The Great Composers in Words and Music - Wagner (in englischer Sprache) (CD)

1 Introduction
2 Einleitung (3. Akt)
3 On laying the foundation stone of the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on 22 May 1872, Richard Wagner - who turned 59 years old...
4 5. Presto
5 An extract from Ludwig van Beethoven's String Quartet in C sharp minor, Op. 131 is a useful place to start to sketch...
6 1. Sostenuto e maestoso - Allegro con brio
7 Given his family's theatrical pursuits, it is perhaps no surprise that Wagner turned his attention from the concert...
8 Ouvertüre
9 Wagner's second completed opera Das Liebesverbot ("The Ban on Love"), a comic opera in two acts modelled on...
10 Chor der Friedensboten
11 Triumph, however, did not ensue. Rather, calamity, disillusionment and failure.
12 Die Frist ist um
13 Success with Rienzi brought immediate benefits, not least the premiere on 2 January 1843 - also at the Dresden...
14 Vorspiel (1. Akt)
15 There was a reason that Wagner did not conduct, or even attend, the Weimar premiere of Lohengrin in the late summer of..
16 Ritt der Walküren
17 It would be some time before music such as this, Ride of the Valkyries from Wagner's Die Walküre, would be heard in...
18 Weiche, Wotan weiche! Flieh' des Ringes Fluch!
19 Wagner's symphonic-style orchestra writing has been thought to betray the influence of a composer mentioned at the...
20 Vorspiel (1. Akt)
21 A second major work by Wagner created during the lengthy hiatus in the composition of the Ring provided a stark...
22 Wacht auf, es nahet gen den Tag
23 Wagner had begun the music to Die Meistersinger in February 1862 while living temporarily in Mainz.
24 Venusbergmusik
25 A period of relative calm and contentment was to ensue, thanks entirely to the intervention of the eighteen-year old...
26 Siegfrieds Trauermarsch
27 Following the premiere of the complete Ring cycle - comprising no less than sixteen hours of music extended over four...
28 Höchsten Heiles Wunder!