Showing posts with label Talvela Martti. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Talvela Martti. Show all posts

Wednesday, 26 September 2012

Verdi: Don Carlo - Solti \ La Forza del destino - Muti \ Un Ballo in maschera - Karajan

Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlo
Georg Solti, Carlo Bergonzi, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Grace Bumbry, Jeannette Sinclair, Kenneth MacDonald, Martti Talvela, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Renata Tebaldi, Royal Opera House Chorus and Orchestra, Covent Garden
Recording date: 1965

Giuseppe Verdi: La Forza del destino
Placido Domingo, Mirella Freni, Riccardo Muti, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala
Recording date: 1986

Giuseppe Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera
Herbert von Karajan, Wiener Philharmoniker, Placido Domingo, Josephine Barstow Recording date: 1989

Monday, 13 September 2010

Wagner: Parsifal - George London, Martti Talvela, Hans Hotter, Jess Thomas, Hans Knappertsbusch

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Wagner: Parsifal - George London, Martti Talvela, Hans Hotter, Jess Thomas, Hans Knappertsbusch, Chor und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele

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Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Parsifal
A sacred festival stage-play in three acts
Amfortas : George London
Titurel : Martti Talvela
Gurnemanz : Hans Hotter
Parsifal : Jess Thomas
Klingsor : Gustav Neidlinger
Kundry : Irene Dalis
Knights of Grail : Niels Moller - Gerd Nienstedt
Squires : Sona Cervena - Ursula Boese - Gerhard Stolze - Georg Paskuda
Flowers Maidens I : Gundula Janowitz - Anja Silja - Else-Margerete Gardelli
Flowers Maidens II : Dorothea Siebert - Rita Bartos - Sona Cervena
Contralto Solo : Ursula Boese
The Brotherhood of the Knights of the Grail, Youths and Boys
Chorus Master : Wilhelm Pitz
Hans Knappertsbusch
Recored Live at the 1962 Bayreuth Festival