Wagner: Parsifal

This work always sounds best recorded ‘live’ in Bayreuth, but this recording, made as a soundtrack for Hans-Jürgen’s Syberberg’s extraordinary film, is very fine if not overwhelming. Michael Tanner

 

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4

Michael Tanner

Published: January 20, 2012 at 4:28 pm

COMPOSERS: Wagner
LABELS: Warner
WORKS: Parsifal
PERFORMER: Schöne, Lloyd, Goldberg, Haugland, Minton; Prague Philharmonic Choir; Monte Carlo PO/Armin Jordan
CATALOGUE NO: 2564 68752-5

This work always sounds best recorded ‘live’ in Bayreuth, but this recording, made as a soundtrack for Hans-Jürgen’s Syberberg’s extraordinary film, is very fine if not overwhelming. 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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