Parsifal on Record: A Discography of Complete Recordings, Selections, and Excerpts of Wagner’s Music Drama

This discography on one of Wagner’s music dramas lists all complete performance recordings, all major selections recorded, and hundreds of individually-recorded excerpts, both vocal, and instrumental, from the earliest acoustic recordings to recent laser discs. Many excerpts have never appeared in discographies or other works on Wagner and pirate recordings have been identified. Precise information is given as to date and place of recording and record numbers as well as performers, choruses, orchestras and conductors. Musical incipits introduce each excerpt. The index provides access to more than 230 singers of the principal roles and over 130 conductors. The introduction provides a commentary on the recordings. Written in Australia, where Parsifal has never been fully staged, the discography was researched in major libraries and archives of Europe and the United States as well as old record shops in New York, London, Paris and Sydney. The result is an important resource for the discographer and record collector, the student of opera and vocal art and all lovers of Wagner in performance.