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Wagner: Lohengrin [Enhanced] [Box set]

~ Richard Wagner (Composer), Wolfgang Sawallisch (Conductor), Bayreuth Festival Orchestra (Orchestra), Anja Silja (Vocals), Astrid Varnay (Vocals), et al.

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Orchestra: Bayreuth Festival Orchestra
Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch
Composer: Richard Wagner
Audio CD (21 Oct 2002)
SPARS Code: ADD
Number of Discs: 3
Format: Enhanced, Box set
Label: Compact Opera
ASIN: B00006LENQ
Other Editions: MP3 Download

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 495,833 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good to hear again, 28 Sep 2003

By	Gert Olsson (Sweden) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Thanks to the digital revolution a number of recordings from the 60:s have been reissued, often in a washed form. In the Decca series Compact Opera we have among others this very good Lohengrin. Anja Silja is not Birgit Nilsson, but very good in her part. Jess Thomas was always reliable up to the mid 60:s.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A thrilling account in classic Bayreuth style, 10 Jul 2009

By	Ralph Moore (Bishop's Stortford, UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I first heard this live performance on LP thirty-five years ago and hadn't listened to it again in the interval since, so returning to it has been an interesting and nostalgic experience. Now as then, I am struck by the vehemence with which Varnay and Vinay portray the villainous couple who attempt to stitch up our heroes; for me, the stand-out performance remains Varnay's extraordinarily intense Ortrud. Her sneering, blasphemous guffaw of "Ha-ha!" is a lesson in acting in itself and her huge voice relishes the famous curse passage. Vinay's Telramund is febrile, hysterical and craven; a mass of nervous energy and bullying self-doubt. Jess Thomas, given the demands of a live performance, is not quite as sweet and poised as he is in the Kempe studio recording, but he is still very good indeed, and Silja turns in a major performance as Elsa: tender, pure and touching, despite the occasional hint of shrillness - no doubt it helped that the singer herself was only 21 at the time. Franz Crass's King Henry is a joy of firm tone and Tom Krause's Herald is a major improvement over Kempe's nasal veteran, Otto Wiener. I have given four rather five stars because of the continuous hacking from the audience, once again belying the reputation of the Bayreuth crowd for rapt attention.

This is by no means the only "Lohengrin" worth buying; the opera has been fortunate on disc and I prefer the two superb studio recordings from Kempe and Kubelik (see my review) for repeated listening; they too have spine-chilling pairs of baddies and the Elsa of both Gr�mmer and Janowitz is a dream in both sets.

This is also currently available as part of the 33 disc bargain Decca live Bayreuth set. Apart from a tepid "Meistersinger" (with singing horribly compromised by the inadequate and soon-to-disappear Jean Cox) and a "Parsifal" whose etiolated tempi divide opinions, this is a very attractive box which includes the whole of the famous B�hm "Ring". For a single purchase, I would still recommend the Kempe or Kubelik studio recordings above this one, but if you have it as part of the bargain box, you need have few regrets.

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