On one of the most highly anticipated releases of the year, Ivan Fischer conducts music of Richard Wagner, offering a demonstration quality surround-sound disc featuring excerpts of favorite passages from Gotterdammerung and Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, coupled with the Siegfried Idyll. Joined by soprano Petra Lang, Fischer's hand-picked Budapest Festival Orchestra shines in these evergreen selections from some of Wagner's most popular operas.