JTI Friday Series
Brahms Tragic Overture
Wagner (arr. Henze) Wesendonck Lieder
Bruckner Symphony No. 1 (1877 Linz edition)
Vladimir Jurowski conductor
Anna Larsson contralto
Already in Bruckner’s First Symphony the influence of ‘the master’, Richard Wagner, was making itself felt. In 1863 Bruckner heard Wagner’s opera Tannhäuser in Linz, capturing its desolate yearning in his first movement’s third theme. Two years later Bruckner met Wagner for the first time at a performance of
Tristan und Isolde in Munich; the opera’s romantic soul seeped into Bruckner’s
Adagio, as disarming a vision of love as Wagner’s own
Wesendonck Lieder. As he slipped into hopeless adoration for the German poet Mathilde Wesendonck, Wagner wrote her these songs, moments of heartfelt stillness in a whirlwind musical career.
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Brahms: Tragic Overture, Op. 81Wagner: 5 Gedichte fur eine Frauenstimme, Op. 91, "Wesendonck-Lieder" - No. 1. Der EngelWagner: 5 Gedichte fur eine Frauenstimme, Op. 91, "Wesendonck-Lieder" - No. 2. Stehe still!Wagner: 5 Gedichte fur eine Frauenstimme, Op. 91, "Wesendonck-Lieder" - No. 3. Im TreibhausBruckner: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, WAB 101 (1877 Linz version, ed. L. Nowak) - I. AllegroBruckner: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, WAB 101 (1877 Linz version, ed. L. Nowak) - IV. Finale: Bewegt, feurigYou may also like: 
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