DANIEL BARENBOIM

Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen

$139.99 DVD

THE HIGHLY CELEBRATED CYCLE AVAILABLE AS A COMPLETE 7 DVD EXPERIENCE.

“If a cycle is going as well as the Harry Kupfer/Daniel Barenboim Ring was, the super-test of Götterdämmerung brings out the best in everyone . . . Barenboim manipulates his orchestra with Furtwänglerian virtuosity, huge rits, pauses and all, tailor-made to the stage drama . . . This is the strongest of Hohlfeld’s four Ring filmings. It captures the Fritz Lang-like atmosphere of terror that Kupfer gets from this work, and is at the right angles for the moving depiction of Siegfried’s death and funeral march . . .”—Gramophone 2007

“All the cast work fiendishly hard . . . Tomlinson (and Kupfer) illustrate the glorious Prelude that Wagner called “Wotan’s last ride”, the lasers make a furious fire, and Evans is in streaming form as the awoken Brunnhilde. Aptly weighty, Furtwangler-ish conducting . . .”—Gramophone 2006

“From his singing actors director Harry Kupfer has secured performances of unremitting physical and emotional energy . . . John Tomlinson runs, dives, falls and embraces, living out every part of the tragedy of his Wälsung family. It’s an extraordinary tour de force, thrillingly sung off the text and the action.”—Gramophone 2005

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