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Title: Wagner "die Walküre" prelude & first scene 1
Post by: BachQ on June 17, 2008, 03:58:39 PM
Wagner "die Walküre" prelude in D Minor  & first scene 1
http://www.youtube.com/v/OGCHrztJwQ8

This overture (prelude) is my favorite d minor passage by Wagner.  It's the cat's ass.

Title: Re: Wagner "die Walküre" prelude & first scene 1
Post by: BachQ on June 17, 2008, 03:59:19 PM
Die Walküre "The Walkyrie" "las Valkirias" Richard Wagner ACT 1
gary lakes - siegmund
jessye norman - sieglinde
kurt moll - hunding
hildegard behrens - brünnhilde
james morris - wotan
christa ludwig - fricka
metropolitan Opera Orchestra
james levine
1. Prelude (Vorspiel) (Act One)
2. Wes Herd dies auch sei (Act One, Scene One)
ACT I: As a storm rages, Siegmund the Wälsung, exhausted from pursuit by enemies in the forest, stumbles into an unfamiliar house for shelter. Sieglinde finds the stranger lying by the hearth, and the two feel an immediate attraction.
Title: Re: Wagner "die Walküre" prelude & first scene 1
Post by: Varg on June 17, 2008, 04:56:20 PM
Have you heard that one yet, Dm?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7w17MamPY7A

Title: Re: Wagner "die Walküre" prelude & first scene 1
Post by: BachQ on June 18, 2008, 04:42:59 AM
Quote from: Varg on June 17, 2008, 04:56:20 PM
Have you heard that one yet, Dm?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7w17MamPY7A



Awesome, thanks.

Here it is reconfigured:

part 1http://youtube.com/v/7w17MamPY7A
Title: Re: Wagner "die Walküre" prelude & first scene 1
Post by: ChamberNut on June 18, 2008, 04:44:26 AM
Quote from: Dm on June 17, 2008, 03:58:39 PM
This overture (prelude) is my favorite d minor passage by Wagner.  It's the cat's ass.

Ditto!  Well, from what I've heard from Wagner so far.