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The Wagner Journal

The Wagner Journal, November 2017, Volume 11, Number 3

The Wagner Journal, November 2017, Volume 11, Number 3

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Guest-edited by Tash Siddiqui

 

Features

Anna Stoll Knecht, Mahler’s Parsifal 

Barry Emslie: The Volk That Wagner Loved to Hate: A Reply to Derek Hughes

Wendy Ligon Smith, Mariano Fortuny and His Wagnerian Designs

 

Reviews (live performances)

Trials and Tribulations: Barry Millington hails this year’s Bayreuth offerings

Breaking Free: Matthew Rye reviews two instalments in ongoing Ring cycles that explore different aspects of freedom and entrapment

Time’s Arrow or: The Nature of the Offence, Michael Fuller is stimulated by Castellucci’s meditations on time and sin in his new Tannhäuser for Munich

The Dutchman Sighted Again in New York on Cue: Paula M. and Edward A. Bortnichak are thrilled by the marriage of the Met’s new music director and an evergreen revival

Shades of Grey: Michael Fuller has reservations about a reinterpretation of the Holländer as Erik’s dream

 

Reviews (CDs)

Eloquent Elders: Arnold Whittall muses on the history of Wagner recordings with Knappertsbusch’s Meistersinger and Elder’s Lohengrin

Two Tenors and Two Symphonies, Slightly Mottled: Niall Hoskin rounds up recent Wagner releases on CD

Taking an Early Lied: Malcolm Miller is not convinced by an attempt to resuscitate some of Wagner’s early thoughts on his songs, but is won over by a mixed collection of piano works

 

Reviews (DVDs)

Behind the Scenes at the Opera: Matthew Rye finds a documentary on the creation of the Mannheim Ring by iconoclastic artist/director Achim Freyer as frustrating as it is perceptive

  

Reviews (books)

The Body in the Library: Jeremy Coleman takes on the herculean task of reviewing the collected edition of Wagner’s musical works

A True Artist and a True Friend: Roger Allen welcomes the reissue of a meticulously researched biography of Hans Richter

 

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