Wagner: Overtures/ Excerpts (Seattle Symphony/ Gerard Schwarz) (Naxos: 8.572767)
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This selection of some of Wagner's finest orchestral excerpts opens with the 'storm-swept ballad' of
Der fliegende Hollander, the opera which launched his epoch-defining later masterpieces. The entire span of
Der Ring des Nibelungen is represented in this programme, from the luminous rainbow bridge which leads the gods to
Valhalla in Das Rheingold, the urgent drama of
Die Walkure, and the atmospheric repose of the Forest Murmurs in Siegfried, to the tragic depths of Siegfried's Funeral March. This recording has been praised for its
'radiant sensuousness'. (Gramophone)