Wagner's greatest hits.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.

Contributor:

Szell, George, 1897-1970, conductor.

Ormandy, Eugene, 1899-1985, conductor.

Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990, conductor.

Condie, Richard (Richard P.), conductor.

Cleveland Orchestra, performer.

Philadelphia Orchestra, performer.

New York Philharmonic, performer.

Mormon Tabernacle Choir, performer.

Series:

Masterworks

Standardized Title:

Operas. Selections

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Operas--Excerpts.

Operas.

Orchestral music.

Overtures.

Marches (Orchestra).

Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with orchestra.

Genre:

Orchestral music.

Sound recordings.

Excerpts.

Physical Description:

1 audio disc : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereo ; 12 in.

12 in.

Contained In:

Eugene Ormandy Commercial Sound Recordings. Item 415

Place of Publication:

[New York, N.Y.] : Columbia, p1969.

System Details:

analog

33 1/3 rpm

microgroove

stereo

Contents:

Prelude to Die Meistersinger (9:30)

"Bridal chorus" from Lohengrin (5:35)

"The ride of the Valkyries" from Die Walküre (4:45)

Prelude to Act III, Lohengrin (3:25)

"Liebestod" from Tristan and Isolde (5:47)

"Festmarsch" from Tannhäuser (6:25)

"Pilgrims' chorus" from Tannhäuser (3:20)

Participant:

(1st work) Cleveland Orchestra ; George Szell, conductor. (2nd and 7th works) Mormon Tabernacle Choir ; Richard P. Condie, director. (3rd and 6th works) New York Philharmonic ; Leonard Bernstein, conductor. (2nd, 4th, 5th and 7th works) Philadelphia Orchestra ; Eugene Ormandy, conductor.

Notes:

Choruses sung in German.

Program notes on container.

Contains:

Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Vorspiel

Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Lohengrin. Selections

Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Ring des Nibelungen. Walküre. Walkürenritt

Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Tristan und Isolde. Liebestod

Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Tannhäuser. Selections

Publisher Number:

MS 7511 Columbia

Access Restriction:

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