Wagner: The Operas
including the Ring cycle
Norman Bailey (Der Holländer), Janis Martin (Senta), René Kollo (Erik), Martti Talvela (Daland), Werner Krenn (Der Steuermann), Isola Jones (Mary), Plácido Domingo (Lohengrin), Jessye Norman (Elsa), Siegmund Nimsgern (Telramund), Eva Randová (Ortrud), Han Sotin (Landgraf), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau...
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Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer
- Norman Bailey (bass-baritone), Isola Jones (mezzo-soprano), René Kollo (tenor), Martti Talvela (bass), Janis Martin (soprano), Werner Krenn (tenor)
- Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Chorus
- Sir Georg Solti
- Recorded: 1976-05-18
- Recording Venue: Medinah Temple, Chicago
Overture
"Hojoje! Hallojo! Ho!...Kein Zweifel! Sieben Meilen"
"Mit Gewitter und Sturm aus fernem Meer...Von des Südens Gestad'"
Wagner: Lohengrin
- Siegmund Nimsgern (bass), Czeslawa Slania (soprano), Plácido Domingo (tenor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Anna Gonda (soprano), Jessye Norman (soprano), Eva Randová (mezzo-soprano), Hans Sotin (bass), Brigitte Poschner (soprano), Madelyn Renee (soprano), Thomas Mohr (bass), Anton Scharinger (bass), Alfred Sramek (bass), Peter Jelosits (tenor)
- Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Staatsoper
- Sir Georg Solti
- Recorded: 1985-11-11
- Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna
Prelude to Act 1
"Hört, Grafen, Edle, Freie von Brabant!"
"Dank, König, dir, daß du zu richten kamst!"
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
- Kurt Rydl (bass), René Kollo (tenor), Norman Bailey (bass-baritone), Rudolf A Hartmann (bass), Adolfo Dallapozza (tenor), Adalbert Kraus (tenor), Julia Hamari (mezzo-soprano), Martin Egel (baritone), Werner Klumlikboldt (bass), Hannelore Bode (soprano), Wolfgang Appel (tenor), Kurt Moll (bass), Bernd Weikl (baritone), Herbert Berger-Tuna (singer), Max Schönherr (tenor), Michel Sénéchal (tenor), Gerd Nienstedt (bass)
- Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Staatsoper, Gumpoldskirchner Spatzen
- Sir Georg Solti
- Recorded: 1975-10
- Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna
Prelude
"Da zu dir der Heiland kam"
"Verweilt! - Ein Wort"
Wagner: Parsifal
- Marga Schiml (contralto), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Hans Hotter (bass), Zoltan Kelemen (bass), Lucia Popp (soprano), Gottlob Frick (bass), Margarita Lilowa (mezzo-soprano), Herbert Lackner (bass), Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano), Robert Tear (tenor), Ewald Aichberger (baritone), Gillian Knight (mezzo-soprano), Heinz Zednik (tenor), René Kollo (tenor), Anne Howells (soprano), Rotraud Hansmann (soprano), Alison Hargan (soprano), Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano)
- Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Sängerknaben, Wiener Staatsoper
- Sir Georg Solti
- Recorded: 1971-12
- Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna
Prelude
"He! Ho! Waldhüter ihr"
"Seht dort, die wilde Reiterin"
Wagner: Das Rheingold
- Kurt Böhme (bass), Waldemar Kmentt (tenor), Jean Madeira (mezzo-soprano), Hetty Plumacher (contralto), Kirsten Flagstad (soprano), Gustav Neidlinger (bass), Claire Watson (soprano), Paul Kuentz (tenor), Ira Malaniuk (contralto), Walter Kreppel (bass), George London (bass-baritone), Oda Balsborg (soprano), Eberhard Wächter (baritone), Set Svanholm (tenor)
- Wiener Philharmoniker
- Sir Georg Solti
- Recorded: 1958-09-24
- Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna
Vorspiel
"Weia! Waga! Woge du Welle!"
"Garstig glatter glitschriger Glimmer!"
Wagner: Die Walküre
- James King (tenor), Vera Schlosser (soprano), Marilyn Tyler (soprano), Hans Hotter (bass-baritone), Régine Crespin (soprano), Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano), Ernst Wiemann (bass), Gottlob Frick (bass), Birgit Nilsson (soprano), Vera Little (mezzo-soprano), Claudia Hellmann (mezzo-soprano), Helga Dernesch (soprano), Brigitte Fassbaender (contralto), Berit Lindholm (soprano), Helen Watts (contralto)
- Wiener Philharmoniker
- Sir Georg Solti
- Recorded: 1965-11
- Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna
Orchestervorspiel
"Wes Herd dies auch, hier muß ich rasten"
"Kühlende Labung gab mir der Quell"
Wagner: Siegfried
- Birgit Nilsson (soprano), Gerhard Stolze (tenor), Wolfgang Windgassen (tenor), Hans Hotter (bass), Gustav Neidlinger (bass), Kurt Böhme (bass), Marga Höffgen (contralto), Dame Joan Sutherland (soprano)
- Wiener Philharmoniker
- Sir Georg Solti
- Recorded: 1962-05-08
- Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna
Vorspiel
Zwangvolle Plage! Müh ohne Zweck!
"Hoiho! Hoiho! Hau ein! Hau ein!"
Wagner: Götterdämmerung
- Lucia Popp (soprano), Helen Watts (contralto), Birgit Nilsson (soprano), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Gustav Neidlinger (bass), Maureen Guy (mezzo-soprano), Grace Hoffman (mezzo-soprano), Wolfgang Windgassen (tenor), Claire Watson (soprano), Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano), Gottlob Frick (bass), Gwyneth Jones (soprano), Anita Valkki (soprano)
- Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Staatsoper
- Sir Georg Solti
- Recorded: 1964-11
- Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna
"Welch Licht leuchtet dort?"
Treu beratner Verträge Runen
"Es ragt die Burg, von Riesen gebaut"
Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70 - Paris version
- Helga Dernesch (soprano), Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano), Norman Bailey (bass-baritone), René Kollo (tenor), Kurt Equiluz (tenor), Victor Braun (baritone), Werner Hollweg (tenor), Hans Sotin (bass), Manfred Jungwirth (bass)
- Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Sängerknaben, Wiener Staatsoper
- Sir Georg Solti
- Recorded: 1970-10-03
- Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna
Overture . . . "Naht euch dem Strande"
"Geliebter, sag', wo weilt dein Sinn?"
"Dir töne Lob! Die Wunder sei'n gepriesen"
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
- Peter Klein (tenor), Waldemar Kmentt (tenor), Ernst Kozub (tenor), Regina Resnik (mezzo-soprano), Birgit Nilsson (soprano), Tom Krause (baritone), Arnold van Mill (bass), Fritz Uhl (tenor), Theodor Kirschbichler (bass)
- Wiener Philharmoniker, Singverein Der Gesellschaft Der Musikfreunde
- Sir Georg Solti
- Recorded: 1960-09-06
- Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna
Prelude - Langsam und smachtend
"Westwärts schweift der Blick"
"Frisch weht der Wind der Heimat zu"