Richard Wagner (Composer)
Born: 22nd May 1813, Leipzig
Died: 13th February 1883, Venice
Nationality: German
Wilhelm Richard Wagner 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).
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In The Shadows with Michael Spyres
The American singer teams up with Les Talens Lyriques and Christophe Rousset to explore some of the operas which influenced Wagner - including works by Méhul, Beethoven, Meyerbeer and Spontini.
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Dominic Fyfe and Philip Siney on remastering Solti's Ring Cycle
In the wake of winning Gramophone's Spatial Audio Award for their painstaking work on Die Walküre, Decca's producer Dominic Fyfe and sound-engineer Philip Siney discuss how they went about showcasing Solti's landmark achievement in all its glory.
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Popular Works: Wagner
- Bridal Chorus 'Treulich geführt' (from Lohengrin) (46)
- Das Rheingold (115)
- Das Rheingold: Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla (48)
- Der fliegende Holländer (68)
- Der fliegende Holländer: Overture (171)
- Der Ring des Nibelungen (46)
- Dich, teure Halle (from Tannhauser) (60)
- Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (67)
- Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Overture (202)
- Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Prelude to Act 3 (43)
- Die Walküre (159)
- Die Walküre: Act 3 (53)
- Die Walkure: Magic Fire Music (42)
- Die Walküre: Ride of the Valkyries (211)
- Faust Overture, WWV59 (45)
- Götterdämmerung (122)
- Götterdämmerung: Siegfried's Funeral March (92)
- Götterdämmerung: Siegfried's Rhine Journey (41)
- Götterdämmerung: Starke Scheite schichtet mir dort 'Brünnhilde's Immolation Scene' (64)
- In fernem Land (from Lohengrin) (59)
- Lohengrin (61)
- Lohengrin: Prelude to Act 1 (142)
- Lohengrin: Prelude to Act 3 (102)
- Mild und leise 'Isolde's Liebestod' (from Tristan und Isolde) (99)
- O du, mein holder Abendstern (from Tannhäuser) (40)
- Parsifal (81)
- Parsifal: Good Friday Music (65)
- Parsifal: Prelude to Act 1 (83)
- Rienzi Overture (112)
- Siegfried (115)
- Siegfried Idyll (203)
- Siegfried: Waldweben (60)
- Tannhäuser (51)
- Tannhäuser: Overture (175)
- Tannhäuser: Overture and Venusberg Music (41)
- Träume (No. 5 from Wesendonck-Lieder) (42)
- Tristan und Isolde (94)
- Tristan und Isolde: Prelude & Liebestod (171)
- Tristan und Isolde: Prelude to Act 1 (69)
- Wesendonck-Lieder (5) (148)
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