Wagner - Parsifal / Kollo, Frick, Fischer-Dieskau, Ludwig, Kélémen, Hotter, Wiener Phil., Solti
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Polygram Records
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Music CD 1
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Act 1: Vorspiel
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Act 1: "He! Ho! Waldhüter ihr"
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Act 1: "Seht dort, die wilde Reiterin!"
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Act 1: "Recht so! - Habt Dank!"
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Act 1: "He, du da! Was liegst du dort wie ein wildes Tier?"
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Act 1: "Das ist ein andres"
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Act 1: "Titurel, der fromme Held, der kannt'ihn wohl"
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Act 1: "Vor allem nun: der Speer kehr'uns zurück!"
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Act 1: "Weh! Weh!"
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Act 1: "Du konntest morden, hier, im heil'gen Walde"
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Act 1: "Wo bist du her?"
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Act 1: "Den Vaterlosen gebar die Mutter"
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Act 1: "So recht! So nach des Grales Gnade"
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Act 1: "Vom Bade kehrt der König heim"
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Act 1: "Nun achte wohl, und laß mich seh'n"
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Act 1: "Mein Sohn Amfortas, bist du am Amt?"
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Act 1: "Nein! Laßt ihn unenthüllt"
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Act 1: "Nehmet hin meinen Leib"
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Act 1: "Was stehst du noch da?"
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Act 2: Vorspiel
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Act 2: "Die Zeit ist da"
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Act 2: "Erwachst du? Ha!"
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Act 2: "Jetzt schon erklimmt er die Burg"
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Act 2: "Hier war das Tosen!"
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Act 2: "Ihr schönen Kinder"
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Act 2: "Komm, komm! Holder Knabe!"
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Act 2: "Parsifal! - Weile"
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Act 2: "Ich sah das Kind an seiner Mutter Brust"
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Act 2: "Wehe! Wehe! was tat ich?"
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Act 2: "Amfortas! - Die Wunde!"
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Act 2: "Grausamer! Fühlst du im Herzen"
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Act 2: "Auf Ewigkeit wärst du verdammt"
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Act 2: "Vergeh, unseliges Weib!"
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Act 2: "Halt da! Dich bann'ich mit der rechten Wehr!"
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Act 3: Vorspiel
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Act 3: "Von dorther kam das Stöhnen"
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Act 3: "Du tolles Weib! Hast du kein Wort für mich?"
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Act 3: "In düstrem Waffenschmucke?"
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Act 3: "Heil mir, daß ich dich wiederfinde!"
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Act 3: "O Gnade! Höchstes Heil!"
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Act 3: "Nicht so! - Die heil'ge Quelle selbst"
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Act 3: "Du wuschest mir die Füße"
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Act 3: "Wie dünkt mich doch die Aue heut so schön"
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Act 3: "Mittag - Die Stund'ist da"
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Act 3: "Geleiten wir im bergenden Schrein"
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Act 3: "Ja, Wehe! Wehe! Weh' über mich!"
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Act 3: "Nur eine Waffe taugt"
Music reviews of Wagner - Parsifal / Kollo, Frick, Fischer-Dieskau, Ludwig, Kélémen, Hotter, Wiener Phil., Solti
Music Review: PROBABLY THE BEST SUNG PARSIFAL
Rating: 4 Stars
This is the recording that the hero of Simon Gray's play 'Otherwise Engaged' keeps trying to listen to, but keeps getting interrupted before he can get beyond a few bars.
What he would have heard if he'd got to the end would have been perhaps the best sung of all Parsifals. The cast is a starry one (certainly for its time) and they all acquit themselves with more than usual credit.
Top of the list belongs to Gottlob Frick singing this Gurnemanz as his swansong to the recording studio. If you think of him only as the pitch black villains of Walkure and Gotterdammerung or the authoritarian rulers of Lohengrin and Tannhauser, think again. This is a warmly wise mature Knight of the Grail whose every word and musical phrase is deeply considered and sung with meaning and understanding. No garrulous old bore, this. Fischer-Dieskau, too, brings all his experience of lieder singing to bear on the text and the music. This Amfortas is no mere cypher, but an honourable, flawed and deeply anguished man. Christa Ludwig presents all the sharply contrasted facets of this profoundly complex character to her portrayal of Kundry. Maybe she lacks just the last volt of electricity generated by Martha Modl in Act 2. The one slightly weak link in this estimable array is Rene Kollo, a rather bland Parsifal with insufficient distinction between the 'reine Tor' who erupts on the scene in Act 1 and the wiser, older, world-weary black knight who trudges into the final Act. A glance down the cast list reveals strength in depth right down to a list of Flowermaidens that includes Kiri te Kanawa and Lucia Popp.
As for the conducting, Solti is Solti - exciting, precise, a little hard-driven at times and inclined to be episodic. As always, he draws ravishing sounds from the Vienna Philharmonic and his familiar Decca engineers do him proud by the standards of the day.
This is certainly a candidate for a top recommendation Parsifal with its great singing cast and its (relatively) modern sound. Personally, though, I'd go back to the 1951 Knappertsbusch and settle for the more dated sound.
Description of Wagner - Parsifal / Kollo, Frick, Fischer-Dieskau, Ludwig, Kélémen, Hotter, Wiener Phil., Solti
Wagner coined a blockbuster word to describe Parsifal's genre--Bühnenweihfestspiel, or a "festival play to consecrate the stage." In this, his last work, Wagner returns to the Christian mythology that occupied his imagination earlier in Tannhäuser and Lohengrin. But Parsifal is fundamentally different from the earlier more simplistic, heroic works. Parsifal tries to put the church into the theater, instead of simply giving church themes a theatrical dressing. Parsifal is probably the least accessible Wagnerian opus--the dreamy 19th-century view of Christian mysticism being especially hard for a 20th-century intellect to come to terms with. But those who invest in the effort of understanding the score will be rewarded with a sense of the mystic communion. Though Kollo is sometimes overwrought as the Grail Knight, Fischer-Dieskau is an extremely pitiable and sympathetic Amfortas, and a generally excellent cast carries the day with Frick as Gurnemanz being the highlight. Solti conducts the Wiener Philaharmoniker (Vienna Philharmonic) with mystic solemnity. --Christian C. RixGeneral CDs
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