Artist
Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner is a composer artist from German. 20 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Composer · German · Best composer albums
- 20
- Releases
- 1944–2010
- Active years
Artist
Richard Wagner is a composer artist from German. 20 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Composer · German · Best composer albums
Most popular
Grandes Compositores de la Música Clásica: Wagner
2010 · 6 tracks
Der Ring des Nibelungen
1998
Tristan und Isolde (Berliner Philharmoniker feat. conductor: Herbert von Karajan)
1988
Wagner Overtures (Royal Promenade Orchestra feat. conductor: Alfred Gehardt)
1987
Preludes & Overtures (Berliner Philharmoniker feat. conductor: Herbert von Karajan)
1987
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Chor und Orchester der Bayerischen Staatsoper feat. conductor: Joseph Keilberth)
1986
Tristan und Isolde (Staatskapelle Dresden feat. conductor: Carlos Kleiber)
1986
The Great Composers: Wagner - The Ring
1986
Wagner (Seattle Symphony, feat. conductor: Gerard Schwarz)
1986
Wesendonk-Lieder / Tristan und Isolde: Vorspiel/Liebestod (soprano: Jessye Norman, London Symphony Orchestra feat. conductor: Sir Colin Davis)
1985
Götterdämmerung (Wiener Staatsopernchor & Philharmoniker feat. conductor: Sir Georg Solti)
1984
Orchestermusik (Orchestre de Paris feat. conductor: Daniel Barenboim)
1984
Parsifal
1984
Highlights from "The Ring" (New York Philharmonic feat. conductor: Zubin Mehta)
1982
Tristan und Isolde
1981
Parsifal (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra feat. conductor: Sir Georg Solti)
1972
Tristan und Isolde (Stein, Nilsson, Vickers)
1971
Tristan und Isolde (Bayreuther Festspiele Orchester feat. conductor: Karl Böhm)
1966
The Flying Dutchman
1962
A Wagner Concert
1944
Wilhelm Richard Wagner (German: Born 22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor primarily known for his operas (or, as some of his later works were later known, "music dramas"). His compositions, particularly those of his later period, are notable for their complex textures, rich harmonies and orchestration, and the elaborate use of leitmotifs—musical phrases associated with individual characters, places, ideas or plot elements. His advances in musical language, such as extreme chromaticism and quickly shifting tonal centres, greatly influenced the development of classical music; his Tristan und Isolde is sometimes described as marking the start of modern music. Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. Initially establishing his reputation as a composer of works in the romantic vein of Weber and Meyerbeer, Wagner transformed operatic thought through his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk ("total work of art"), by which he sought to synthesise the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, with music subsidiary to drama, and which was announced in a series of essays betw…