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Wagner - Le Quatuor Romantique

Ars Produktion  ARS 38 138

Stereo/Multichannel Hybrid

Classical - Chamber

Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer - Overture, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - Am stillen Herd, Parsifal - Charfreitagszauber aus dem Bühnenweihfestspiel, Wesendonck Lieder, Lohengrin - Vorspiel to Act I & Elsa's Ermahnung an Ortrud, Albumblatt in C major, Rienzi - Overture; arr. Thomas Pehlken (Wesendonck Lieder) or arr. Le Quatuor Romantique after Leopold Weninger, Leo Artok, Alfred Pagel or August Wilhelmy

Suzanne McLeod (mezzo)
Le Quatuor Romantique:
Vassili Voronin, (violin, Joseph Gaffino, Paris 1760)
Edward John Semon, (cello, Giuseppe Ornati, Milano 1922)
Joachim Diessner, (harmonium, Debain, Paris ca. 1867)
Markus Märkl, (piano, Gebr. Perzina, Leipzig, ca. 1890)

All

Works (7)

• Richard Wagner: 5 Gedichte für eine Frauenstimme (Wesendonck-Lieder), WWV 91
• Richard Wagner: Albumblatt in C major 'In das Album der Fürstin Metternich', WWV 94
• Richard Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer, WWV 63
• Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, WWV 96
• Richard Wagner: Lohengrin, WWV 75
• Richard Wagner: Parsifal, WWV 111
• Richard Wagner: Rienzi, der Letzte Tribunen, WWV 49

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