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Wagner: Orchestral Excerpts - Furtwängler

King International  KKC4350

Mono Hybrid

Classical - Orchestral

Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della RAI
Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma della RAI
Wilhelm Furtwängler (conductor)

All

Recording

Analogue recording

Works (6)

• Richard Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer, WWV 63 Overture
• Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D Act III: Siegfrieds Funeral March
• Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D Prologue: Dawn and Siegfrieds Rhein Journey
• Richard Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll in E major, WWV 103
• Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90 Act I: Prelude
• Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90 Act III: Liebestod