Wagner: Orchestral Highlights [Incls 'Ride of the Valkyries']

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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Orchestral Highlights [Incls 'Ride of the Valkyries']
Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer

[ Warner Classics Original Jacket Reissues / 2 CD ]

Release Date: Friday 21 August 2015

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Several of the recordings on this disc date from 1960, when Otto Klemperer celebrated his 75th birthday and Wieland Wagner, the composer's grandson, salutated the conductor as "a unique artistic phenomenon". Klempere's mastery of Wagner's music was rooted in the early years of his career: by the age of 30 he had conducted performances of Lohengrin, Der fliegende Hollander, Tannhauser, Der Ring des Nibelungen, Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Parsifal and Tristan und Isolde.

"There is not one performance on this set that is less than eloquent. It is plain from these recordings that Klemperer is a great Wagner conductor, probably the greatest in the world." Gramophone Magazine

Tracks:

CD 1
1 Rienzi Overture
2 Tannhäuser Overture
3 Tannhäuser Prelude (Act III)
4 Lohengrin Prelude (Act I)
5 Lohengrin Prelude (Act III)
6 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Prelude
7 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Dance of the Apprentices & Entry of the Masters (Act III)
8 Parsifal Prelude (Act I)

CD 2
1 Der fliegende Holländer Overture
2 Das Rheingold Entry of the Gods into Valhalla (Scene 4)
3 Die Walküre Ride of the Valkyries (Act III)
4 Siegfried Idyll
5 Siegfried Forest Murmurs (Act II)
6 Götterdämmerung Siegfried's Rhine Journey
7 Götterdämmerung Siegfried's Funeral March (Act III)
8 Tristan und Isolde Prelude and Liebestod