Wagner: Parsifal

Beirer, Mödl, Hines, Wächter, Greindl; Knappertsbusch

Bayreuth, 1959

$9.48

Description:

Martha Mödl is mesmerizing as Kundry, a role that became one of her most celebrated portrayals. She captures the character’s wild volatility and tormented vulnerability with a vocal intensity and psychological depth that few have matched. Her interpretation moves fluidly between savagery and sorrow, embodying Kundry’s inner conflict with a raw, human immediacy that defined her postwar Wagnerian roles.

Jerome Hines brings a sense of poise and quiet majesty to Gurnemanz, while Eberhard Wächter delivers one of the most compelling Amfortas interpretations of the 20th century, full of pain and suppressed anguish. Under the baton of Hans Knappertsbusch, the performance achieves a kind of suspended time—the pacing, weight, and grandeur that mark his most revered readings of Parsifal.

The sound is excellent.

In Mono

OD 11459-4