The Warner Classics Edition - Complete Opera Recordings (CD31)
Wolfgang Sawallisch- CD1 MOZART - DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE
- CD2 MOZART - DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE
- CD3 WEBER - ABU HASSAN
- CD4 SCHUBERT - DIE ZWILLINGSBRUDER
- CD5 WAGNER - DAS RHEINGOLD
- CD6 WAGNER - DAS RHEINGOLD
- CD7 WAGNER - DIE WALKÜRE
- CD8 WAGNER - DIE WALKÜRE
- CD9 WAGNER - DIE WALKÜRE
- CD10 WAGNER - SIEGFRIED
- CD11 WAGNER - SIEGFRIED
- CD12 WAGNER - SIEGFRIED
- CD13 WAGNER - GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG
- CD14 WAGNER - GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG
- CD15 WAGNER - GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG
- CD16 WAGNER - GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG
- CD17 WAGNER - DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG
- CD18 WAGNER - DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG
- CD19 WAGNER - DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG
- CD20 WAGNER - DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG
- CD21 R. STRAUSS - CAPRICCIO
- CD22 R. STRAUSS - CAPRICCIO
- CD23 R. STRAUSS - INTERMEZZO
- CD24 R. STRAUSS - INTERMEZZO
- CD25 R. STRAUSS - DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN
- CD26 R. STRAUSS - DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN
- CD27 R. STRAUSS - DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN
- CD28 R. STRAUSS - ELEKTRA
- CD29 R. STRAUSS - ELEKTRA
- CD30 ORFF - DIE KLUGE
- CD31 ORFF - DER MOND
This 31CD-box brings together all the operatic recordings that the German conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch (1923-2013) made in the years from 1956 to 1993 for EMI Classics and Electrola (now Warner Classics). Aged 11, Wolfgang Sawallisch (1923-2013) heard a performance of Humperdinck's fairytale opera Hänsel und Gretel in his native Munich and, there and then, decided that he wanted to be the man in the orchestra pit who waved his arms and made things happen. It took him a while - war service as a radio operator and a spell as a prisoner of war delayed the inevitable - but by his late 20s he was conducting opera at Augsburg (starting with Hänsel und Gretel) and he had barely turned 30 when at Aachen he became the youngest Generalmusikdirektor in Germany. Opera recordings followed and his 1957 version of Richard Strauss's Capriccio is still regarded as the benchmark. Also in this box, along with more Strauss, perhaps the finest achievements of Sawallisch's other operatic hero, Wagner.