Wagner: Parsifal / Barenboim
Label: WARNER CLASSICS Catalog: 825646426331 Format: CD José van Dam (Amfortas), Matthias Holle (Gurnemanz), Gunter von Kannen (Klingsor), John Tomlinson (Titurel), Siegfried Jerusalem (Parsifal) & Waltraud Meier (Kundry) Chor der Deutschen Staatsoper Berlin & Berliner Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim“Barenboim is always most impressively heard in works of the grandest, most soul-searching kind – and he meets splendidly this most formidable challenge of all,” wrote Gramophone when this Parsifal, recorded in the famous Jesus-Christus Kirche with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, was released in 1991. Siegfried Jerusalem is golden-toned in the title role, Waltraud Meier proves why she was the defining Kundry of her era and, as Amfortas, José van Dam suffers with the utmost nobility. Price: $35.98 |