“Wagner Anniversary Concert” from the 2013 Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts

Tonight at 7:00 on “The Evening Concert” on WILL, FM-90.9 it’s the “Wagner Anniversary Concert” from the Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts. Christian Thielemann conducts the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra in an all Wagner program recorded in the Bayreuth Festspeilhaus on the exact 200th birthday of the composer May 22nd 2013. The program includes music from “Tristan and Isolde”, “Gotterdammerung” and other music dramas. That’s the “Wagner Anniversary Concert” tonight at 7:00 on the Evening Concert on WILL, FM-90.9.

Monday July 28: Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts (DWF): (#13-05)

WAGNER BIRTHDAY CONCERT

Recorded by Radio Bavaria (BR) in the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on May 22, 2013 (the exact 200th anniversary of the composer's birth)

Bayreuth Festival Orchestra; Christian Thielemann, conductor; Eva-Maria-Westbroek, soprano; Johan Botha, tenor; Kwangchul Youn, bass
Richard Wagner (1813-1883): Act 1 from The Valkyrie
Wagner Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde
Wagner Siegfried's Rhine Journey and Funeral March from Twilight of the Gods
Wagner Prelude from The Mastersingers of Nuremberg