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Wagner: Arias from the operas - Fujimura, Meier

Fontec  FOCD-9669

Stereo Hybrid

Classical - Opera

Wagner: Arias from Parsifal, Tristan und Isolde

Mihoko Fujimura, soprano
New Japan Philharmonic
Christoph Ulrich Meier

All

Works (6)

• Richard Wagner: Parsifal, WWV 111 Act I: Prelude
• Richard Wagner: Parsifal, WWV 111 Act II: Ich sah das Kind
• Richard Wagner: Parsifal, WWV 111 Act III: Good Friday Music
• Richard Wagner: Parsifal, WWV 111 Act III: Prelude
• Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90 Act I: Prelude
• Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90 Act III: Liebestod