Richard Wagner

(1813-83)

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The Britannic Organ Vol. 3: Music on the High Seas

The Britannic Organ Vol. 3: Music on the High Seas


Bach, J S:

Toccata & Fugue in D minor, BWV565

David Rumsey (organ)

Blaufuchs:

My Isle of Golden Dreams

Hans Hauser (organ)

Bonnet:

In Memoriam - Titanic, Op. 10 No. 1

Joseph Bonnet (organ)

Chopin:

Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35 'Marche funèbre': 3rd movement (Funeral March)

Marco Enrico Bossi (organ)

Debussy:

Préludes - Book 1: No. 10, La cathédrale engloutie

Bernard ten Cate (attributed - organ)

Dubois, T:

Toccata

David Rumsey (organ)

Dvorak:

Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 'From the New World' - Adagio - Allegro molto

handmade roll (anonymous, but probably created by Franz Xavier Franz)

Dykes:

Nearer, my God, to thee (Horbury)

David Rumsey (organ)

Eternal Father, strong to save

David Rumsey (organ)

Hein:

Pawnee

Hans Hauser (organ)

Hofmann, H:

Barcarole, Op. 46

Edwin Lemare (organ)

Lanner:

Altwiener Waltz

Artur Schnabel (organ)

Lemmens:

Grand Fantasia in E minor (The Storm)

Harry Goss-Custard (organ)

Malderen:

Le tango du rêve

Hans Hauser (organ)

Mason, L:

Nearer My God to Thee

David Rumsey (organ)

Mendelssohn:

Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, Op. 27

Harry Goss-Custard (organ)

Monk, W H:

Abide with me

Harry Goss-Custard (organ)

Perez-Freire:

Ting-a-Ling

Hans Hauser (organ)

Ay-ay-ay

Hans Hauser (organ)

Sullivan, A:

Propior Deo (Nearer My God to Thee)

David Rumsey (organ)

trad.:

Song of the Volga Boatmen

Paul Mania (organ)

Wagner:

Der Fliegende Holländer: highlights

Franz Xavier Franz (handmade roll)

Wolstenholme:

Barcarolle

William Wolstenholme (organ)


Die Welte-Philharmonie-Orgel im Museum für Musikautomaten Seewen, CH

The third volume in this Welte-Philharmonic-Organ series is dedicated primarily to entertainment on board a steamer. It also pays tribute to the sister ship of the Britannic, the Titanic. The CD includes In Memoriam Titanic written in commemoration, as 2012 marks the 100th anniversary of the maiden voyage. Also included is Chopin’s Funeral March, 20th century “cinematic accompaniment” and dance music.

Oehms - The Britannic Organ - OC841

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Wagner: Overtures Vol. 2

Wagner: Overtures Vol. 2


Wagner:

Rienzi Overture

Der fliegende Holländer: Overture

Tannhäuser: Overture

Lohengrin: Preludes to Acts 1 & 3

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Overture


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Klemperer Rarities: Budapest, Vol. 5 (1948)

Klemperer Rarities: Budapest, Vol. 5 (1948)


Wagner:

Lohengrin

(sung in Hungarian)


Jozsef Simandy (tenor), Laszlo Jambor (baritone), Ella Nemethyi (mezzo-soprano), Gyorgy Losonczy (baritone), Sandor Remenyi (tenor), Magda Rigo (soprano)

Budapest State Opera Choir, Budapest State Opera Orchestra, Otto Klemperer

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Klemperer Rarities: Budapest, Vol. 6 (1949)

Klemperer Rarities: Budapest, Vol. 6 (1949)


Wagner:

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

(sung in Hungarian)


Joszef Somlo (tenor), Gyorgy Losonczy (baritone), Endre Varhelyi (bass), Mihaly Szekely (bass), Jozsef Joviczky (tenor), Jozsef Simandy (tenor), Lajos Somogyvari (tenor), Julia Osvath (soprano), Oszkar Maleczky (baritone), Lajos Katona (bass), Pal Rissay (bass), Ervin Galsay (bass), Gyula Toronyi (tenor), Istvan Koszo (baritone), Janos Sardy (tenor), Maria Budanovits (mezzo-soprano)

Hungarian State Opera Orchestra, Hungarian State Opera Chorus, Otto Klemperer

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Klemperer Rarities: New York, Vol. 3 (1942)

Klemperer Rarities: New York, Vol. 3 (1942)

Rehearsals 29 January 1942


Brahms:

Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98

Wagner:

Tristan und Isolde: Prelude to Act 1


National Youth's Administration Orchestra, Otto Klemperer

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Great Swedish Singers: Set Svanholm (1943-1958)

Great Swedish Singers: Set Svanholm (1943-1958)


Rossini:

Largo al factotum (from Il barbiere di Siviglia)

Söderman:

Kung Heimer och Aslög (Text: Frans Hedberg)

Strauss, R:

Circe, Circe, kannst du mich horen? (from Ariadne auf Naxos)

Wagner:

Ein Schwert verhieß mir der Vater (from Die Walküre)

Mime hiess ein mürrischer Zwerg (from Götterdammerung)

