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Richard Wagner – Der fliegende Holländer (Karl Böhm, Bayreuth 1971)
Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer was recorded live at the Bayreuth Festival in 1971 under Karl Böhm and released by Deutsche Grammophon in the familiar multi-LP configuration. Sung in German, it documents Bayreuth’s festival forces at full intensity in one of Wagner’s most tightly coiled and elemental works, a “sea opera” in which storm, oath, and…
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Richard Wagner – Tristan und Isolde (Karl Böhm, Bayreuth 1966)
This post presents Tristan und Isolde as captured live at the Bayreuth Festival in the summer of 1966 and issued on Deutsche Grammophon in the classic multi-LP configuration. The present edition is sourced from the original vinyl plates and has undergone a restrained digital remastering by Simon Gros, undertaken not to modernize the sound but…
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‘The Wagner Operas’ by Ernest Newman
The distinctive contribution of Ernest Newman’s The Wagner Operas lies in the rigor with which it fuses dramaturgical analysis, source-criticism, and close listening into a single explanatory instrument that can carry the weight of Wagner’s most demanding works. Newman’s stake is precise: to make audible, in disciplined prose, the nexus through which text, mythic source,…
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Stories from Wagner
The distinctive contribution of Stories from Wagner lies in its careful construction of a narrative hinge between mythic material and the nineteenth-century project of the music drama. It composes a lucid, story-forward surface that remains legible to new readers while quietly staging a set of methodical choices about origin, authority, and transmission—how oral legends, medieval…
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Wagner and Philosophy
Wagner and Philosophy is Bryan Magee’s sustained attempt to reconstruct, with maximal conceptual clarity and textual sobriety, the conditions under which Wagner’s artistic self-understanding and compositional practice took shape in conversation with the philosophical movements of his age. Its distinctive contribution lies in entwining an exposition of Wagner’s major music dramas with a carefully delimited…
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‘Richard Wagner’ by Francis Hueffer
Hueffer’s Richard Wagner occupies the precise historical interval in which the composer’s career was still a moving target and yet sufficiently formed to admit a synoptic judgment. The book’s distinctive contribution is twofold: it articulates a continuous line from the biographical restlessness of a “man of action” to the evolving grammar of the modern music-drama,…
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Minna Wagner: A Life, with Richard Wagner
Minna Wagner: A Life, with Richard Wagner by Professor Dr. Eva Rieger, translated by Chris Walton, is a monumental biography that reconfigures our understanding of Richard Wagner’s first wife, Minna Planer. Far from being the peripheral figure often portrayed in traditional Wagnerian scholarship, Minna was a pivotal influence in Wagner’s creative and personal life. This…
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Richard Wagner: A Life in Music
Richard Wagner: A Life in Music by Martin Geck, masterfully translated by Stewart Spencer, presents the analysis of one of music history’s most enigmatic and influential figures. This comprehensive biography transcends the conventional narrative, engaging the multifaceted persona of Richard Wagner—composer, conductor, librettist, theater director, and essayist. Geck’s work doesn’t just recount Wagner’s life events…
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