Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is primarily known for his operas (or, as some of his later 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 Weber and Meyerbeer, Wagner rev...

ARTUR RODZIŃSKI and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Complete Recordings (1947/52) - PASC569

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R. STRAUSS Also Sprach Zarathustra
WAGNER Tristan und Isolde – excerpts
MENDELSSOHN “Scottish” Symphony
KHACHATURIAN Gayaneh Suite
plus: the complete Remington recordings:
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 1
BEETHOVEN Leonore Overture No. 3

Studio recordings, 1947/52
Total duration: 2hr 14:57

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Tonkünstler Orchester
conducted by Artur Rodziński

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BEECHAM in Seattle, Volume 1: Delius, Elgar, Wagner (1943) - PASC212

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WAGNER Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - Prelude to Act III
ELGAR Variations on an Original Theme ('Enigma'), Op.36
WAGNER Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - Overture
ELGAR Serenade for String Orchestra, Op. 20 - 2. Larghetto
WAGNER Der fliegende Holländer - Overture
DELIUS On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring

Recorded 1943
Total duration: 67:00

Seattle Symphony
conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham

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BEECHAM The ABC Blue Network Concerts, Complete (1945) - PABX016

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NICOLAI The Merry Wives of Windsor: Overture
ELGAR Serenade for Strings
HANDEL-BEECHAM Love in Bath: The Great Elopement
DELIUS The Walk to the Paradise Garden
J. STRAUSS II Voices of Spring
WAGNER Götterdämmerung: Siegfried’s Funeral March
SIBELIUS Pelléas et Mélisande Suite: The Death of Mélisande
MOZART Divertimento, K 131: Adagio
SCHUBERT Symphony No. 8, “Unfinished.”
TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade in C: Elegie
BERLIOZ Les Troyens: Trojan March
MOZART Symphony No. 31
HANDEL-BEECHAM Piano Concerto
CHABRIER España
MOZART The Impresario - Overture
SAINT-SAENS Omphale’s Spinning Wheel
BERLIOZ The Trojans - Royal Hunt and Storm
BERLIOZ Hungarian March

Recorded in 1945

Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor
Blue Network Symphony Orchestra

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BEECHAM The ABC Blue Network Concerts, Volume 2 (1945) - PASC470

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WAGNER Götterdämmerung: Siegfried’s Funeral March
SIBELIUS Pelléas et Mélisande Suite: The Death of Mélisande
MOZART Divertimento, K 131: Adagio
SCHUBERT Symphony No. 8, “Unfinished.”
TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade in C: Elegie
BERLIOZ Les Troyens: Trojan March

Live broadcast on ABC/Blue Network, 4pm, 14 April 1945
Total duration: 57:50

Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor
Blue Network Symphony Orchestra

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BODANZKY conducts Wagner et al (1927-29) - PASC537

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WAGNER Tannhäuser – Overture
WAGNER Lohengrin – Preludes to Acts 1 & 3
WAGNER Die Meistersinger – Overture
Overtures and short works by
BERLIOZ ∙ MOZART ∙ OFFENBACH ∙ SUPPÉ ∙ THOMAS ∙ J. STRAUSS II

Studio recordings, 1927-29
Total duration: 75:51

Berlin State Opera Orchestra
conducted by Artur Bodanzky

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BÖHM Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (1960, Met) - PACO135

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WAGNER Tristan und Isolde

Live broadcast recording, 1960
Producer and XR Remastering: Andrew Rose
Cover artwork based on a photograph of Birgit Nilsson as Isolde, Met Opera 1959/60
Total duration: 3hr 22:30

Tristan - Ramón Vinay
Isolde - Birgit Nilsson
Orchestra & Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera
Karl Böhm, conductor

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