Deutsche Grammophon continues its successful relationship with the acclaimed Cleveland Orchestra and its chief conductor Franz Welser-Möst with this thrilling all-Wagner album. The release of this album will tie in with Franz Welser-Möst picking up the baton as General Music Director of the Vienna State Opera.

The Clevelanders deliver Lohengrin Prelude (Act I and Act III), The Ride of the Valkyries, the Rienzi and Meistersinger Overture, and the orchestral version of opera’s non plus ultra of love’s power to transfigure, the Liebestod, from Tristan und Isolde

The impact of soprano Measha Brueggergosman’s Wesendonck Lieder, was, said The Plain Dealer “. . . as if she’d penned them herself . . . Tracking Brueggergosman’s every move from fierce declamation down to the faintest whisper, Welser-Möst and crew nudge the singer’s performance into the musical heavens.”