生誕200年、ということで今週はワーグナーの大特集。
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Richard Wagner: Transformations and Transfigurations
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01shy5k
Composer of the Week: Wagner and His World
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01sl6zx
Donald Macleod explores the connections and relationships that helped establish Wagner as the most revolutionary musical thinker of the 19th century
Wagner and Beethoven
Mon 20 May 2013
12:00
BBC Radio 3
1/5 Donald Macleod explores how Beethoven's music heavily influenced Wagner.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01shybm
As BBC Radio 3 celebrates the 200th anniversary of Wagner's birth, Composer Of The Week explores the connections and relationships that helped establish him as the most revolutionary musical thinker of the 19th century. Donald Macleod investigates the composers who exerted the most profound influence on Wagner, including Beethoven, Meyerbeer, Palestrina and Liszt, and those he left an indelible mark upon, including Strauss, Bruckner and Wolf.
Works by these figures, who shaped Wagner's musical world, are threaded through a week of Wagner's own music, spanning his entire career - and if you were expecting to hear solely opera, think again! Alongside highlights from his famous masterpieces for the stage, including Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Götterdämmerung, Die Meistersinger, Lohengrin and Parsifal, there's a rare opportunity to discover three of the composer's very few compositions for piano, occasional works for wind band and male voice choir, and even Wagner's own youthful arrangement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
We will also be shining a light on Wagner's lesser known, early operas, created under the spell of such diverse influences as the German Romantic operatic tradition of Weber, the "bel canto" style of singing of Bellini, and French Grand Opera of the 1830s. Donald Macleod presents excerpts from Wagner's earliest opera Die Feen, his sunny, Italian-esque Das Liebesverbot, and the 'black sheep' of Wagner's output: his vast operatic spectacular Rienzi - which he later virtually disowned.
Selected recordings showcase some of the finest Wagner performances put to disc - with historic interpretations by great Wagnerians such as Wolfgang Sawallisch, Georg Solti, Rudolf Kempe, James Levine and Daniel Barenboim.
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Donald Macleod begins the week by exploring possibly the greatest single influence on Wagner's work, the music of Ludwig van Beethoven. Beethoven's presence loomed large in Wagner's mind from his very earliest works, including a highly Beethovenian piano sonata, to the apotheosis of his Ring Cycle: Brünnhilde's immolation at the climax of Götterdammerung.
Listeners have a very rare opportunity to hear an excerpt from Wagner's own youthful arrangement of Beethoven's Choral Symphony, and Donald Macleod explains the colossal influence Beethoven's synthesis of music and poetry would have on Wagner's own theories of music-drama. We'll also hear Wagner's only substantial mature piano work, a one-movement piano sonata dedicated to his mistress Mathilde Wesendonck.
Music Played
Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
00:01
Richard Wagner
Piano Sonata in A major, Op 4 (Grosse Sonate)- 1. Allegro con moto
Performer: Pier Paolo Vincenzi (piano),
Brilliant 94450, 2
00:13
Richard Wagner
Das Rheingold - Descent into the Nibelheim (end of Scene 2, opening Scene 3)
Performer: John Tomlinson (Wotan), Performer: Bodo Brinkmann (Donner), Performer: Kurt Schreibmeyer (Froh), Performer: Graham Clark (Loge), Performer: Linda Finnie (Fricka), Performer:Günter von Kanne (Alberich), Performer:Choir and Orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival, Conductor: Daniel Barenboim
Teldec 4509 911852, 17
00:28
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 9 (choral) - IV. finale
Performer: Noriko Ogawa (piano), Performer: Bach Collegium Japan, Performer: Masaaki Suzuki
BIS CD950, 4
00:37
Richard Wagner
Gotterdammerung - Brunnhilde Immolation Scene (Act III)
Performer:Brigit Nilsson (Brünnhilde), Performer: Gottlob Frick (Hagen), Performer: Vienna Philharmonic, Performer: Georg Solti
Decca 455 569 2, 18
00:47
Richard Wagner
Piano Sonata in A flat (fur das Album von Frau Mathilde Wesendonck)
Performer: Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano),
Deutsche Grammophon 477 943 9, 2
Weber and Bellini
Tue 21 May 2013
12:00
BBC Radio 3
2/5 Donald Macleod explores Wagner's early love for the operas of Weber and Bellini.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01shyks
As Donald Macleod continues his exploration of the composers who influenced Wagner's life and music, he looks at his earliest two complete operas, Die Feen and Das Liebesverbot, each written in a very different musical style.
In Die Feen, listeners can hear clearly the early influence of the great hero of early 19th century German Romantic opera, Carl Maria von Weber, and the programme also features two short occasional works by Wagner, written to commemorate his great forebear and compatriot.
