MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen - Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, Siegfried, Gotterdammerung (recorded 1992) BLU-RAY

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RICHARD WAGNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen - Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, Siegfried, Gotterdammerung (recorded 1992) BLU-RAY
John Tomlinson, Siegfried Jerusalem, Anne Evans, Harry Kupfer, Poul Elming, Nadine Secunde / Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele / Daniel Barenboim

[ Warner Music Vision / Unitel Blu-ray / 4 Blu-ray Disc ]

Release Date: Wednesday 20 May 2015

This item is only available to us via Special Import.

Rated: G - Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993Suitable for General Audiences

This legendary Bayreuth Festival production of Wagner's 'Der Ring des Nibelungen', directed by Harry Kupfer, with designs by Hans Schavernoch, and conducted by Daniel Barenboim, is considered perhaps the finest video recording of these four operas ever made. For their innovative modernist staging, Kupfer and his team turned away from the work's time of origin and located The Ring at a "road of history", a meeting-place of past, present and future, which sets the scene for the story's struggles of power and love. Barenboim's authoritative yet highly responsive reading of the immense score and the extraordinary performances of the cast help to make this a truly memorable Ring.

Subtitles: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian (operas) - French, German, Spanish, Italian (bonus feature)

The Kupfer/Barenboim Ring was performed over a five-year period and recorded at the conclusion when the "Bayreuth Workshop" had raised "the quality of the performance to an almost unsurpassable level" (Der Tagesspiegel)

"If a cycle is going as well as the Harry Kupfer/Daniel Barenboim Ring was, the super-test of Götterdämmerung brings out the best in everyone… Barenboim manipulates his orchestra with Furtwänglerian virtuosity, huge rits, pauses and all, tailor-made to the stage drama. This is the strongest of Hohlfeld's four Ring filmings. It captures the Fritz Lang-like atmosphere of terror that Kupfer gets from this work, and is at the right angles for the moving depiction of Siegfried's death and funeral march…" Gramophone Magazine