Richard Wagner Essentials
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Wagner's radically forward-thinking music represented a violent upheaval that would set the conditions for impressionism, serialism, jazz and even popular music. His colossal one-off operas like Tristan und Isolde and Parsifal blasted open the Romantic paradigm, birthing a comprehensive approach to drama and a liberation of tonality that features endless melodies, behemoth orchestras and mercurial, spidery harmonies. The far-reaching Ring Cycle, a mythological tale of heroes and villains, showcases flowing, meditative lyricism and moments of grandeur (“Ride of the Valkyries”).
Lohengrin, Act I: Einsam In Truben Tagen (Elsa's Dream)
Charlotte Margiono, Limburg Symphony Orchestra Maastricht
"Summ und Brumm, du gutes Rädchen" - "Dann hält uns länger keine Pflicht" (Chor der Mädchen, Mary, Senta)
Wie Todesahnung. O Du Mein Holder Abendstern (Wolfram)
Act III: Scene 1: Treulich geführt ziehet dahin
"Welch Licht leuchtet dort?"
Vienna Philharmonic, Helen Watts, Grace Hoffman, Anita Valkki, Georg Solti
Introduktion - Gebet. "Allmächt'ger Vater" (Rienzi)
"Mild und leise wie er lächelt" (Isoldes Liebestod) (Isolde)
"Komm, Holder Knabe!"
Christian Thielemann, Bori Keszei, Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, Plácido Domingo, Antigone Papoulkas, Nadia Krasteva, Inna Los, Simina Ivan, Ildikó Raimondi
"O süsseste Wonne! Seligstes Weib!"
"War Wälse dein Vater, und bist du ein Wälsung"
"Siegmund, den Wälsung, siehst du, Weib!"
"Heil Dir, Sonne! Heil Dir, Licht!"
Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg
Welch Brausen erfüllt die Luft?
Staatskapelle Dresden, Czech National Choir Prague, Saxon State Opera Chorus, Dresden, Christian Thielemann, Dresdner Kammerchor, Central German Radio Chorus, Czech Philharmonic Choir of Brno, Dresden Philharmonic Choir, Dresden Symphony Chorus
Den Zeugen, Denk' es (Live)
Gösta Winbergh, Royal Opera Chorus, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Sir John Tomlinson, Bernard Haitink, Gwynne Howell
Verachtet mir die Meister nicht (Live)
Bernard Haitink, Royal Opera Chorus, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Sir John Tomlinson