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Parsifal on Record: A Discography of Complete Recordings, Selections, and Excerpts of Wagner's Music Drama

Parsifal on Record: A Discography of Complete Recordings, Selections, and Excerpts of Wagner's Music Drama

Brown, Jonathan
Brown, Jonathan

Hardcover

Series: Discographies: Association for Recorded Sound Collections Di

General ReferenceGeneral SociologyMusic Theory

ISBN10: 0313285411
ISBN13: 9780313285417
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: Aug 21 1992
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.76
Language: English

The first comprehensive discography on one of Wagner's music dramas, this volume lists all complete performance recordings, all major selections recorded, and hundreds of individually-recorded excerpts, both vocal, and instrumental, from the earliest acoustic recordings to recent laser discs. Many excerpts have never appeared in discographies or other works on Wagner, and pirate recordings have been identified. Precise information is given as to date and place of recording and record numbers as well as performers, choruses, orchestras, and conductors. Musical incipits introduce each excerpt. The index provides access to more than 230 singers of the principal roles and over 130 conductors. A lengthy introduction provides a lively and provocative commentary on the recordings.

Written in Australia where Parsifal has never been fully staged, the discography was researched in major libraries and archives of Europe and the United States as well as old record shops in New York, London, Paris, and Sydney. The result is an important resource for the discographer and record collector, the student of opera and vocal art, and all lovers of Wagner in performance.

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