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from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1868) The London Philharmonic Orchestra has long Vladimir Jurowski was appointed the 01 10:51 Prelude established a high reputation for its versatility Orchestra’s Principal Guest Conductor in and artistic excellence. These are evident from March 2003. The London Philharmonic from Rienzi (1842) its performances in the concert hall and opera Orchestra has been resident symphony 02 13:07 Overture Orchestral Excerpts from house, its many award-winning recordings, orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall since 1992 its trail-blazing international tours and its and there it presents its main series of concerts from Der Ring des Nibelungen Wagner Operas pioneering education work. Kurt Masur has between September and May each year. Götterdämmerung (1876) been the Orchestra’s Principal Conductor In summer, the Orchestra moves to Sussex 03 11:59 Dawn and Siegfried’s Journey to the Rhine Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, since September 2000, extending the line where it has been the resident symphony 04 10:09 Siegfried’s Funeral Music Rienzi, Götterdämmerung, of distinguished conductors who have held orchestra at Glyndebourne Festival Opera for positions with the Orchestra since its over 40 years. The Orchestra also performs Die Walküre (1870) Die Walküre, Tannhäuser foundation in 1932 by Sir Thomas Beecham. at venues around the UK and has made 05 5:08 The Ride of the Valkyries (concert version) These have included Sir Adrian Boult, Sir John numerous tours to America, Europe and Japan, Pritchard, Bernard Haitink, Sir Georg Solti, and visited India, Hong Kong, China, South 25:38 from Tannhäuser (1845) Klaus Tennstedt conductor Klaus Tennstedt and Franz Welser-Möst. Korea, Australia and South Africa. 06 11:41 Overture london philharmonic orchestra 07 13:57 Venusberg Music

Klaus Tennstedt conductor London Philharmonic Orchestra Heinrich Hochschild guest leader

The London Philharmonic Orchestra with Klaus Tennstedt LPO – 0003 orchestral Excerpts from Wagner operas Klaus Tennstedt conductor

