Wagner: Orchestral Music
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Wagner: - Overture - Act I: "Naht euch dem Strande" View on Youtube
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
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Wagner: - Prelude To Act III - Bridal Chorus View on Youtube
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Wagner: - The Ride Of The Valkyries View on Youtube
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Wagner: - Siegfried's Funeral March View on Youtube
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Epic interpretations of orchestral music from Wagner’s music dramas, conducted by James Levine
In 1991 and 1995, James Levine recorded two albums for Deutsche Grammophon which have become known as ‘bleeding chunks’, in Ernest Newman’s phrase, from Wagner’s operas. Collected together for the first time on this Eloquence reissue, they form a comprehensive survey of overtures, preludes and excerpts, featuring many of Wagner’s best-known melodies and most thrilling orchestral climaxes.
There are the noble trumpet tunes to open his early operatic successes, ‘Rienzi’ and ‘Tannhäuser’ and the turbulent sea-scape to open ‘Der fliegende Holländer’. Both the serene first-act and jubilant third-act Preludes to ‘Lohengrin’ are included as well as highlights from the ‘Ring’ and the preludes to the operas he composed while on a seven-year working holiday from the ‘Ring’, ‘Die Meistersinger’ and ‘Tristan und Isolde’. The anthology concludes with some of the most quietly ecstatic music Wagner ever wrote, for the baptism of Kundry on the Good Friday Meadow in the third act of ‘Parsifal’.
Levine became music director of the Metropolitan Opera in New York aged just 27, having studied as a teenager with Walter Levin, Rudolf Serkin and at the Juilliard School. Under his leadership, the Met orchestra was trained and transformed into a superlative Wagner orchestra: full-bodied, silky and holding power in reserve for Levine to harness at the points of intense crisis and triumph without words in the music dramas. On this reissue, they are prefaced by the 1991 recording made by Levine in Berlin of Wagner’s birthday gift to his wife Cosima, the ‘Siegfried Idyll’ which he based on themes from the ‘Ring’. (© Decca Music Group Limited / Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd.)
1. Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
- Orchestra
- Berliner Philharmoniker
- Primary Artist
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Berliner Philharmoniker
James Levine - Composer
- Richard Wagner
- Conductor
- James Levine
- Balance Engineer
- Gregor Zielinsky
- Editor
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Reinhard Lagemann
Andrew Wedman - Producer
- Christian Gansch
- Recording Producer
- Christian Gansch
- Studio Personnel
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Reinhard Lagemann
Andrew Wedman
Gregor Zielinsky
2. Wagner: Rienzi, WWV 49 - Overture
- Orchestra
- Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
- Primary Artist
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James Levine
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra - Composer
- Richard Wagner
- Lyricist
- Richard Wagner
- Conductor
- James Levine
- Balance Engineer
- Wolfgang Mitlehner
- Executive Producer
- Steven Paul
- Producer
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Steven Paul
Wolfgang Stengel - Recording Producer
- Wolfgang Stengel
- Studio Personnel
- Wolfgang Mitlehner
3. Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70 - Overture - Act I: "Naht euch dem Strande"
- Orchestra
- Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
- Primary Artist
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James Levine
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra - Composer
- Richard Wagner
- Lyricist
- Richard Wagner
- Conductor
- James Levine
- Balance Engineer
- Wolfgang Mitlehner
- Executive Producer
- Steven Paul
- Producer
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Steven Paul
Wolfgang Stengel - Recording Producer
- Wolfgang Stengel
- Studio Personnel
- Wolfgang Mitlehner
4. Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, WWV 96 - Prelude
- Orchestra
- Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
- Primary Artist
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James Levine
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra - Composer
- Richard Wagner
- Lyricist
- Richard Wagner
- Conductor
- James Levine
- Balance Engineer
- Wolfgang Mitlehner
- Executive Producer
- Steven Paul
- Producer
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Steven Paul
Wolfgang Stengel - Recording Producer
- Wolfgang Stengel
- Studio Personnel
- Wolfgang Mitlehner
5. Wagner: Lohengrin, WWV 75 / Act 3 - Prelude To Act III - Bridal Chorus
- Primary Artist
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James Levine
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra - Arranger
- Cunningham Wood
- Orchestra
- Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
- Composer
- Richard Wagner
- Lyricist
- Richard Wagner
- Conductor
- James Levine
- Balance Engineer
- Wolfgang Mitlehner
- Executive Producer
- Steven Paul
- Producer
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Steven Paul
Wolfgang Stengel - Recording Producer
- Wolfgang Stengel
- Studio Personnel
- Wolfgang Mitlehner
6. Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer, WWV 63 - Overture
- Primary Artist
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James Levine
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra - Orchestra
- Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
- Arranger
- Cunningham Wood
- Composer
- Richard Wagner
- Lyricist
- Richard Wagner
- Conductor
- James Levine
- Balance Engineer
- Wolfgang Mitlehner
- Executive Producer
- Steven Paul
- Producer
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Steven Paul
Wolfgang Stengel - Recording Producer
- Wolfgang Stengel
- Studio Personnel
- Wolfgang Mitlehner
7. Wagner: Lohengrin - Prelude To Act I
- Primary Artist
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James Levine
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra - Composer
- Richard Wagner
- Orchestra
- Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
- Lyricist
- Richard Wagner
- Conductor
- James Levine
