Ride of the Valkyries from 'Die Walkure'. Overture to the Mastersingers of Nuremburg'. Overt / Apollo Classics CD Audio 1996

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Wilhelm Richard Wagner (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).

Tracklist:

• 1) RIDE OF THE VALKYRIES FROM 'DIE WALKURE' - London Symphony Orchestra (George Richter)
• 2) OVERTURE TO 'THE MASTERSINGERS OF NUREMBERG' - Hamburg Symphony Orchestra (Hans-Jurgen Walther)
• 3) OVERTURE TO 'TANNHAUSER" - London Symphony Orchestra (George Richter)
• 4) OVERTURE TO 'THE FLYING DUTCHMAN' - Hamburg Symphony Orchestra (Hans-Jurgen Walther)
• 5) WEDDING MARCH FROM 'LOHENGRIN' - Hamburg Symphony Orchestra (Hans-Jurgen Walther)
• 6) PRELUDE TO ACT OF 'LOHENGRIN' - Hamburg Symphony Orchestra (Hans-Jurgen Walther)
• 7) PRELUDE TO 'TRISTAN AND ISOLDE' - London Symphony Orchestra (George Richter)