Currently listening to this in the car. I am particularly enjoying Jess Thomas' Siegfried - what a gorgeous voice, lovely timbre. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau brings a real lieder singer's sensibility to Wotan, particularly in Wotan's Farewell scene which made me cry a bit. Gundula Janowitz is a charming girlish Sieglinde.
Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Wotan), Josephine Veasey (Fricka), Gerhard Stolze (Loge), Erwin Wohlfahrt (Mime), Zoltán Kéléman (Alberich), Simone Mangelsdorff (Freia), Donald Grobe (Froh), Robert Kerns (Donner), Oralia Domínguez (Erda), Martti Talvela (Fasolt), Karl Ridderbusch (Fafner), Liselotte Rebmann (Woglinde), Edda Moser (Wellgunde), Anna Reynolds (Floßhilde), Jon Vickers (Siegmund), Gundula Janowitz (Sieglinde), Martti Talvela (Hunding), Régine Crespin (Brünhilde), Thomas Stewart (Wotan), Liselotte Rebmann (Gerhilde), Carlotta Ordassy (Ortlinde), Ingrid Steger (Waltraute), Lilo Brockhaus (Schwertleite), Danica Mastilovic (Helmwige), Barbro Ericson (Siegrune), Cvetka Ahlin (Grimgerde), Helga Jenckel (Roßweiße), Jess Thomas (Siegfried), Gerhard Stolze (Mime), Thomas Stewart (Wanderer), Helga Dernesch (Brünhilde), Catherine Gayer (Waldvogel), Helga Dernesch (Brünnhilde), Helge Brilioth (Siegfried), Karl Ridderbusch (Hagen), Thomas Stewart (Gunther), Gundula Janowitz (Gutrune), Christa Ludwig (Waltraute), Lili Chookasian (First Norn), Christa Ludwig (Second Norn), Catarina Ligenzda (Third Norn)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
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