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...

BOULT & BBC SO Pre-War Recordings, Volume 3 (1932-37) - PASC743

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BORODIN Prince Igor – Polovtsian March
BRAHMS Tragic Overture, 3 Hungarian Dances
HUMPERDINCK Hansel und Gretel - Overture & Dream Pantomime
SAINT-SAËNS Samson et Dalila - Bacchanale
SIBELIUS The Oceanides, Night Ride & Sunrise
TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade for Strings, Eugene Onegin - Polonaise
WAGNER Die Meistersinger, Tristan und Isolde, Parsifal excerpts

Studio recordings, 1932-1937
Total duration: 2hr 4:45

BBC Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Sir Adrian Boult

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BRAILOWSKY The Complete Polydor Recordings, Volume 2 (1928-36) - PAKM079

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LISZT Piano Concerto No. 1
Solo works and transcriptions of music by DEBUSSY, FALLA, LISZT, MENDELSSOHN, SCARLATTI, SCHUBERT, SCHUMANN, SCRIABIN, WAGNER, WEBER

Studio recordings, 1928-1936
Total duration: 1hr 58:16

Alexander Brailowsky, piano
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
conducted by Julius Prüwer

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BRENDEL plays Liszt (1955-58) - PAKM090

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LISZT Harmonies poétiques et religieuses
LISZT Années de pèlerinage
LISZT Grandes études de Paganini
LISZT Operatic transcriptions

Studio recordings, 1955-58
Total duration: 79:25

Alfred Brendel, piano

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CANTELLI in New York - The 1955-1956 Broadcast Collection - PABX056

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BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos. 3, 4 and 5
BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1; Alto Rhapsody
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 21
HAYDN Symphony No. 93
SCHUMANN Symphony No. 4
VIVALDI L'Estro Armonico: Concerto Grosso No. 11 in D minor, RV565 (1955 and 1956 performances)
RAVEL Pavane pour une infante défunte
FALLA El Sombrero des Tres Picos, Suite No. 2
PISTON Toccata
COPLAND El Salón México
R. STRAUSS Don Juan
CRESTON Dance Overture
WAGNER Parsifal – Good Friday Spell
VERDI Te Deum
MONTEVERDI Magnificat (arr. Ghedini)
HANDEL Xerxes – Largo
HINDEMITH Concert Music for Strings and Brass

Six live CBS broadcast concerts, Carnegie Hall, New York, 6 March 1955–8 April 1956
Total duration: 7:06:07, including radio commentary by Jim Fassett

New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Guido Cantelli
Walter Gieseking, piano (Mozart No. 21; Beethoven No. 5)
Rudolf Firkušný, piano (Beethoven No. 3; Brahms No. 1)
Wilhelm Backhaus, piano (Beethoven No. 4)
Martha Lipton, alto
Westminster Choir, directed by John Finley Williamson

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CANTELLI in New York, Vol. 3: Wagner, Verdi, Brahms, Monteverdi, Handel, Hindemith (1956) - PASC523

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WAGNER Parsifal - Good Friday Spell
VERDI Te Deum
BRAHMS Alto Rhapsody
MONTEVERDI Magnificat
HANDEL Xerxes - Largo
BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1
HINDEMITH Concert Music For Strings And Brass

Live broadcast concerts, 1956
Total duration: 2hr 15:36

Martha Lipton, alto
Rudolf Firkušný, piano
New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Guido Cantelli

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CANTELLI NBC Concert No. 30: Schubert, Britten, Wagner (1953) - PASC169

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SCHUBERT Symphony No. 8, 'Unfinished'
BRITTEN Sinfonia da Requiem
WAGNER Rienzi - Overture

Recorded 1953
Total duration: 54:21

NBC Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Guido Cantelli

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