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Richard Wagner: Der Fliegende Holländer (London 1937) - Fritz Reiner / Richard Wagner Edition / Golden Melodram 2x Audio CD 2002 / GM 1.0064
UPC 608974110642
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).
Frederick Martin Reiner (December 19, 1888 – November 15, 1963) was an American conductor of opera and symphonic music in the twentieth century. Hungarian born and trained, he emigrated to the United States in 1922, where he rose to prominence as a conductor with several orchestras. He reached the pinnacle of his career while music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in the 1950s and early 1960s.
Label: | Golden Melodram – GM 1.0064 |
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Series: | Richard Wagner Edition |
Format: |
2 x CD
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Country: | Slovenia |
Released: |
2002 |
Genre: | Classical |
Style: | Opera, Romantic |
Tracklist:
CD 1 | Erster Aufzug; Zweiter Aufzug [beginning] | |
CD 2 |
Zweiter Aufzug [conclusion]; Dritter Aufzug |
- Chorus – Chorus Of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
- Orchestra – The London Philharmonic Orchestra