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Notes
- ↑ Holloway, Robin (1982) in "Opera on Record", Harper and Row ISBN 0-06-090910-2
- ↑ Blyth, Alan (1992), "Opera on CD" Kyle Cathie Ltd, ISBN 1-85626-056-9
- ↑ Nice, David. "Wagner 200 Building a Library: Parsifal". CD Review. BBC Radio 3. Retrieved 26 December 2013.
- ↑ Parsifal, Deutsche Grammophon
- ↑ "Parsifal – The Search for the Grail". Presto Classical Limited. Archived from the original on 2 August 2016. Retrieved 13 July 2012.
Sources
- Brown, Jonathan (1992). Parsifal on Record : a discography of complete recordings, selections, and excerpts of Wagner's music drama (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press). ISBN 0313285411
- Recordings of Parsifal, wagnerdisco.net
