Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen (excerpts)

Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen (excerpts)

Five versions of the final scene of Götterdämmerung, four of them by Flagstad, make this a set for the Wagner specialist. Michael Tanner

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Michael Tanner

Published: January 20, 2012 at 4:23 pm

COMPOSERS: Wagner
LABELS: Gala
WORKS: Der Ring des Nibelungen (excerpts)
PERFORMER: Flagstad, Leider, Nezadal, Watson, Lorenz, Melchior; cond. Böhm, Furtwängler, Lange etc
CATALOGUE NO: GL 100.671 (1936-58)

Five versions of the final scene of Götterdämmerung, four of them by Flagstad, make this a set for the Wagner specialist. Michael Tanner

Michael Tanner

Journalist and Critic, BBC Music Magazine

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.
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