St. Louis Symphony Orchestra & Jerzy Semkow - Wagner: Preludes and Overtures (Lohengrin; Parsifal; Die Walküre; Rienzi; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) (Remastered) (1978/2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 255 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 127 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:52:15
Classical | Label: Vox Records
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 255 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 127 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:52:15
Classical | Label: Vox Records
This sequence of Wagner’s preludes and overtures ranges across his compositional output, from Rienzi, his first distinctive opera, through the stirring Prelude to Act I of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and the Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walküre, to his last work, Parsifal from which we hear the Good Friday Music. They are performed by the St. Louis Symphony under the Polish conductor Jerzy Semkow who was the orchestra’s music director from 1975 to 1979.