Description
Great Singers Sing: Wagner - Frida Leider, Margarete Baumer, Johanna Gadski, Helen Traubel, Germain Lubin, u.a./a.m.o. / History 2x Audio CD 2001 / 205659-303
UPC 4011222056597
Wilhelm Richard Wagner (/ˈvɑːɡnər/ VAHG-nər; German: [ˈʁɪçaʁt ˈvaːɡnɐ]; 22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) 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).
| Label: |
History – 205659-303 |
|---|---|
| Format: |
2x CD, Compilation
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| Country: | Europe |
| Released: |
2001 |
| Genre: | Classical |
Tracklist:
CD 1
FRIDA LEIDER (1888-1975), Sopran/soprano
01. PARSIFAL: Ichsahdas Kind 4:22
02. GOTTERDAMMERUNG / TWILIGHT OF THE GODS: Starke Scheite schichtet mir dort 11:38
MARGARETE BAUMER (1898-1969), Sopran/soprano
03. GOTTERDAMMERUNG / TWILIGHT OF THE GODS: Helle Wehr 3:08
04. SIEGFRIED: Heil dir, Sonne!...Ob ich jetzt dein 15:15
JOHANNA GADSKI (1872-1932), Sopran/soprano
05. GOTTERDAMMERUNG / TWILIGHT OF THE GODS: Fliegt heim, ihr Raben 2:46
06. DER FLIEGENDE HOLLANDER / THE FLYING DUTCHMAN: Versank ich jetzt in wunderbaren Traumen 3:25
07. Wohl kenn'ich 3:32
08. TRISTAN UND ISOLDE: Mild und leise 4:09
CD 2
HELEN TRAUBEL (1899-1972), Sopran/soprano
01. LOHENGRIN: Das siisse Lied verhalit 17:17
02. TRISTAN UND ISOLDE: Erfuhrest du meine Schmach 9:17
GERMAINE LUBIN (1890-1979), Sopran/soprano
03. SIEGFRIED: Ewig warich 4:21
04. GOTTERDAMMERUNG / TWILIGHT OF THE GODS: Starke Scheite schichtet mir dort 15:12
ROSETTE ANDAY (1903-1977), Alt/alto
05. GOTTERDAMMERUNG / TWILIGHT OF THE GODS: Seit er von Dir geschieden 8:47
06. TRISTAN UND ISOLDE: Einsam wachend 3:51
FLORENCE AUSTRAL (1894-1968), Sopran/soprano
07. DiE WALKURE / VALKYRIE: Siegmund, Sieh auf mich! 12:53
