RICHARD WAGNER (1813-1883)

 

Der Ring Des Nibelungen

 

A Stage Festival for Three Days and a Preliminary Evening

First day

 

The Second Cycle with cast change

 

Die Walküre

Brünnhilde......Martha Mödl

Sieglinde......Astrid Varnay

Wotan......Hans Hotter

Siegmund......Ramón Vinay

Hunding......Josef Greindl

Fricka......Georgine von Milinkovic

 

Tannhäuser

Excerpts

Overture, Venusberg Bacchanal (Act I)

Wolfram’s Ballad & Duet (Act III)

Wolfram......Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Tannhäuser......Wolfgang Windgassen

 

Bayreuth Festival Chorus & Orchestra / Joseph Keilberth

 

Chorus master: Wilhelm Pitz

 

Recorded Festspielhaus Bayreuth 1955

 

Testament 4cds SBT41432