But it's in Das Liebesverbot that those unfamiliar with Wagner's early work may be in for a shock! Sunny, witty, and bursting with the warm lyricism of the Mediterranean, the opera is full of the influence of Italian opera, particularly the compositions of Vincenzo Bellini, and sounds almost totally unlike anything else in Wagner's output. We hear it juxtaposed with one of Bellini's own beautifully-wrought "bel canto" arias.
Music Played
Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
00:00
Richard Wagner
Polonaise for Piano Four Hands in D Major, Op.2, WWV 23b (1831-2)
Performers: Elizabeth Buccheri, Richard Boldrey (piano duet)
CEDILLE 7002, Track 7
00:05
Richard Wagner
Trauersinfonie für Blaserorchester nach Motiven aus “Euryanthe” von Carl Maria von Weber, WWV73 (1844)
Performer: Members of the Dresden Philharmonic Conductor: Michel Plasson
EMI CDC5563582, Track 5
00:14
Richard Wagner
Die Feen [Opening of Act II] (1833)Weh uns, weh!
Performer: Brenda Rae (Lora) Performer: Simon Bode (Ein Bote) Performer: Chorus and Orchestra of the Frankfurt Opera House Conductor: Sebastian Weigle
OEHMS 940, Disc 2, Tracks 1-2
00:27
Richard Wagner
Das Liebesverbot: Overture (1834-6)
Performer: BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Edward Downes
PONTO MITRADITE 1055, Disc 1, Track 1
00:37
Vincenzo Bellini
I Capuletti e I Montecchi [Act I, excerpt] (1831)Se Romeo T’Uccise Un Figlio,
Performer: Agnes Baltsa (Romeo), Performer: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House , Conductor: Riccardo Muti,
EMI CDC 40637, CD 1 T 9
00:41
Richard Wagner
Das Liebesverbot [Act I excerpt] (1834-6)
Performer: April Cantelo (Isabella), Performer: Raymond Herincx (Friedrich) Performer: BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Edward Downes
PONTO MITRADITE 1055 –, Disc 1, Track 16
00:54
Richard Wagner
An Webers Grabe: Heb an den Sang, WWV72 (1844)
Performer: Male Voices of the Vienna Chamber Choir Performer: Michel Plasson
EMI CDC5563582, Track 3
Wagner, Meyerbeer and Palestrina
Wed 22 May 2013
12:00
BBC Radio 3
3/5 Donald Macleod explores how Wagner first cherished, then rejected, Meyerbeer's influence.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01shykx
Today's episode finds Wagner struggling to make ends meet as a young man in Paris but falling under the spell of French Grand Opera, in particular, the influence of Giacomo Meyerbeer. Wagner would later violently reject Meyerbeer's work in his hate-filled, anti-Semitic tract "Jewishness in Music". Yet back in the late 1830s, he had fallen in love with the vast theatrical sweep of Meyerbeer's work, channelling it into his own opera Rienzi.
We'll hear how Meyerbeer's big hits of the time, "Robert Le Diable" and "Les Huguenots", cast a shadow on Rienzi. Finally, as an antidote to all the melodrama of Grand Opera, Donald Macleod introduces a surprising influence on Wagner's work: the music of Palestrina, whom Wagner programmed and conducted in the 1840s, and whose Stabat Mater strongly influenced the shimmering textures of Lohengrin.
Music Played
Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
00:00
Richard Wagner
Trois Melodies: Mignonne
performer: Thomas Hampson (baritone), performer: Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
EMI CDC 555047 2, 6
00:05
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Robert le Diable (Act III excerpt) - Valse Infernale: "Encore Un de Gagne"
performer: Samuel Ramey (bass), performer: Choir and Orchestra of Munich Radio, performer: Jacques Delacote,
EMI CDC 749582, 7
00:13
Richard Wagner
Rienze (Act I excerpt) - Erstehe, hohe Roma, neu!