Prelude: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Dawn and Siegfried’s Journey to the The Ride of the Valkyries: Die Walküre aspires to marry the saintly Elisabeth. Love Born in East Germany, Klaus Tennstedt studied was a major event, none more so than this Die Meistersinger is Wagner’s first and last Rhine; Siegfried’s Funeral March: The nine Valkyries are the daughters of the is inevitably doomed, the end result being at the Leipzig Conservatory and conducted concert of Wagner’s music given at the BBC attempt at comedy. Its prelude depicts life in Götterdämmerung god Wotan and Erda, the Earth Goddess. They Elisabeth’s death and his own tragic downfall. throughout his native land but it was not until Proms in the Royal Albert Hall on 20 August Germany’s richest and most historic town. After passing through the magic fire that are sent to look for heroes who have died in he moved to the West in 1971 that he started 1992. In reviewing this concert in the Sunday The Mastersingers are represented by two the god Wotan has commanded to protect battle and bring them back to life to protect The Venusberg Music, composed (but not to achieve world recognition. He made his Times, Hugh Canning recalls ‘Music-making themes in the style of marches. The other his daughter Brünnhilde asleep on a high Valhalla, Wotan’s palace. Their appearance performed) to follow the overture to the American debut with the Boston Symphony on an altogether more exalted level filled an main theme in the opera portrays the lovers’ rock, the hero Siegfried finds her and for the at the beginning of the third act of Die Paris production of 1861, follows. In a Orchestra in 1974 and his debut with the Albert Hall to the rafters on Thursday night. ideals of love and art. But in its essence, Die first time falls in love. But his passion for Walküre is as raucous as their task is grim. rocky grotto assorted nymphs, satyrs and London Philharmonic Orchestra in 1977. Tennstedt is one of the few interpreters Meistersinger contains not one but two love Brünnhilde soon gives way to his longing for These eight tough women (Brünnhilde is fauns take part in a wild dance which He had an instant rapport with the London working today who even begins to convey stories: the first is the love of the nobleman new adventure. As a token of his love, he the ninth but is occupied with other matters grows into a frenzied orgy. Eventually the Philharmonic Orchestra which resulted in the majesty of Wagner’s orchestral writing. Walther von Stolzing for Eva Pogner, the leaves his ring with her and sets off down at this stage) are gathering at the summit Three Graces arrive to calm things down return invitations and his appointment as the The Prommers gave Tennstedt a hero’s daughter of the richest man in town, and the the Rhine. He plays his horn in a defiant of a rocky mountain before riding off to and the music gradually dies away. Orchestra’s Principal Conductor and Music welcome and he rewarded them with an second of David, Hans Sachs’s apprentice, for and exuberant mood, but what he does not select heroes from the piles of the dead. Director in 1983. This developed into a unique encore, one of the most thrilling accounts Magdalena, Eva’s servant and companion. yet know is that he is about to reach the Eduardo Benarroch and remarkable relationship until illness I can recall of The Ride of the Valkyries.’ When heard in the opera house the prelude kingdom of the Gibichungs, where envy and Overture and Venusberg Music: Tannhäuser finally brought it to a premature end some leads straight into the first scene in the greed will eventually bring about his death. 116 years before this recording, Tannhäuser ten years later. Klaus Tennstedt died in 1998. church of St Katherine, where Walther and received its London première at Covent Garden Eva speak to each other for the first time. Hagen, the Nibelung Alberich’s son, has been in an Italian version. Its overture has the Tennstedt was particularly renowned for conceived for one purpose only: to bring rare honour of being the first Wagner music his performances of the German repertoire, Overture: Rienzi about the downfall of the Gods and in so heard in London to the almost unanimous particularly Mahler whose symphonies he This overture to Wagner’s early opera, doing regain his father’s ring. Brünnhilde disapproval of the critics of the time. Wagner conducted regularly at the Royal Festival Hall Rienzi, has long been a concert hall favourite has inadvertently revealed to him that himself conducted it in 1855 at a concert and on disc for EMI to huge public acclaim. although the opera is seldom revived for the Siegfried’s weak point is his back. This is attended by Queen Victoria during his three His energy, musicianship and emotional stage. Rienzi is a man who is corrupted by where, during a hunt, Hagen plunges his month stay in London at the invitation involvement combined with a rare humility power and meets his death at the hands of spear and kills him. There follows the most of the Philharmonic Society. The overture endeared him to audiences and musicians his followers. The overture includes various grandiose funeral music ever written, turning takes us through the extremes of the life alike. Latterly every concert appearance motifs from the opera such as Rienzi’s prayer Siegfried’s death into a celebration of his life. of the knight, Tannhäuser, who enjoys the and the trumpet call - the sound which sinful pagan court of the goddess Venus but heralds the uprising taking Rienzi to power. Holt Richard orchestral Excerpts from Wagner operas Klaus Tennstedt conductor

