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Composer of the Week: Wagner

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Donald Macleod charts the composer's journey from fervent revolutionary to disenchanted reactionary, and looks at power and corruption in his music dramas. Mignonne Thomas Hampson (baritone), Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
Overture: Rienzi Dresden Staatskapelle, conductor Heinrich Hollreiser
Die Walkure (Act 2, Scene 2, excerpt) Hans Hotter (baritone), Birgit Nilsson (soprano), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Georg Solti
Sachs's final speech (Die Meistersinger) Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Chorus and Orchestra of the German
Opera, Berlin, conductor Eugen Jochum Amfortas 's lament (Parsifal, Act 1)
James Morris (bass), Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, conductor James Levine

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Baritone:
Thomas Hampson
Piano:
Geoffrey Parsons
Conductor:
Heinrich Hollreiser
Baritone:
Hans Hotter
Baritone:
Birgit Nilsson
Conductor:
Georg Solti
Baritone:
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Conductor:
Eugen Jochum
Bass:
James Morris
Conductor:
James Levine
Source: Radio Times

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