Twilight of the Gods: The Essential Wagner Collection
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Brand: WAGNER,R.Composer: Richard [Classical] Wagner
Conductor: Antal Dorati
Conductor: Giuseppe Sinopoli
Conductor: Herbert von Karajan
Conductor: Karl B?hm
Conductor: Otto Gerdes
Conductor: Rafael Kubelik
Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra: Bayreuth Festival Orchestra
Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Orchestra: Dresden Staatskapelle
Orchestra: National Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra: New York Philharmonic
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra of London
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-08-11
Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Die Walk?re (The Valkyrie), opera, WWV 86b: Ride of the Valkyries
- Die G?tterd?mmerung (Twilight of the Gods), opera, WWV 86d: Siegfried's Funeral March
- Lohengrin, opera, WWV 75: Prelude to Act 3
- Der fliegende Holl?nder (The Flying Dutchman), opera, WWV 63: Overture
- Der fliegende Holl?nder (The Flying Dutchman), opera, WWV 63: Sailor's Chorus
- Das Rheingold (The Rhine Gold), opera, WWV 86a: Journey Down to Nibelheim
- Die Meistersinger von N?rnberg, opera, WWV 96: Overture
- Tannh?user, opera, WWV 70: Overture
- Tannh?user, opera, WWV 70: Entry of the Guests
- Tannh?user, opera, WWV 70: Tannh?user's Pilgrimage
- Siegfried, opera, WWV 86c: Act 3 Orchestral Interlude
- Die G?tterd?mmerung (Twilight of the Gods), opera, WWV 86d: Siegfried's Rhine Journey
- Die G?tterd?mmerung (Twilight of the Gods), opera, WWV 86d: Finale
- Das Rheingold (The Rhine Gold), opera, WWV 86a: Enty of the Gods Into Valhalla
- Lohengrin, opera, WWV 75: Prelude to Act 1
- Lohengrin, opera, WWV 75: Bridal Chorus
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Prelude to Act 1
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Good Friday Music
- Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Transformation Scene
- Tannh?user, opera, WWV 70: Venusberg Music
- Tannh?user, opera, WWV 70: Pilgrims' Chorus
- Die Meistersinger von N?rnberg, opera, WWV 96: Prelude to Act 3
- Das Rheingold (The Rhine Gold), opera, WWV 86a: Vision of Valhalla (Scene 2 Introduction)
- Siegfried Idyll, for small orchestra in E major, WWV 103
- Siegfried, opera, WWV 86c: Br?nhilde's Awakening
- Tristan und Isolde, opera, WWV 90: Prelude to Act 3
- Tristan und Isolde, opera, WWV 90: Death of Isolde
Music reviews of Twilight of the Gods: The Essential Wagner Collection
Music Review: It is what it is.
Rating: 5 Stars
I am so tired of hearing people complain about how this isn't true opera and how it is so out of context. This is a greatest hits and hardly what I would consider in the same context as taking pages from great novels and putting them together. Music does not fall to the same boundries of context as do novels. I think of this like i think of a pink floyd greatest hits. in modern terms i would have to say that they do offer complete thoughts in their albums, and any song from the wall would lose something in context to the rest of the piece, but how often does one have time to listen to music for hours on end. i own many of the operas that this album takes from, and the best use that i can get of them is background and mood music, which i of course enjoy and in no way question it's genious, but that doesnt mean i dont like another brick in the wall by itself, humming to the famous chorus. famous because it is the most noteworthy. skipping to your favorite parts, and being introduced to a more broad selection of his music is the idea here. if you like a piece from an opera you were not aware of previously, then you have paid for your purchase. all the the self empowering, endulgent aspects of his work are on display here, and can be enjoyed as great individual pieces of work and i ask the purists if that is not a testament to the composer in and of itself.
Description of Twilight of the Gods: The Essential Wagner Collection
No Description AvailableNo Track Information Available
Media Type: CD
Artist: WAGNER,R.
Title: TWILIGHT OF THE GODS-ESSENTIAL
Street Release Date: 08/11/1998
Genre: CLASSICAL COMPOSERS
If you like your Wagner served up in bleeding chunks or if you're simply in a hurry to hear the tunes, then this compilation is for you. The performances, drawn from the Polygram (mainly Deutsche Grammophon) back catalog, are for the most part authoritative. They feature the likes of Herbert von Karajan, with the Berlin Philharmonic, and Karl B?hm, with the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra (and chorus), in extracts from recordings of complete operas, and conductors Giuseppe Sinopoli, Otto Gerdes, and Antal Dor?ti in some of the more familiar overtures and preludes. Singing, without which it is impossible to get the full flavor of Wagner's work, is skirted whenever possible: this is an unapologetic tribute to Wagner the orchestral genius. At times the salesmanship is a little overblown--the glitzy packaging includes a cover shot of the helicopters from Apocalypse Now--and the sound, some of it from very good originals, seems to have been juiced with a little added digital reverb, resulting in an overall glassiness. The gaps between tracks are minimized, disco style, so there's no dead air, and the whole thing has an Entertainment Tonight feel to it. Were he around, Wagner would have screamed bloody murder, then happily taken his cut of the action. For today's on-the-go listener, this may well be the most practical way to enjoy Wagner's music, but we won't be happy until it motivates at least one newcomer to seek out a recording of a complete opera. Anyone who does that will find out what "apocalypse" really means. --Ted Libbey
General CDs
- Styles > Classical
- Featured Composers, A-Z > ( W ) > Wagner, Richard
- Featured Performers, A-Z > ( B ) > Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
- ( L ) > London Philharmonic Orchestra
- ( N ) > National Philharmonic Orchestra London
- New York Philharmonic Orchestra
- Forms & Genres > Symphonies > Romantic
- Historical Periods > Modern, 20th, & 21st Century
- Symphonies > General
- Opera & Vocal > General
- Historical Periods > Romantic (c.1820-1910)
- Languages > German
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