performer: Siv Wennberg (Rienzi), performer: Staatskapelle Dresden, performer: Heinrich Hollreiser,
EMI 567131 2, 10
00:25
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Les Huguenots (end of Act II)- Et maintenant Je dois offrir
performer: Joan Sutherland (Marguerite De Valois), performer: Martina Arroyo (Valentine), performer: Anastasios Vrenios (Raoul de Nangis), performer: Nicola Ghuiselev (Marcel), performer: Dominic Cossa (Count de Nevers), performer: Gabriel Bacquier (Count de Saint-Bris), performer: Ambrosian Opera Chorus, performer: New Philharmonia Orchestra, performer: Richard Bonynge,
Decca 430549 2, 9
00:31
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Stabat Mater
performer: Tallis Scholars, performer: Peter Philips,
Gimell CDGIM994, 9
00:41
Richard Wagner
Lohengrin - Prelude to Act I
performer: Tallis Scholars performer: Peter Philips
Deutsche Grammophon 437 808 2, 1
00:51
Richard Wagner
Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg - Act III Scene 5
performer: Bernd Weikl (Sachs) performer: Orchestra and Choir of the Munich State Opera performer: Wolfgang Sawallisch
EMI CDS 555142 2, 13
Wagner and Liszt
Thu 23 May 2013
12:00
BBC Radio 3
4/5 Donald Macleod explores the relationship between Wagner and Liszt.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01shyl1
Franz Liszt stands apart amongst the influences on Wagner's life and music. Not only was he a close musical confidante whose unfailing support had helped Wagner secure fame and success at a time when he was in exile, but the two composers shared new ideas as their work changed the face of music in the mid-19th century. Liszt would also, somewhat to his chagrin, become Wagner's father-in-law after Wagner fell in love with his daughter Cosima, who at the time was married to the conductor Hans von Bülow.
Donald Macleod juxtaposes two highlights from Wagner's mature music-dramas with piano works by Liszt written around the time of Wagner's death, in Venice, in 1883. We'll also hear the work written for Cosima Wagner's birthday in 1870, the Siegfried-Idyll, in its charming original version for 13 instruments. Plus a real Wagner oddity, his youthful setting of "Gretchen Am Spinnrade", inspired by Goethe's Faust.
Music Played
Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
00:00
Franz Liszt
R.W - Venezia
Performer: Maurizio Pollini (piano)
Deutsche Grammophon 427322 2, 5
00:06
Richard Wagner
Lohengrin (end of Act I) - Durch Gottes Sieg ist jetzt dein Leben mein
performer: Gottlob Frick ( König Heinrich) performer: Jess Thomas (Lohengrin) performer: Elisabeth Grümmer (Elsa) performer: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Telramund) performer: Christa Ludwig (Ortrud) performer: Orchestra and Chorus of the Vienna Philharmonic performer: Rudolf Kempe
EMI CDS 7490178, 12
00:12
Richard Wagner
Seven Pieces from Goethe's Faust - Gretchen am Spinnrade
Performer: Mechthild Bach (soprano), Performer: Markus Hadulla (piano),
AUDITE 20030, 9
00:16
Richard Wagner
Die Walkure: Act II Scene 5 - Zauberfest bezahmt ein Schlaf
Performer: James King (Siegmund) Performer: Leonie Rysanek (Sieglinde) Performer: Theo Adam (Wotan) Performer: Birgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde) Performer: Orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival Performer: Karl Böhm
00:28
Richard Wagner
Siegfried-Idyll
Performer: Members of the Orchestra Symphonique Bienne Performer: Thomas Rösner
ATMA ACD2, 1
00:48
Franz Liszt
La Lugubre Gondola
Performer: Khatia Buniatishvili (piano)
Sony Classical 88697766042
Wagner, Strauss, Bruckner and Wolf
Fri 24 May 2013
12:00
BBC Radio 3
5/5 Donald Macleod explores Wagner's influence on Bruckner, Strauss, Mahler and Wolf.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01shyl5
Donald Macleod ends this week exploring the musical connections between Wagner and his contemporaries with excerpts from his final great music-drama, Parsifal. He examines the colossal effect it would go on to have on a younger generation of composers, including Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler and Hugo Wolf.
We also look at the famous, and boozy, meeting between Wagner and perhaps his most devoted musical admirer, the Austrian Anton Bruckner, whose Third Symphony was dedicated to Wagner.
Music Played
Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
00:00
Richard Wagner
Parsifal: Prelude to Act I
Performer:Berlin Philharmonic, Performer: Herbert von Karajan
00:09
Richard Wagner
Parsifal (Act I excerpt) - Wehvolles Erbe, dem ich verfallen
Performer: Simon Estes (Amfortas), Performer: Choir and Orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival, Performer: James Levine,
Philips 214842 2, 5
00:20
Richard Wagner
Albumblatt fur Betty Schott
Performer: Gerhard Oppitz (piano)
RCA Victor Red Seal 09026 61843 2, 2
00:26
Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 3 - III. Scherzo. Ziemlich schnell
Performer: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra Performer: Jonathan Nott
Tudor 7133, 3
00:35
Richard Wagner
Parsifal (Act III excerpt) - Good Friday Music
Performer:Hans Hotter (Gurnemanz), Performer:Jess Thomas (Parsifal), Performer:Orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival, Performer:Hans Knappertsbusch,
Philips 464 756 2, 6
00:55
Hugo Wolf
Zur Ruh, zur Ruh!
Performer: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Performer: Daniel Barenboim (piano)
Deutsche Grammophon 447515 2, 6
