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  1. Politics and Religion in Classical Music
    Recently, I got a commission from one of my bosses from my former job, the Bellarmine Jesuit Retreat House in Barrington, Illinois, to do a religious painting. And for this painting, she wants me to do Christ calming the storm while he and his disciples are out at sea. After doing some research...
  2. Opera
    https://www.soltiring.com/ Commemorating the 25th anniversary of Sir Georg Solti’s death (5 September), Decca Classics is proud to announce a new high-definition transfer of the original master tapes of his most celebrated recording: the first stereo studio production of Wagner’s complete...
  3. Opera
    Hi! I wanted to share with you a work I've made, it's just a small collection of leitmotives from Der Ring des Nibelungen which is aimed to non-experts of classical music in order to give them just a glimpse of the legendary world of The Ring, and maybe it can also be a small presentation about...
  4. Classical Music Discussion
    Posting this in case anyone is interested.
  5. Opera
    Hello dear Wagnerians. Of all Knapp's Wagner recordings i have this I also have this Brahms and Bruckner and i know it's irrelevant to the topic Now, i've been desperately thinking about buying his other Wagner recordings. I know he did a Dutchman(Varnay and Windgassen), Ring ...
  6. Orchestral Music
    I know Bruckner was a Wagnerian. I even have heard, whilst attending the 1876 performance of The Ring Cycle, he closed his eyes and listened to the music and in the ending of The Twilight of the Gods he opened his eyes and said why they were burning the girl( Brunhilde). I don't know whether...
  7. Identifying Classical Music
    Is there an English recording of Tannhauser, Lohengrin, Tristan&Isolde, and Parsifal? I have David Parry's 'The Flying Dutchman' and Sir Reginald Goodall's 'The Ring Cycle'. I was wondering if there are other English recordings of the aforementioned operas.
  8. Opera
    There are a lot of threads discussing the best recordings of Wagner operas, but, what about orchestral recordings of the instrumental parts of those operas? Which ones are your favorites?
  9. Opera
    Hello. I am trying to find a full libretto of Wagner's opera Rienzi thorough enough to provide the text for the extra parts found in the Edward Downes recording. I'm frustrated because I have no idea what the text is for that extra bit in act 3. I think that's the part that the original tenor...
  10. Classical Music Discussion
    Hi! I've made an experiment which is meant to prove how the nature of "classical music" wasn't to be just an artistical trend of those times which simply passed away losing any meaning after its glorious moment, but it was something which really got closer to the human essence than any other art...
  11. Classical Music Discussion
    I'm looking for information on the first release by Decca of the complete Solti Ring in a single package. I'm aware of the luxurious packaging of the 1970 release, but was there an earlier release? If so, how was it packaged? musicologyman
  12. Opera
    https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/07/from-the-nhs-to-bayreuth-norman-lebrecht-talks-to-midwife-turned-opera-singer-catherine-foster/ Has anyone heard her? It is one of the most interesting stories about how one became a singer. One could also call the article: From The Queen of the Night to...
  13. Opera
    That's what opera's all about, right? Well, not always. But it's what it should be about. I'm thinking of examples in which the music truly embodies the story told in the libretto, and enriches it too. I just wanted to give two of my favorite examples and invite others to give theirs or comment...
  14. Opera
    For the Wagnerians in the group! Opera critic and philosopher Michael Tanner discusses what he considers to be the best books on Richard Wagner, with a detailed interview discussing his life and operas: https://fivebooks.com/best-books/wagner/
  15. Opera
    Tannhäuser is one of my favourite operas for a good reason: The interesting subject matter (Tannhäuser torn between lust and noble love) which is beautifully mirrored in the music. Venus is representing the realm of sin and the other female lead, Elisabeth, the realm of purity and adherence to...
  16. Recorded Music and Publications
    I currently own the Solti (2009 re-release) and Keilberth (1955) on Testament recordings of the Wagner Ring Cycle. I'm thinking about next steps in my Wagner library . . . what would you all recommend? I could start saving my pennies on another Ring recording (like a more modern one or an...
  17. Opera
    I mentioned in another recent thread here that I recently showed up (with some skepticism) for Das Rheingold at the Met last week, my first Wagner, and was surprised at how much I loved it. Even though I had prepared by reading the libretto, watching videos and listening to recordings, it wasn't...
  18. Classifieds
    Hello, I've remastered Leonie Rysanek and Sigurd Bjorling's 1952 Flying Dutchman/ Der Fliegende Hollander Highlights LP with Wilhelm Schuchter conducting the Women's Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and the Philharmonia Orchestra. These recordings are out-of-copyright in the EU...
  19. Opera
    ;) Unfortunately, this is not my review post about the Pappano and Thielemann DVD Parsifals or my last 5 Ring reviews I've been doing for a month and a half. With deadline at the end of December or mid January, don't know, I have to make a 2d graphic design with a sencence and typographies of...
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