Great Operatic Arias - Christine Brewer 2
Great Operatic Arias - Christine Brewer
The Flying Dutchman
The Goodall Ring Cycle
Peter Moores

'I simply thought that Goodall's Ring was something unique and astonishing, and I wanted to share it with people – I didn't want it to disappear.'
Evening Standard

‘..the glorious lived-in quality of his (Tomlinson’s) bass conveys the cursed seafarer’s anguish more persuasively than most modern interpreters...'
Recorded at the London Coliseum between 1973 & 1977

The Sunday Times
'... this is Goodall's Ring. I doubt whether we will ever hear it's like again. Thrilling.'
The Valkyrie
Peter Moores

'... after I'd heard Reginald Goodall's Valkyrie - I just felt it had to be recorded.'
The Sunday Telegraph

'... a Rhinegold of rare quality.'
The Rhinegold
Siegfried
BBC Music Magazine
'...a genuinely unique record of a real artistic achievement.'

New York Times
'The revelation comes from the clear delivery of Mr. Porter's translation.'
Twilight of the Gods
Fanfare

'Hunter can stand alongside Nilsson as the model of Wagner singing... a truly important document of one of the 20th century's greatest Wagner conductors.'
The Goodall Ring Sampler
The Sunday Telegraph

'...one is transfixed by the quality of the singing, the orchestral playing and by the grandeur and insight of Sir Reginald's conducting.'
Goodall's Ring

Gramophone

'Goodall's interpretation has an unerring sense of lyrical and dramatic concentration, every paragraph, phrase and bar carefully considered and executed with loving care by singers and players alike.'

The Guardian

'... it is Goodall's conducting that is truly spellbinding: never hurried, never contrived, always dramatically intense; the work of a supreme Wagner interpreter.'
Opera
'Here are the long, shadowy vowels and the deceptively simple inflections of Wolfram's O Star of Eve.

Tannhäuser
Wolfram's Arias
Great Operatic Arias - Sir Thomas Allen
The Rhinegold
Wotan's Monologue
The Flying Dutchman
Dutchman's Monologue & Daland's Aria
The Mastersingers
Pogner's Monologue
Hans Sachs's Flieder & Wahn Monologues
Great Operatic Arias - John Tomlinson 2
The Flying Dutchman

The Sunday Telegraph

‘In the title role is the great bass-baritone John Tomlinson... His first aria superbly expounds the Dutchman’s haunted and accursed character. The contrast – patrician and plebeian – between him and Eric Halfvarson’s earthy Daland... is striking.
Opera Now
'Brewer's ample, intense singing is heard at its best in the Wagner... where she weaves an ecstatic cantilena.'

Tannhäuser
Elizabeth's Greeting
'Great hall of song'
31 July 2010
Mastersingers
The Times

‘Goodall confirmed himself as one of the pre-eminent modern Wagnerians when he conducted this concertin 1968 at Sadler's Wells Opera to rapturous critical acclaim.'
Tannhäuser
Elisabeth's prayer
'Almighty Virgin'

Lohengrin
Elsa's dream
'When all my hopes departed'