Various Artists (Classic) - Wagner (1813-1883);Great Composers In Words & Music - Import CD

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Various Artists (Classic)

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Richard Wagner was a man of extraordinary talent, who wrote numerous operas based on his own scripts and designed and completed the Bayreuth Festival Theater for the performance of his works, while living a life of great debt and infidelity with a married woman. His exceptional talent was not limited to music; he was also highly regarded as a writer and theorist, and his influence on Europe in the late 19th century was so widespread that he became a cornerstone of the culture of the time. The KONO album includes a biography of the genius, describing his struggles and the people around him, as well as Beethoven's string quartets that influenced him, his own symphonies, early operas, "The Wandering Dutchman," "Tristan and Isolde," "Lohengrin," "The Ring of the Nibelung," and "The Nibelung's Ring," and "The Nibelung's Ring. The quartet also includes excerpts from such masterpieces as "The Wandering Dutchman," "Tristan and Isolde," "Lohengrin," "The Ring," "Parsifal," and many others.Songs used:Lohengrin, Act 1 - Prelude, Act 3 - Prelude, Symphony in C major - 1st movement, The Fairies, Act 1 - Overture, Rienzi, Act 2 - Chorus with Messengers of Peace, The Wandering Dutchman, Act 1 - Expired, Valkyrie, Act 3 - Ride of the Valkyries, Gold of the Rhine, Scene 4 - Escape the Curse of the Ring! Tristan und Isolde, Act 1 - Prelude, "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg," Act 3 - Awake, morning approaches, "Tannhäuser," Act 1 - Music of Wennberg, "Twilight of the Gods," Act 3, Scene 2 - Siegfried's funeral march, "Parsifal," Act 3 - The unsurpassed salvation Miracle! Beethoven: String Quartet No. 14 - 5th movement, 14 pieces in total (with fade-ins and fade-outs) Naxos Japan