Great Performance and an excellent Bayreuth festival! Martha Mödl was a unique Kundry and still in best voice. Josef Greindl was one of the favourites of the Wagner-brothers and a real actor-singer!
Greindl cannot match Ludwig Weber or Hans Hotter as Gurnemanz ( he is too earthly ) but Windgassen and Mödl are in their prime, Hotter is an overwhelming Amfortas and Knappertschbusch is and always will be THE Guardian.
Yes, very high, but in no way excessive or uncommon those days in central Europe. Bayreuth had 447 from 1961 until 1974. Vienna and Berlin 448 until about 1980, etc
@@hcleskov-fischer6033 I was not aware, I thought the 444 the BPO used at some point was the highest. There are ways to determine the exact pitch of a broadcast, right? So the 446 is definitive?
@hanslick3375 yes, there are two ways to determine pitch of historic recordings. I've often explained them here. While pitch tends to be much lower than it was During the second half of the twentieth century, 444 is still very common nowadays. Vienna and Bayreuth come to mind, but there will be many more. Most modern orchestra though pitch to 442 and 443.
Great Performance and an excellent Bayreuth festival!
Martha Mödl was a unique Kundry and still in best voice. Josef Greindl was one of the favourites of the Wagner-brothers and a real actor-singer!
This one has the best duet between Windgassen and Mödl, and Hotter is a fabulous Amfortas.
Thank you for posting this!
Prelude: 0:02
Act 1, s.1: 13:26
Act 1, s.2: 1:16:30
Act 2, s.1: 1:55:34
Act 2, s.2: 2:12:44
Act 3, s.1: 3:06:26
Act 3, s.2: 4:06:46
Vielen Dank !
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Greindl cannot match Ludwig Weber or Hans Hotter as Gurnemanz ( he is too earthly ) but Windgassen and Mödl are in their prime, Hotter is an overwhelming Amfortas and Knappertschbusch is and always will be THE Guardian.
Same date as the Lohengrin? 5 August 1954?
Ah, Lohengrin was 4 August....
Thank you for all your uploads!
So Windgassen sang two days in a row... @@hcleskov-fischer6033
446(!!) Hz is the correct pitch?! Are you sure? That's insanely high, seems almost impossible for the singers ...
Yes, very high, but in no way excessive or uncommon those days in central Europe. Bayreuth had 447 from 1961 until 1974. Vienna and Berlin 448 until about 1980, etc
@@hcleskov-fischer6033 I was not aware, I thought the 444 the BPO used at some point was the highest. There are ways to determine the exact pitch of a broadcast, right? So the 446 is definitive?
@hanslick3375 yes, there are two ways to determine pitch of historic recordings.
I've often explained them here. While pitch tends to be much lower than it was During the second half of the twentieth century, 444 is still very common nowadays. Vienna and Bayreuth come to mind, but there will be many more. Most modern orchestra though pitch to 442 and 443.