Morgenlich leuchtend im rosigen Schein 'Prize Song' (from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg)

Weber:

Nein! länger trag' ich nicht die Qualen…Durch die Wälder (from Der Freischütz)


Set Svanholm (tenor), Florence Widgren (vocals), Inge-Gerd Norlin (vocals), Hjordis Schymberg (soprano), Birgit Nilsson (soprano), Elisabeth Soderstrom (soprano), Sigurd Bjorling (baritone)

Swedish Radio Orchestra, Stockholm Royal Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Sandberg, Nils Grevillius, Sixten Ehrling, Lars-Erik Larsson, Tor Mann

Bluebell Great Swedish Singers - ABCD058

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Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll, Wesendonck-Lieder & Symphony in C

Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll, Wesendonck-Lieder & Symphony in C


Wagner:

Siegfried Idyll

Wesendonck-Lieder (5)

Helena Dose (soprano)

Symphony in C major


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Wagner: Götterdämmerung

Wagner: Götterdämmerung

1956 Recording


Kirsten Flagstad (Brünnhilde), Set Svanholm (Siegfried), Egil Nordsjø (Hagen), Per Gronnenberg (Alberich), Ingrid Bjoner (Gutrune/Dritte Norn), Eva Gustavson (Erste Norn), Waldemar Johnsen (Gunther), Unni Bugge-Hanssen (Woglinde), Karen Flagstad (Wellgunde/Zweite Norn), Beate Asserson (Flosshilde)

Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra & Norwegian State Radio Orchestra, Øivin Fjeldstad

Mark Obert-Thorn, reissue producer and restoration engineer

In January 1956 Norwegian Radio broadcast an almost complete performance of Götterdämmerung starring Kirsten Flagstad and Set Svanholm, and conducted by Øivin Fjeldstad. Despite opportunities to re-record the work in Vienna, Flagstad was insistent that this performance be released. Most of the missing sections were then recorded, and the resultant LP was the first (almost complete) commercial recording of the work on disc.

Flagstad, the great Wagnerian, is in resplendent voice and Svanholm proves a worthy partner. This elusive set remains a milestone in Wagner performance.

“this is the ultimate 'A for effort' performance. It remained, for nearly a decade, the only way of hearing much of Gotterdammerung on the gramophone and remains, for that reason, an important historical curio. You will not hear it better than in this new transfer.” Gramophone Magazine, July 2012

“the famous aureate amplitude of [Flagstad's] voice is still very much in evidence at certain points and there are frequent glimmers of the old majesty. One is still conscious of the sheer size of the voice even when the tone is a little curdled...The conducting is unexpectedly first-rate. This is alternately driven and sensitive, by a conductor of whom most of us will never have heard, Øivin Fjeldstad.” MusicWeb International, June 2012

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Naxos Historical - 8112066-69

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A Musical Journey: Germany & Italy

A Musical Journey: Germany & Italy

A Musical Visit to Bavarian Palaces and Italy’s Southern Tyrol


The Places

Ludwig II of Bavaria followed family precedent in undertaking an extravagant building programme during his relatively short reign from 1864 to 1886.

The castles constructed on his orders included the romantic Neuschwanstein and the magnificent Schloss Linderhof, with its elaborate formal gardens, grottoes and fountains. The tour ends with a brief glimpse of the mountainous Southern Tyrol in winter snow.

The Music

Richard Wagner’s innovative and immensely influential music dramas were largely based on older German legend, notably on the Nibelungenlied, the basis of his tetralogy The Ring. Ludwig II was fascinated by Wagner and by his operas, on subjects that had long been dear to him. These include the opera Lohengrin, which Ludwig first saw in 1861, the beginning of his preoccupation with Wagner, and the earlier opera Tannhäuser. The music chosen also includes an overture by Heinrich Marschner to an opera based on the old Bohemian legend of Hans Heiling, son of an Earth Spirit.

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Martha Mödl: The Portrait of a Legend

Martha Mödl: The Portrait of a Legend


Beethoven:

Lieder von Gellert (6), Op. 48

Fortner:

Nachbarinnen! Mit einem Messer (from Bluthochzeit)

Reimann, A:

Heut, hier und jetzt wird es entschieden (from Melusine)

Strauss, R:

Was willst du? Seht doch dort! (from Elektra)

Tchaikovsky:

Akh, istomilas' ya gorem from The Queen of Spades

Sung in German

Wagner:

Gerechter Gott! (from Rienzi)

Tristan und Isolde (excerpts)

Wesendonck-Lieder (5)

Der Männer Sippe (from Die Walküre)

Du bist der Lenz (from Die Walküre)

Starke Scheite schichtet mir dort 'Brünnhilde's Immolation Scene' (from Götterdämmerung)


Martha Mödl (soprano)

“I cannot praise Mödl’s wonderful voice enough...I congratulate Profil for releasing this excellent set of previously unreleased live recordings. Sincere thanks are also owed to the Mödl enthusiast who provided these recordings. Opera-lovers everywhere will delight in this stunning voice.” MusicWeb International, 26th April 2013

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