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Yuri Simonov - Russian Music Society presents: Richard Wagner: Overtures
2008-02-19 15:11:00 Track: Overture: RienziExtract from IODA:Wagner's fame is concentrated on less than a dozen operas, yet his music has influenced virtually every composer who followed him and is still felt today. His work had a great bearing on the development of the orchestra, while it was his strong feelings towards the theatre which led to radical changes in the attitude of singers to the stage. Early leanings were towards the theatre, leading to his writing Leubald, a "vast tragic drama". At the same time he was secretly studying harmony and music, musical studies continuing at Leipzig University, which he entered in 1831.By 1832, as he left his-teens, Wagner had composed some music, notably a Symphony in the homely key of C major. The influence here was Beethoven, who had died only five years earlier, and for whom Wagner had a lifelong passion, convinced that he was Beethoven's natural successor.This first showed itself in Rienzi the first production of which, on 20 October 1842 in Dresden, w...
By: 60 Were Enough
Saturday Video Roundup: the snide of the Valkyries
2008-02-09 16:02:00 Saturday morning cartoons aren’t what they used to be, are they? And I don’t mean that in your typical I-walked-six-miles-to-school-ev-ery-day fashion, either. Once upon a time toons made some very different assumptions about their audience. I mean, how many Saturday morning shows these days play on opera? Let’s begin this morning’s entertainment with a smattering of high culture, as Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd perform Wagner. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EEhHroh2r4w You like opera? Cool, because we got more. How about a rousing performance of Rossini’s The Rabbit if Seville? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-STlXBJJaDIE Of course, it’s never pretty when high culture and low culture cross swords, as we learn when Bugs faces off with opera singer Giovanni Jones. There’s something going on, but you don’t what it is, do you Mr. Jones? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-56vYQRvq47c We hope you’ve been enlightened. Join us next week whe...
Bavaria (part 5)
2007-11-15 04:37:00 Next series of pictures. This time from Linderhof Palace. An update with a little more backgroundinformation will follow later this week.
By: BrownNoisePhotos
Vincenzo Bellini | Richard Wagner : The First Recital (Arturio Basile, Orc
2007-10-11 11:26:00 Opera Track List: 01. Richard Wagner - Tristan und Isold; Liebestod - Dolce e calmo (Act III) 02. Vincenzo Bellini - Norma (Romani) - Casta Diva (Act I) 03. Vincenzo Bellini - Norma (Romani) - Ah! bello a me ritorna (Act I) 04. Vincenzo Bellini - I Puritani (Pepoli) - O, rendetemi la speme (Act II) 05. Vincenzo Bellini - I Puritani (Pepoli) - Qui la voce sua soave (Act II) 06. Vincenzo Bellini
Richard Wagner - Classical: The Will to Power!
2007-06-08 14:53:00 01.Das Rheingold - Einzug der Götter in Walhall.mp4 [12MB] 02.Die Walküre - Walkürenritt.mp4 [10MB] 03.Die Walküre - Wotans Feuerzauber.mp4 [9MB] 04.Waldweben.mp4 [12MB] 05.Götterdämmerung - Morgendämmerung und Siegfrieds Rheinfahrt.mp4 [23MB] 06.Götterdämmerung - Trauermarsch und Finale.mp4 [26MB] 07. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - Vorspiel zum I - Aufzug.mp4 [18MB] 08. Tristan und |
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