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Die Walküre
Astrid Varnay, Alexander Kipnis
Metropolitan Opera Ch & O/Erich Leinsdorf
rec. 1941
8.110058-60

Review by Tony Duggan

Tristan and Isolde
Lauritz Melchior, Kirsten Flagstad
London PO/Fritz Reiner
rec. 1936
8.110068-70

Review by Tony Duggan

Siegfried (highlights)
Lauritz Melchior, Heinrich Tessmer, Florence Easton
Vienna State Opera O/Karl Alwin; Royal Opera House, Covent Garden O/Robert Heger
rec. 1929-32
8.110091-92

Reviews by Colin Clarke and Robert Hugill

Tannhäuser
Sigismund Pilinszk, Maria Müller
Bayreuth Festival Ch & O/Karl Elmendorff
rec. 1930
8.110094-95

Review by Robert Farr

Tristan and Isolde
Nanny Larsen-Todsen, Gunnar Graarud
Bayreuth Festival Ch & O/Karl Elmendorff
rec. 1928
8.110200-02

Review by Jonathan Woolf

Parsifal
Wolfgang Windgassen, Martha Modl, George London
Bayreuth Festival Ch & O/Hans Knappertsbusch
rec. 1951
8.110221-24

Reviews by Robert Farr, Tony Haywood and Jonathan Woolf

Lohengrin
Lauritz Melchior, Astrid Varnay
Metropolitan Opera Ch & O/Erich Leinsdorf
rec. 1943
8.110235

Review by Göran Forsling

Die Walküre (Acts I & II)
Lauritz Melchior, Hans Hotter, Lotte Lehmann
Vienna PO/Bruno Walter
rec. 1935-38
8.110250-51

Reviews by Robert Farr and Jonathan Woolf

Lohengrin
Wolfgang Windgassen, Eleanor Steber
Bayreuth Festival Ch & O/Joseph Keilberth
rec. 1953
8.110308-10

Reviews by Colin Clarke and Göran Forsling

Tristan und Isolde
Ludwig Suthaus, Kirsten Flagstad, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Ch, Philharmonia O/Wilhelm Furtwängler.
rec. 1952
8.110321-24

Review by Robert Farr

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Paul Schoeffler, Otto Edelmann, Hilde Gueden
Vienna State Opera Ch, Vienna PO/Hans Knappertsbusch
rec. 1950/1
8.111128-31

Review by Göran Forsling

The Ring Cycle
Artur Bodanzky, Erich Leinsdorf
rec. 1936-41
8.501106

Review by Jonathan Woolf

 


 

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