Wagner

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...
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WAGNER The Potted Ring - Volume One
DAS RHEINGOLD
DIE WALKÜRE

Studio recordings, 1926-32
Total duration: 2hr 33:07

Frida Leider ∙ Friedrich Schorr ∙ Emmi Leisner
Florence Austral ∙ Walter Widdop ∙ Göta Ljungberg
Albert Coates ∙ Leo Blech, conductors

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WAGNER The Potted Ring - Volume 3: Götterdämmerung, Motives and Extras

Studio recordings, 1926-31
Total duration: 2hr 23:59 and 60:30

Florence Austral ∙ Walter Widdop
Rudolf Laubenthal ∙ Maartje Offers ∙ Ivar Andrésen
Lauritz Melchior ∙ Friedrich Schorr
Götterdämmerung: Albert Coates ∙ Leo Blech
Appendix: Lawrance Collingwood ∙ Leo Blech ∙ Karl Muck

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WAGNER The Potted Ring - Volume Two: Siegfried

Studio recordings, 1928-32
Total duration: 2hr 31:10

Lauritz Melchior ∙ Florence Easton ∙ Friedrich Schorr
Heinrich Tessmer ∙ Eduard Habich ∙ Albert Reiss
Rudolf Bockelmann ∙ Emil Schipper ∙ Maria Olszewska ∙ Nora Gruhn
Robert Heger ∙ Albert Coates ∙ Karl Alwin, conductors

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SCHUMANN Symphony No. 1
SCHUMANN Symphony No. 3
WAGNER Parsifal - Orchestral excerpts
R. STRAUSS Salome - Orchestral excerpts

Studio recordings, 1933-46
Total duration: 79:32

National Symphony Orchestra
Paris Conservatoire Orchestra
Pasdeloup Orchestra
Piero Coppola, conductor

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BRAHMS Symphony No. 4 in E minor
R. STRAUSS Death and Transfiguration
WAGNER Tristan und Isolde: Prelude & Liebestod
VERDI Aïda: Prelude to Act 1
KODALY Dances of Galánta
RESPIGHI Feste Romane

Studio Recordings · 1939
Total duration: 2hr 06:21

Victor de Sabata
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

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BACH Prelude and Fugue in E-flat, “St. Anne”
BACH Toccata and Fugue in D minor
BENJAMIN Overture to an Italian Comedy
BRAHMS Piano Quartet No. 1
CHAUSSON Symphony in B-flat
DVOŘÁK Carnival Overture
DVOŘÁK In Nature’s Realm
ELGAR Enigma Variations
GLAZUNOV The Seasons
GLINKA Ruslan and Ludmila - Overture
GOLDMARK Rustic Wedding Symphony
GRIEG Peer Gynt excerpts
MENDELSSOHN A Midsummer Night’s Dream excerpts
R. STRAUSS Also Sprach Zarathustra
R. STRAUSS Aus Italien - On the Shores of Sorrento
SAINT-SAËNS Danse macabre
SMETANA The Bartered Bride - Overture
STOCK Symphonic Waltz
TCHAIKOVSKY 1812 Overture
TCHAIKOVSKY Marche slave
WAGNER Siegfried - Forest Murmurs
WAGNER Die Meistersinger - Prelude
PLUS MUSIC BY: BIZET, CAREY, DOHNÁNYI, ENESCU, François Schubert, GLIÈRE, HANDEL, IPPOLITOV-IVANOV, J. Strauss II, Järnefelt, LIADOV, MACDOWELL, MEACHAM, MOZART, PAGANINI, Ponchielli, Rezniček, Rimsky-Korsakov, Schubert, Schumann, Sibelius, Simonetti, Suk, Suppé, Thomas, Toch, Volkmann, Walton, Weber and Wolf-Ferrari

Studio recordings, 1930-1941

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Frederick Stock