- Balance Engineer
- Wolfgang Mitlehner
- Editor
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Mark Buecker
Dagmar Birwe - Executive Producer
- John Fisher
- Producer
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Christian Gansch
John Fisher - Recording
- Jobst Eberhardt
- Recording Producer
- Christian Gansch
- Studio Personnel
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Wolfgang Mitlehner
Mark Buecker
Jobst Eberhardt
Dagmar Birwe
8. Wagner: Die Walküre, WWV 86B / Dritter Akt - The Ride Of The Valkyries
- Primary Artist
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James Levine
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra - Composer
- Richard Wagner
- Orchestra
- Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
- Lyricist
- Richard Wagner
- Conductor
- James Levine
- Balance Engineer
- Wolfgang Mitlehner
- Editor
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Mark Buecker
Dagmar Birwe - Executive Producer
- John Fisher
- Producer
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Christian Gansch
John Fisher - Recording
- Jobst Eberhardt
- Recording Producer
- Christian Gansch
- Studio Personnel
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Wolfgang Mitlehner
Mark Buecker
Jobst Eberhardt
Dagmar Birwe
9. Wagner: Siegfried / Zweiter Aufzug - Waldweben
- Primary Artist
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James Levine
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra - Composer
- Richard Wagner
- Orchestra
- Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
- Lyricist
- Richard Wagner
- Conductor
- James Levine
- Balance Engineer
- Wolfgang Mitlehner
- Editor
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Mark Buecker
Dagmar Birwe - Executive Producer
- John Fisher
- Producer
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Christian Gansch
John Fisher - Recording
- Jobst Eberhardt
- Recording Producer
- Christian Gansch
- Studio Personnel
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Wolfgang Mitlehner
Mark Buecker
Jobst Eberhardt
Dagmar Birwe
10. Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D - Concert version / Dritter Aufzug - Siegfried's Funeral March
- Primary Artist
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James Levine
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra - Composer
- Richard Wagner
- Orchestra
- Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
- Lyricist
- Richard Wagner
- Conductor
- James Levine
- Balance Engineer
- Wolfgang Mitlehner
- Editor
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Mark Buecker
Dagmar Birwe - Executive Producer
- John Fisher
- Producer
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Christian Gansch
John Fisher - Recording
- Jobst Eberhardt
- Recording Producer
- Christian Gansch
- Studio Personnel
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Wolfgang Mitlehner
Mark Buecker
Jobst Eberhardt
Dagmar Birwe
11. Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90 - Prelude And Liebestod
- Composer
- Richard Wagner
- Primary Artist
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James Levine
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra - Orchestra
- Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
- Lyricist
- Richard Wagner
- Conductor
- James Levine
- Author
- Richard Wagner
- Balance Engineer
- Wolfgang Mitlehner
- Editor
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Mark Buecker
Dagmar Birwe - Executive Producer
- John Fisher
- Producer
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Christian Gansch
John Fisher - Recording
- Jobst Eberhardt
- Recording Producer
- Christian Gansch
- Studio Personnel
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Dagmar Birwe
Mark Buecker
Wolfgang Mitlehner
Jobst Eberhardt
12. Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg / Act 3 - Prelude
- Primary Artist
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James Levine
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra - Composer
- Richard Wagner
- Orchestra
- Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
- Lyricist
- Richard Wagner
- Conductor
- James Levine
- Balance Engineer
- Wolfgang Mitlehner
- Editor
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Mark Buecker
Dagmar Birwe - Executive Producer
- John Fisher
- Producer
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Christian Gansch
John Fisher - Recording
- Jobst Eberhardt
- Recording Producer
- Christian Gansch
- Studio Personnel
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Wolfgang Mitlehner
Mark Buecker
Jobst Eberhardt
Dagmar Birwe
13. Wagner: Parsifal, WWV 111 / Act 3 - Karfreitagszauber
- Primary Artist
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James Levine
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra - Composer
- Richard Wagner
- Orchestra
- Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
- Lyricist
- Richard Wagner
- Conductor
- James Levine
- Balance Engineer
- Wolfgang Mitlehner
- Editor
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Mark Buecker
Dagmar Birwe - Executive Producer
- John Fisher
- Producer
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Christian Gansch
John Fisher - Recording
- Jobst Eberhardt
- Recording Producer
- Christian Gansch
- Studio Personnel
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Wolfgang Mitlehner
Mark Buecker
Jobst Eberhardt
Dagmar Birwe
Technical Specifications
- Volume
- 1 volume only
- Tracks
- 13 tracks available
- Type
- ALBUM
- Format
- Digital Media
- Duration
- 2 hours, 31 minutes and 11 seconds
- Explicit
- None
- Coverart
- Available and up to 3000x3000 px
- Booklet
- Not available
- Max Quality
CD Quality (Lossless)
16bit / 44.1 kHz
Stereo
- Audio Extension
Lossless: FLAC, M4A, WAV, WV, AIFF
Lossy: AAC, MP3, M4A, MP4, OGA, OGG, OPUS, WMA
- Archive Format
- Available in these formats: ZIP, TAR, RAR
- Lyrics
- No lyrics found
- Synchronized Lyrics
- No synced lyrics found
- Genres
- Symphonic Music, Classical, Conductor
- Label
- Deutsche Grammophon
- Music Distribution Service
- UMG Global
- Country
Germany- Language
- German (Germany)
- Popularity
- Popularity 0/10
- Release Date
- Jun 13, 2019
- Track Preview
- Available
- Delivery Charge
- Free
- Delivery Method
- Digital download link via Email or Personal Dashboard on this site
- UPC
- 28948403646