Exile
Donald Macleod explores Wagner's exile in Switzerland, including a period of intense creativity.
Donald Macleod explores Richard Wagner's exile in Switzerland, including a period of intense creativity that coincided with the entrance into his life of his second wife, Cosima. Their rented home was an undistinguished, three story villa near Lucerne, with splendid views of the distant mountains, and Wagner was incredibly happy here, accompanied by his young family, a pair of peacocks and two dogs called Wotan and Fricka.
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Richard Wagner - Lohengrin: Prelude to Acts I & III
Performer: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra,Rafael Kubelik (conductor)
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Richard Wagner - Lohengrin: Prelude to Acts I & III
Performer: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra,Rafael Kubelik (conductor)
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Richard Wagner - Huldigungsmarsch
Performer: London Symphony Orchestra, Marek Janowski (conductor)
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Richard Wagner - Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg: Excerpt from Act III
Performer: Walther: Sandor Konya (tenor), Sachs: Thomas Stewart (bass-baritone), Pogner: Franz Crass (bass-baritone), Eva: Gundula Janowitz (soprano), Bavarian Radio Symphony Choir and Orchestra, Rafael Kubelik (conductor)
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Richard Wagner - Siegfried Idyll
Performer: Northern Sinfonia, Richard Hickox (conductor)
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