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Matti Salminen
12+ albums
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Matti Salminen (born 7 July 1945, in Turku) is a Finnish operatic bass singer, who has sung at all of the most important opera houses of the world, including the Metropolitan and Bayreuth Festival. Salminen is distinguished by an imposing figure and height; an enormous, sonorous and dark voice; and an expressive face. According to one reviewer, in his prime Salminen was "... simply the largest bass voice in captivity. It is not just its roar in powering over Wagner's maximum orchestra, but the way he carves the sonority and forms the color." He performed as Fafner and Hagen in the PBS video broadcast Ring Cycle from the Metropolitan Opera, for the largest viewing-audience of the Ring in history. He sang in the premiere of Sallinen’s Kuningas Lear in 2000 (King Lear, title role), and Jukka Linkola's Robin Hood in 2011 (Sheriff). Salminen has a contract at the Zurich Opera, and he also frequently performs in his native Finland. Most of all he has been admired in such Wagner roles as Daland (Der fliegende Holländer), Gurnemanz and Titurel (Parsifal), King Marke (Tristan und Isolde), Fasolt and Fafner (Das Rheingold / Siegfried), Hunding (Die Walküre), and Hagen (Götterdämmerung). At the Bayreuth Festival he first appeared in 1976 as Titurel (Parsifal), and Hunding (Walküre) and Fasolt (Rheingold) in the Jahrhundertring (Centenary Ring) in 1976, celebrating the centenary of both the festival and the first performance of the complete cycle, conducted by Pierre Boulez and staged by
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Requiem in D Minor, K.626: Introitus: Requiem aeternam
5532Requiem in D Minor, K.626: Lacrimosa
5343Requiem in D Minor, K.626: Dies irae
4894Requiem in D Minor, K.626: Kyrie: Sequenz
4595Requiem in D Minor, K.626: Tuba mirum
4036Requiem in D Minor, K.626: Rex tremendae
3947Requiem in D Minor, K.626: Confutatis
3648Requiem in D Minor, K.626: Recordare
3479Requiem in D Minor, K.626: Offertorium: Domine Jesu
33310Requiem in D Minor, K.626: Hostias et precis
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Mozart: Requiem
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Lauluja onnesta ja kaipauksesta
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Wagner: Der Fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman)
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Finnish Tangos
Mozart / Verdi: Opera Arias For Bass
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My Christmas
On hetki
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20 suosikkia / Rantakoivun alla
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The 99 Most Essential Masterpieces of the Classical Era
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20 suosikkia - Rantakoivun alla
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Mozart at the Opera!
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Vocal Recital: Salminen, Matti - Merikanto, O. / Sibelius, J. / Madetoja, L. / Kilpinen, Y. / Turunen, M. / Luolajan-Mikkola, V. / Kuula, T.