Wagner's Vision [CD de audio] Varios and Richard Wagner

This 50-CD set is released to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Richard Wagner's birth and is a remarkable sound document of the history of the Bayreuth Festival during the first half of the 20th century. The collection includes music from all the operas authorized by Wagner for performance in Bayreuth. To complement the edition, individual scenes and titles from Cosima, Siegfried and Winifred Wagner's decades of festival direction are included. They date back to the festival's summer of 1904 and convey impressions of important and famous performances up to 1943. New Bayreuth recordings by Wagner's grandsons Wieland and Wolfgang lead into the most recent era of the festival. All performances on the 50 CDs are original Bayreuth recordings and are conducted by Siegfried Wagner, Richard Strauss, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Victor de Sabata, Karl Muck, Herbert von Karajan, Clemens Krauss, Joseph Keilberth, Hans Knappertsbusch, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Lorin Maazel and André Cluytens, a list of some of the best directors of the 20th century. Casts include: Hans Hotter, Ira Malaniuk, Gustav Neidlinger, Jon Vickers, Leonie Rysanek, Astrid Varnay, Josef Greindl, Rita Gorr, Wolfgang Windgassen, Martha Mödl, Rita Streich, Birgit Nilsson, Ramón Vinay, Sándor Kónya, George London , Paul Schöffler, Hilde Scheppan, Otto Edelmann, Hans Hopf, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gré Brouwenstijn, Arnold van Mill, Weber and many others. Track listing: 1. Track listing to follow.