Reference Recording: Klemperer’s Frisky (No Kidding!) Wagner

David Hurwitz

Artistic Quality:

10

Sound Quality:

7

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Recording Details:

Reference Recording: For This Coupling: This One

WAGNER, RICHARD:
Rienzi Overture; Tannhäuser: Overture and Act 3 Prelude; Lohengrin: Preludes to Acts 1 and 3; Die Meistersinger: Prelude and Dance of the Apprentices; Parsifal: Prelude; Siegfried Idyll; The Flying Dutchman Overture; Tristan und Isolde: Prelude and Liebestod; The Ring: Entry of the Gods into Valhalla; Ride of the Valkyries; Forest Murmurs; Siegfried's Rhine Journey and Funeral Music

Conductor: Klemperer, Otto
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra

Record Label: EMI - 6 78299 2
Medium: CD

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