Prelude: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Dawn and Siegfried’s Journey to the The Ride of the Valkyries: Die Walküre aspires to marry the saintly Elisabeth. Love Born in East Germany, Klaus Tennstedt studied was a major event, none more so than this Die Meistersinger is Wagner’s first and last Rhine; Siegfried’s Funeral March: The nine Valkyries are the daughters of the is inevitably doomed, the end result being at the Leipzig Conservatory and conducted concert of Wagner’s music given at the BBC attempt at comedy. Its prelude depicts life in Götterdämmerung god Wotan and Erda, the Earth Goddess. They Elisabeth’s death and his own tragic downfall. throughout his native land but it was not until Proms in the Royal Albert Hall on 20 August Germany’s richest and most historic town. After passing through the magic fire that are sent to look for heroes who have died in he moved to the West in 1971 that he started 1992. In reviewing this concert in the Sunday The Mastersingers are represented by two the god Wotan has commanded to protect battle and bring them back to life to protect The Venusberg Music, composed (but not to achieve world recognition. He made his Times, Hugh Canning recalls ‘Music-making themes in the style of marches. The other his daughter Brünnhilde asleep on a high Valhalla, Wotan’s palace. Their appearance performed) to follow the overture to the American debut with the Boston Symphony on an altogether more exalted level filled an main theme in the opera portrays the lovers’ rock, the hero Siegfried finds her and for the at the beginning of the third act of Die Paris production of 1861, follows. In a Orchestra in 1974 and his debut with the Albert Hall to the rafters on Thursday night. ideals of love and art. But in its essence, Die first time falls in love. But his passion for Walküre is as raucous as their task is grim. rocky grotto assorted nymphs, satyrs and London Philharmonic Orchestra in 1977. Tennstedt is one of the few interpreters Meistersinger contains not one but two love Brünnhilde soon gives way to his longing for These eight tough women (Brünnhilde is fauns take part in a wild dance which He had an instant rapport with the London working today who even begins to convey stories: the first is the love of the nobleman new adventure. As a token of his love, he the ninth but is occupied with other matters grows into a frenzied orgy. Eventually the Philharmonic Orchestra which resulted in the majesty of Wagner’s orchestral writing. Walther von Stolzing for Eva Pogner, the leaves his ring with her and sets off down at this stage) are gathering at the summit Three Graces arrive to calm things down return invitations and his appointment as the The Prommers gave Tennstedt a hero’s daughter of the richest man in town, and the the Rhine. He plays his horn in a defiant of a rocky mountain before riding off to and the music gradually dies away. Orchestra’s Principal Conductor and Music welcome and he rewarded them with an second of David, Hans Sachs’s apprentice, for and exuberant mood, but what he does not select heroes from the piles of the dead. Director in 1983. This developed into a unique encore, one of the most thrilling accounts Magdalena, Eva’s servant and companion. yet know is that he is about to reach the Eduardo Benarroch and remarkable relationship until illness I can recall of The Ride of the Valkyries.’ When heard in the opera house the prelude kingdom of the Gibichungs, where envy and Overture and Venusberg Music: Tannhäuser finally brought it to a premature end some leads straight into the first scene in the greed will eventually bring about his death. 116 years before this recording, Tannhäuser ten years later. Klaus Tennstedt died in 1998. church of St Katherine, where Walther and received its London première at Covent Garden Eva speak to each other for the first time. Hagen, the Nibelung Alberich’s son, has been in an Italian version. Its overture has the Tennstedt was particularly renowned for conceived for one purpose only: to bring rare honour of being the first Wagner music his performances of the German repertoire, Overture: Rienzi about the downfall of the Gods and in so heard in London to the almost unanimous particularly Mahler whose symphonies he This overture to Wagner’s early opera, doing regain his father’s ring. Brünnhilde disapproval of the critics of the time. Wagner conducted regularly at the Royal Festival Hall Rienzi, has long been a concert hall favourite has inadvertently revealed to him that himself conducted it in 1855 at a concert and on disc for EMI to huge public acclaim. although the opera is seldom revived for the Siegfried’s weak point is his back. This is attended by Queen Victoria during his three His energy, musicianship and emotional stage. Rienzi is a man who is corrupted by where, during a hunt, Hagen plunges his month stay in London at the invitation involvement combined with a rare humility power and meets his death at the hands of spear and kills him. There follows the most of the Philharmonic Society. The overture endeared him to audiences and musicians his followers. The overture includes various grandiose funeral music ever written, turning takes us through the extremes of the life alike. Latterly every concert appearance motifs from the opera such as Rienzi’s prayer Siegfried’s death into a celebration of his life. of the knight, Tannhäuser, who enjoys the and the trumpet call - the sound which sinful pagan court of the goddess Venus but heralds the uprising taking Rienzi to power. Holt Richard LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Orchestral Excerpts from Wagner Operas

Klaus Tennstedt conductor London Philharmonic Orchestra Heinrich Hochschild guest leader

The London Philharmonic Orchestra with Klaus Tennstedt LPO – 0003 LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Orchestral Excerpts from Wagner Operas

Klaus Tennstedt conductor London Philharmonic Orchestra Heinrich Hochschild guest leader

The London Philharmonic Orchestra with Klaus Tennstedt LPO – 0003