Curved Air presents:

Richard Wagner (1813-`1883) If you do not love his music already, then here is a good place to start. Tonight we listen to old, live excerpts from Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Tristan und Isolde,Die Walküre, and Parsifal. These include performances from Wagner’s own Bayreuth Festspielhaus. Here are two hours of historic lo-fi mono and hi-fi stereo recordings. Wagner is his own musical world.

[Kirsten Flagstad as Brünnhilde, in Wagner’s Die Walküre]

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Playlist:

    Time: February 9 - 9:02:00 pm
  • Hans Knappertsbusch & Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, “Parsifal: Vorspiel”

    from Wagner: Parsifal

    Decca - 1964

  • Time: February 9 - 9:14:00 pm
  • Wilhelm Furtwängler & Staatskapelle Berlin (with Ludwig Suthaus, Erna Schlueter, & Maragarete Klose), “Tristan und Isolde, Act II. "Isolde! Geliebte!" (duet)”

    from Tristan und Isolde: Furtwängler/Berlin 1947

    Andromeda - 2011

    recorded 1947

  • Time: February 9 - 9:44:00 pm
  • Karl Böhm & Bayreuther Festspiele, “Tristan und Isolde, Act III. Prelude and Scene One (excerpt)”

    from Wagner: Tristan und Isolde 1966

    Deutsche Grammophon - 1966

  • Time: February 9 - 10:09:00 pm
  • Karl Bohm & The Saxon State Orchestra, “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Act III, Finale "Morgenlich leuchtend"”

    from Die Meistersinger Act III/Wagner Rarities

    Pearl - 1994

    recorded 1939

  • Time: February 9 - 10:27:00 pm
  • Wilhelm Furtwangler & Orchestra del; Teatro alla Scala, “Wagner - Die Walkure, Act III. (excerpt)”

    from Die Walkure Scala 1950

    Archipel - 2009

  • Time: February 9 - 10:40:00 pm
  • Hans Knappertsbusch & Orchester des Deutschen Opernhauses Berlin, “Parsifal : Act III - Geleiten wir im bergenden Schrein”

    from Wagner: Parsifal Act III (Knappertsbusch 1939)

    Music & Arts - 2000

    recorded 1942

    Curved Air    February 10th, 2020

Posted In: Music Shows