Wagner: Orchestral Excerpts, Vol. 1

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
August 28, 2012
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      WAGNER, RICHARD
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Seattle Symphony
    • PERFORMER
      Schwarz
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 28, 2012
    • UPC
      747313276776
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8572767
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman): Overture

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Ensemble: Seattle Symphony

      Conductor: Gerard Schwarz

    2. Das Rheingold, Scene 4: Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla (arr. H. Zumpe for orchestra)

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Ensemble: Seattle Symphony

      Conductor: Gerard Schwarz

    3. Die Walküre, Act III: Leb' wohl … Loge hor! Lausche hieher, "Wotan's Farewell" - Feuerzauber (Magic Fire music)

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Ensemble: Seattle Symphony

      Conductor: Gerard Schwarz

    4. Siegfried, Act II: Forest Murmurs (arr. W. Hutschenruyter for orchestra)

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Ensemble: Seattle Symphony

      Conductor: Gerard Schwarz

    5. Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods), Act I: Dawn - Siegfried's Rhine Journey - Act III: Siegfried's Funeral March - Finale

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Ensemble: Seattle Symphony

      Conductor: Gerard Schwarz


This selection of some of Wagner's finest orchestral excerpts opens with the 'storm-swept ballad' of Der fliegende Holle�nder, the opera which launched his epoch-defining later masterpieces. The entire span of Der Ring des Nibelungen is represented in this program, from the luminous rainbow bridge which leads the gods to Valhalla in Das Rheingold, the urgent drama of Die Walkure, and the atmospheric repose of the Forest Murmurs in Siegfried, to the tragic depths of Siegfried's Funeral March. This recording has been praised for it's 'radiant sensuousness'. (Gramophone) Volumes 2 and 3 in this series are available on 8.572768 and 8.572769.