Wagner Gotter-Dammerung

In 2015, Sony Classical reissued Die Walküre and Siegfried from the first digital recording of the Ring. It has stood the test of time remarkably well, observed ClassicsToday.com when the complete set, originally released in 1983, was last reissued. The Staatskapelle Dresden plays spotlessly for Marek Janowski An excellent Ring experience. Now the remaining two music dramas from this acclaimed cycle are again available separately. Gramophone in 1997 praised the marvellously clean, spacious digital recording and Janowskis fast, lyrical, wholly cogent reading [which] has the Dresden Staatskapelle playing with the utmost beauty from start to finish try the start of Act 3 of Götterdämmerung and with lean power when thats called for Voices and players are in an ideal relationship, which is not say that such [orchestral] passages as the Rhine Journey and Funeral March want anything in visceral excitement Matti Salminen is a commanding, often subtle Hagen The smaller parts, especially Rhinemaidens led by Lucia Popp, are well taken