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”).
"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)
Der Meister Tön' und Weisen (David/Walther/Lehrbuben)
Bavarian State Orchestra, Ben Heppner, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Deon Van der Walt
Act III: Scene 1: Treulich geführt ziehet dahin
"Welch Licht leuchtet dort?"
Helen Watts, Vienna Philharmonic, Grace Hoffman, Anita Valkki, Georg Solti
Introduktion - Gebet. "Allmächt'ger Vater" (Rienzi)
R. Wagner
"Mild und leise wie er lächelt" (Isoldes Liebestod) (Isolde)
"Komm, Holder Knabe!"
Simina Ivan, Inna Los, Antigone Papoulkas, Plácido Domingo, Ildikó Raimondi, Nadia Krasteva, Christian Thielemann, Chorus of the Vienna State Opera, Bori Keszei, Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera
"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!"
Welch Brausen erfüllt die Luft?
Christian Thielemann, Czech Philharmonic Choir of Brno, Dresden Philharmonic Choir, Dresdner Kammerchor, Staatskapelle Dresden, Saxon State Opera Chorus, Dresden, Czech National Choir Prague, Central German Radio Chorus, Dresden Symphony Chorus
Freudig begrussen wir die edle Hall
Bernd Weikl, Donald Litaker, Klaus König, Waltraud Meier, Walton Grönroos, Lucia Popp, Siegfried Jerusalem, Gabriele Sima, Bernard Haitink, Bavarian Radio Chorus, Rainer Scholze, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kurt Moll, Vier Tölzer Knaben
"Selig, wie die Sonne"
Horst Laubenthal, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Catarina Ligendza, Christa Ludwig, Eugen Jochum, Plácido Domingo
Den Zeugen, Denk' es (Live)
Gösta Winbergh, Sir John Tomlinson, Gwynne Howell, Royal Opera Chorus, Bernard Haitink, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Verachtet mir die Meister nicht (Live)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Sir John Tomlinson, Royal Opera Chorus, Bernard Haitink