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Wagner: Orchestral Excerpts - Tennstedt

Tower Records Definition Serie  TDSA10001 (2 discs)

Stereo Hybrid

Classical - Orchestral

Berliner Philharmoniker
Klaus Tennstedt (conductor)

All

Recording

PCM recording

Works (11)

• Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold, WWV 86A Scene IV: Entry of the Gods into Valhalla
• Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, WWV 96 Act I: Prelude
• Richard Wagner: Die Walküre, WWV 86B Act III: Magic Fire Music
• Richard Wagner: Die Walküre, WWV 86B Act III: Prelude 'Ride of the Valkyries'
• Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D Act III: Siegfrieds Funeral March
• Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D Prologue: Dawn and Siegfrieds Rhein Journey
• Richard Wagner: Lohengrin, WWV 75 Act I: Prelude
• Richard Wagner: Lohengrin, WWV 75 Act III: Prelude
• Richard Wagner: Rienzi, WWV 49 Overture
• Richard Wagner: Siegfried, WWV 86C Act II: Forest Murmurs
• Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70 Overture (Dresden version)