Wagner: Preludes and Overtures

St. Louis Symphony Orchestra;
Semkow, Jerzy

VOX-NX-3044CD

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.

The Elite Recordings for Vox by legendary producers Marc Aubort and Joanna Nickrenz are considered by audiophiles to be amongst the finest sounding examples of orchestral recordings.

Recorded in 1977 and released the following year on a quadraphonic LP pressings QTV-34719. It also appeared in 1993 as part of a 2-disc VoxBox edition CDX-5104.

Works:

•Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg-Vorspiel zum 1. Akt
•Richard Wagner: Walkürenritt aus Die Walküre
•Richard Wagner: Lohengrin-Vorspiele zum 1. & 3. Akt
•Richard Wagner: Karfreitagszauber aus Parsifal
•Richard Wagner: Rienzi-Ouvertüre

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Vox

02-07-2024

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