[ Naxos / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 18 February 2008
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Richard Wagner inspired in his contemporaries extremes of reaction. For some his music seemed as misguided and repulsive as his anti-Semitism, while others were overwhelmed by the size of his ambition and achievement, to which everything had to be sacrificed. Wagner's career was in many ways thoroughly discreditable. He betrayed friends and patrons, accumulated debts with abandon, and seemed, in pursuit of his aims, an unprincipled opportunist. Nevertheless, whatever his defects of character, he exercised a hypnotic influence over his immediate followers, while his creation of a new form of music-drama, in which the arts were combined, and the magnitude of his conception continue to fascinate.
The Mastersingers of Nuremburg Overture
Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde
Tannhauser Overture
Lohingrin Prelude
The Flying Dutchman Overture
Entry of the Gods into Valhalla from The Rhine Gold
Ride of the Valkyries
Siegfried's Death and Funeral March from Twilight of the Gods