 'He! Ho! Waldhüter Ihr'
For a full review, pick up a copy of the June issue of BBC Music Magazine
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Authors
Michael Tanner is a critic for BBC Music Magazine and the opera critic of The Spectator. He is now a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, having lectured in the Philosophy faculty at the University of Cambridge for 36 years. In 2010, he released The Faber Pocket Guide to Wagner.