Die Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods), opera, WWV 86d
Originally presented in concert and recorded live by PentaTone, Marek Janowski's brilliant audiophile cycle of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen was released in 2013 as part of a complete series of the ten mature operas, issued to celebrate the composer's bicentennial. The four installments of the tetralogy -- Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung -- have been brought together in this oversize box set, which houses 13 hybrid multichannel SACDs and a large, square paperback book that provides ...
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Originally presented in concert and recorded live by PentaTone, Marek Janowski's brilliant audiophile cycle of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen was released in 2013 as part of a complete series of the ten mature operas, issued to celebrate the composer's bicentennial. The four installments of the tetralogy -- Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung -- have been brought together in this oversize box set, which houses 13 hybrid multichannel SACDs and a large, square paperback book that provides essential information about the project. Of course, the critically praised performances make this a collector's item, and the extraordinarily vivid recordings make this set especially valuable to Wagner fans. The strong cast features Tomasz Konieczny as Wotan, Petra Lang as Brünnhilde, Stephen Gould as Siegfried, Iris Vermillion as Fricka, Robert Dean Smith as Siegmund, and Jochen Schmeckenbecher as Alberich, among other rising Wagnerian singers who give this Ring its distinctive...
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