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Composer of the Week: Wagner

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3/5. A Plaster Saint. Wagner's magnetic personality attracted many champions of his music, but his supporters often found themselves used and betrayed. Presented by Donald Macleod.
Gotterdammerung, Act 2, Scene 4 (excerpt) Birgit Nilsson (soprano),
Vienna State Opera Chorus,
Vienna PO, conductor Georg Solti
In femem Land (Lohengrin 's Narration) (Lohengrin, Act 3)
Placido Domingo (tenor),
Vienna State Opera Chorus,
Vienna PO, conductor Georg Solti
Prologue, Sunrise and Siegfried's Rhine Journey (Gotterdammerung)
Wolfgang Windgassen (tenor), Birgit Nilsson (soprano), Vienna PO, conductor Georg Solti Transformation Music (Parsifal, Act 1) Donald Mclntyre (bass-baritone),
Welsh National Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Reginald Goodall
An Webers Grabe (Hebt an der Sang) Bamberg Symphony Chorus, conductor Karl Anton Rickenbacher
Repeated on Tuesday at 12 midnight

Contributors

Presented By:
Donald MacLeod.
Soprano:
Birgit Nilsson
Conductor:
Georg Solti
Conductor:
Georg Solti
Tenor:
Wolfgang Windgassen
Tenor:
Birgit Nilsson
Conductor:
Georg Solti
Bass-Baritone:
Donald McLntyre
Conductor:
Reginald Goodall
Conductor:
Karl Anton Rickenbacher
Source: Radio Times

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