Wagner: Overtures and Preludes

Listen on Presto Music. Free thirty day trial. Find out more.

an excellent programme in its own right, hard to better, even though, surprisingly, Jarvi in his long career has conducted little or no theatrical Wagner. He tends to favour measured tempos,... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 2nd Sep 2013
Catalogue No: CHSA5126
Label: Chandos
Length: 79 minutes

This item is currently out of stock at the UK distributor. You may order it now but please be aware that it may be six weeks or more before it can be despatched.

This release includes a digital booklet

Chandos - Downloads at MP3 Prices

Special offer ends: 22/05/2024

Wagner: Die Feen, WWV 32: Overture

Work length10:53

$3.00

$3.85

$5.25

Neeme Järvi, Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Wagner: Columbus, WWV 37: Overture

Work length8:08

$2.00

$2.60

$3.50

Neeme Järvi, Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Wagner: Das Liebesverbot Overture

Work length8:17

$2.00

$2.60

$3.50

Neeme Järvi, Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Wagner: Rienzi Overture

Work length11:23

$3.00

$3.85

$5.25

Neeme Järvi, Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Wagner: Faust Overture, WWV59

Work length11:10

$3.00

$3.85

$5.25

Neeme Järvi, Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer: Overture

Work length11:07

$3.00

$3.85

$5.25

Neeme Järvi, Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Wagner: Lohengrin, WWV 75, Act III: Prelude

Work length3:10

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Neeme Järvi, Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde: Prelude to Act 1

Work length6:49

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Neeme Järvi, Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, WWV 96: Prelude

Work length8:58

$1.00

$1.30

$3.50

Neeme Järvi, Royal Scottish National Orchestra

About
Reviews
Explore

About

On this disc we bring together some of the highlights from Neeme Järvi’s five-volume Wagner series with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. As an added bonus, we have included the Overture to Der fliegende Holländer, a piece not before released.

Among Wagner’s most revolutionary scores is the tragic-romantic opera Tristan und Isolde. The key themes of anticipation, longing, rapture, separation, hope, death, and transfiguration are suggested already in the famous Prelude to the opera, recorded here.

The Overture to Rienzi, Wagner’s third completed opera (1838 – 40), incorporates the melody of Rienzi’s prayer at the start of Act V, which since became the opera’s best-known aria, and ends with a dazzling military march. Die Feen was the composer’s first great romantic, although less well-known, opera. The overall style of the work, based on La donna serpente by Carlo Gozzi, owes its essentials to Beethoven, Marschner, and Weber.

Wagner based Das Liebesverbot on Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure. It is perhaps the most Mediterranean-sounding of his operas, something especially apparent in the brimming vitality of the Overture with its sparkling contributions of castanets, triangle, and tambourine. ‘Rollicking good fun’ wrote American Record Guide of this piece.

Also enriching the disc are the Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, the Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin, and the seldom performed and recorded, Weber-inspired Overture which Wagner wrote in 1835 for the play Columbus by Theodor Apel. Eine Faust-Ouvertüre followed in 1840. Taking its inspiration from Goethe’s famous play, this work, together with Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, became the main example of nineteenth-century programme music.

Reviews

December 2013

an excellent programme in its own right, hard to better, even though, surprisingly, Jarvi in his long career has conducted little or no theatrical Wagner. He tends to favour measured tempos, but these are illuminated by the fine playing of the RNSO, gleaming richly in the spacious grandeur of SACD sound.

November 2013

Järvi is a master of this repertoire and he continually conjures splendid playing from his Scottish orchestra.

1st September 2013

Jarvi’s interpretations are wonderfully supple.

Offer,Wagner: Overtures and Preludes

SACD

Downloads

Contents

Download queue