WAGNER DIE WALKÜRE 1966 London Solti Stereo 1509 5 LP Box Set & Libretto M/VG++
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WAGNER DIE WALKÜRE 1966 London Stereo OSA 1509 5 LP Box Set with Libretto Booklet


Vinyl M, Booklet M, Box VG++, some minor front cover scuffs on top and bottom only (see pictures).  London Box Set FFRR Made in England.  Performed in German language.  Georg Solti conductor,  VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA. 


Lead performers:

  • James King as Siegmung
  • Regine Crespin as Sieglinde
  • Gottlob Frick as Hunding
  • Hans Hotter as Wotan
  • Birgit Nilsson as Brunnhilde
  • Christa Ludwig as Fricka


Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), is the second of the four musical dramas that constitute Richard Wagner’s Der Ring Des Nibelungen, (The Ring of the Nibelung).  It was performed, as a single opera, at the National Theatre Munich on 26 June 1870, and received its first performance as part of the Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festspiehaus on 14 August 1876.  As the Ring cycle was conceived by Wagner in reverse order of performance, Die Walküre was the penultimate of the four texts to be written, although Wagner composed the music in performance-sequence. The text was completed by July 1852, and the music by March 1856. Wagner largely followed the principles related to the form of musical drama which he had set out in his 1851 essay Opera and Drama under which the music would interpret the text emotionally, reflecting the feelings and moods behind the work, using a system of recurring leitmotifs to represent people, ideas and situations rather than the conventional operatic units of arias, ensembles, and choruses. Wagner showed flexibility in the application of these principles here, particularly in Act 3 when the Valkyries engage in frequent ensemble singing.  As with Das Rheingold, Wagner wished to defer any performance of the new work until it could be shown in the context of the completed cycle, but the 1870 Munich premiere was arranged at the insistence of his patron, King Ludwig II of Bavaria. More than the other Ring dramas, Die Walküre has achieved some popularity as a stand-alone work, and continues to be performed independently from its role in the tetralogy.


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