Staatskapelle Berlin

Hans Pfitzner’s musical legend Palestrina was first performed during the height of the First World War, a period when sensitive minds such as Pfitzner’s felt uneasy about the cultural scene of bourgeois society. Even then, when the headlong

Simon Estes (Bas - Bariton) Eva-Maria Bundschuh (Sopraan) Heinz Reeh (Bas) Staatskapelle Berlin Heinz Fricke CD: Der fliegende Holländer 1. Die Frist ist um 11’07 Die Walküre 2. Laß ich’s verlauten (Wotan’s Narration, Act 2) 24’30 3. L

As with many of the works composed during the same period, Schubert's Lazarus -- essentially a sacred stage work rather than an oratorio -- remains unfinished, with Act 2's burial never completed and the music for Act 3's resurrection never

Spread over nine CDs, this release represents a treasure trove of works by Dvorák, dedicated to and featuring the best of his orchestral music. The composer stands as the most popular of the Czech nationalist movement, one who despite Germa

Though its popularity has sadly diminished over the years, up to about the middle of the last century Martha was one of the most frequently performed operas on the German stage -- largely owing to the great tenor Enrico Caruso's acclaimed p

One of the greatest and most revolutionary composers of the nineteenth century, Richard Wagner transformed the realm of musical drama. Years before his towering successes of the Ring Cycle, Tristan und Isolde and Die Meistersinger von Nürnb