Title: Complete Opera Recordings 31CD / the Warner Classics Edition Artist: Wolfgang Sawallisch Label: Warner Classics Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 5054197949463 Genre: Classical, Opera/Operetta Release Date: 2024-11-01 Number of Discs: 31 Additional Details: BOXED SET
This 31CD-box brings together all the operatic recordings that the German conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch (1923-2013) made in the years from 1956 to 1993 for EMI Classics and Electrola (now Warner Classics). Aged 11, Wolfgang Sawallisch (1923-2013) heard a performance of Humperdinck's fairytale opera Hänsel und Gretel in his native Munich and, there and then, decided that he wanted to be the man in the orchestra pit who waved his arms and made things happen. It took him a while - war service as a radio operator and a spell as a prisoner of war delayed the inevitable - but by his late 20s he was conducting opera at Augsburg (starting with Hänsel und Gretel) and he had barely turned 30 when at Aachen he became the youngest Generalmusikdirektor in Germany. Opera recordings followed and his 1957 version of Richard Strauss's Capriccio is still regarded as the benchmark. Also in this box, along with more Strauss, perhaps the finest achievements of Sawallisch's other operatic hero, Wagner.
Tracks: 1.1 Contains the Complete Operas 1.2 CD 1-2 Mozart: Die Zauberflöte 1.3 CD 3 Weber: Abu Hassan 1.4 CD 4 Schubert: Die Zwillingsbruder 1.5 CD 5-6 Wagner: Das Rheingold 1.6 CD 7-9 Wagner: Die Walküre 1.7 CD 10-12 Wagner: Siegfried 1.8 CD 13-16 Wagner: Götterdämmerung 1.9 CD 17-20 Wagner: Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg 1.10 CD 21-22 R. Strauss: Capriccio 1.11 CD 23-24 R. Strauss: Intermezzo 1.12 CD25-27 R. Strauss: Die Frau Ohne Schatten 1.13 CD 28-29 R. Strauss: Elektra 1.14 CD 30 Orff: Die Kluge 1.15 CD 31 Orff: Der Mond
