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Wagner - Great Scenes From The Ring - Birgit Nilsson, Wolfgang Windgassen, Hans Hotter, Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti / Virtuoso / Decca Audio CD 2012 / 478 4215
UPC 028947842156
Wilhelm Richard Wagner (/ˈvɑːɡnər/ VAHG-nər; German: [ˈʁɪçaʁt ˈvaːɡnɐ]; 22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. Initially establishing his reputation as a composer of works in the romantic vein of Carl Maria von Weber and Giacomo Meyerbeer, Wagner revolutionised opera through his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk ("total work of art"), by which he sought to synthesise the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, with music subsidiary to drama. He described this vision in a series of essays published between 1849 and 1852. Wagner realised these ideas most fully in the first half of the four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung).
| Label: | Decca – 478 4215 |
|---|---|
| Series: | Virtuoso |
| Format: |
CD, Compilation
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| Country: | Europe |
| Released: |
2012 |
| Genre: | Classical |
| Style: | Romantic, Opera |
Tracklist:
| Das Rheingold | |||
| 1 | Prelude |
5:28 | |
| 2 | Descent In To Nibelheim |
4:33 | |
| 3 | Entry of the Gods in to Valhalla |
10:21 | |
|
Die Walküre |
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| 4 | Prelude (Act 1) |
4:07 | |
| 5 | Prelude (Act 2) |
5:07 | |
| 6 | Ride Of The Valkyries |
6:23 | |
| 7 | Magic Fire Music |
4:41 | |
|
Siegfried |
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| 8 | Forest Murmurs |
5:12 | |
| 9 | Siegfried And The Dragon |
5:44 | |
|
Götterdämmerung |
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| 10 | Siegfried´s Rhine Journey |
5:58 | |
| 11 | Siegfried´s Funeral March |
7:52 | |
| 12 | Brünnhilde´s Immolation |
11:16 |
- Baritone Vocals [Donner] – Eberhard Wächter (tracks: 1 to 3)
- Bass Vocals [Alberich] – Gustav Neidlinger (tracks: 1 to 3)
- Bass Vocals [Fafner] – Kurt Böhme (tracks: 8 to 9)
- Bass Vocals [Hagen] – Gottlob Frick (tracks: 10 to 12)
- Bass Vocals [Wotan] – George London (2) (tracks: 1 to 3), Hans Hotter (tracks: 4 to 7)
- Composed By – Richard Wagner
- Conductor – Georg Solti
- Contralto Vocals [Flosshilde] – Ira Malaniuk (tracks: 1 to 3)
- Contralto Vocals [Schwertleite] – Helen Watts (tracks: 4 to 7)
- Contralto Vocals [Wellgunde] – Hetty Plümacher (tracks: 1 to 3)
- Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Rossweisse] – Claudia Hellmann (tracks: 4 to 7)
- Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Waltraude] – Brigitte Fassbaender (tracks: 4 to 7)
- Orchestra – Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
- Soprano Vocals [Brünnhilde] [Brünnhilde] – Birgit Nilsson (tracks: 4 to 12)
- Soprano Vocals [Frika] – Kirsten Flagstad (tracks: 1 to 3)
- Soprano Vocals [Gerhilde] – Vera Schlosser (tracks: 4 to 7)
- Soprano Vocals [Grimgerde] – Marilyn Tyler (tracks: 4 to 7)
- Soprano Vocals [Helmwige] – Berit Lindholm (tracks: 4 to 7)
- Soprano Vocals [Ortlinde] – Helga Dernesch (tracks: 4 to 7)
- Soprano Vocals [Woglinde] – Oda Balsborg (tracks: 1 to 3)
- Tenor Vocals [Froh] – Waldemar Kmentt (tracks: 1 to 3)
- Tenor Vocals [Loge] – Set Svanholm (tracks: 1 to 3)
- Tenor Vocals [Mime] – Paul Küen* (tracks: 1 to 3)
- Tenor Vocals [Siegfried] – Wolfgang Windgassen (tracks: 8 to 9)
