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The whole of Act I and the last scene of Act III of Die Walküre, and snippets from the other operas recorded late in 1944 show what the great German Wagner tradition was like. Michael Tanner

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Michael Tanner

Published: January 20, 2012 at 4:23 pm

COMPOSERS: Wagner
LABELS: Profil Hanssler
WORKS: Excerpts from Die Walküre, Tannhäuser, Der fliegende Holländer, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Siegfried & Götterdämmerung
PERFORMER: Soloists; cond. Elmendorff, Striegler
CATALOGUE NO: DCD PH 07048 (live 1944)

The whole of Act I and the last scene of Act III of Die Walküre, and snippets from the other operas recorded late in 1944 show what the great German Wagner tradition was like. Michael Tanner

Michael Tanner

Journalist and Critic, BBC Music Magazine

Michael Tanner is a critic for BBC Music Magazine and the opera critic of The Spectator. He is now a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, having lectured in the Philosophy faculty at the University of Cambridge for 36 years. In 2010, he released The Faber Pocket Guide to Wagner.

Wagner – Excerptsq

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