Composer: Richard Wagner
Performer: Martha Mödl, Hans Hotter, Maria Von Ilosvay, Wolfgang Windgassen, Gustav Neidlinger, Ramón Vinay
Orchestra: Bayreuth Festival Orchestra
Conductor: Joseph Keilberth
Number of Discs: 2
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Profil
Release: 2022
Size: 652 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
CD 01
Wagner: Siegfried, WWV 86C
01. Act III Vorspiel
02. Wache, Wala! Wala! Erwach!
03. Stark, ruft das Lied
04. Die Walküre meinst du
05. Die Unweisen ruf’ ich ins Ohr
06. Mein Vöglein schwebte mir fort!
07. Kenntest du mich, kühner Sproß
08. Orchesterzwischenspiel
09. Selige Öde auf sonniger Höh
10. Das ist kein Mann!
11. Heil dir, Sonne! Heil dir, Licht!
12. O Siegfried! Siegfried! Seliger Held
13. Dort seh! Ich Grane, mein selig Roß
14. Ewig war ich, ewig bin ich
15. Dich lieb’ ich, o liebtest mich du
16. Ha! Wie des Blutes Ströme sich zünden
CD 02
Parsifal, WWV 111
01. Act II Vorspiel
02. Die Zeit ist da
03. Ach! Ach! Tiefe Nacht
04. Furchtbare Not
05. Ho! Ihr Wächter! Ho! Ritter!
06. Hier war das Tosen!
07. Komm, komm, holder Knabe!
08. Parsifal! – Weile!
09. Dies alles – Hab ich nun geträumt?
10. Ich sah das Kind an seiner Mutter Brust
11. Wehe! Wehe! Was tat ich? Wo war ich?
12. Amfortas! Die Wunde! – Die Wunde!
13. Gelobter Held! Entflieh dem Wahn!
14. Grausamer! Fühlst du im Herzen
15. Auf Ewigkeit wärst du verdammt mit mir
16. Vergeh unseliges Weib!
The recordings here by Martha Mödl from 1955 document not only her impeccable rendering of the German, but also her singular singing status. She started out as a mezzo-soprano, but in 1949, with her first Kundry, she switched to the vocal range midway between mezzo and dramatic soprano, and in March 1952 she sang her first Brünnhilde. She was there from the very start in Neubayreuth: From 1951 to 1955, Mödl sang Kundry in all of the Parsifal performances and only began alternating with Astrid Varnay from 1956. She was also cast in the Ring from 1951, first as Gutrune and the Third Norn, and from 1953 also as Brünnhilde and in 1954 as Sieglinde as well. There, too, she alternated with Varnay, who had been performing almost without pause as Brünnhilde since 1951. Mödl sang Isolde in 1952 and 1953. To the director Wieland Wagner she was a “high dramatic soprano free of pathos”. He valued the way her “voice, personality and performance formed an absolutely inseparable whole”. Her stage presence can no longer be experienced through the recordings, but the vocal penetration of the roles can be.