Richard Wagner

Introduction to Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen / Siegfried Idyll / Kinderkatechismus

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Release date July 26, 2024

Tracklist

1
Siegfried Idyll, WWV 103
18:25
18:25
2
Kinderkatechismus
2:27
2:27
3
Of All Great Musical Compositions... (Examples 1-4)
3:34
3:34
4
The Fundamental Symbol... (Examples 5-11)
4:46
4:46
5
Returning Now to the Nature Motive... (Examples 6, 12-16)
3:22
3:22
6
A Number of Further Motives... (Examples 5, 17-21)
3:17
3:17
7
A Second, Much Smaller Family... (Examples 22-25)
2:35
2:35
8
So Much for Nature. (Examples 26-38)
7:56
7:56
9
The Cause of the Deterioration... (Examples 39-44)
3:30
3:30
10
The Other Transformation... (Examples 45-48)
3:44
3:44
11
Several Other Motives... (Examples 49-52)
2:47
2:47
12
Two Further Motives... (Examples 41, 53-61)
7:12
7:12
13
The Basic Motive Associated With the Spear... (Examples 62-68)
5:17
5:17
14
Along Another, More Complex Line... (Examples 69-72)
2:12
2:12
15
In Act Two of "Walküre"... (Examples 69, 73-75)
2:21
2:21
16
Returning Now to Act Two of "Walküre"... (Examples 76-79)
3:54
3:54
17
Love Is Another of the Central Symbols... (Examples 80-83)
3:10
3:10
18
Later in the Same Scene... (Examples 84-87)
2:23
2:23
19
Freia's Motive Has Two Independent Segments... (Examples 88-91)
2:01
2:01
20
The Label 'Flight'... (Example 92)
0:56
0:56
21
When Fasolt, in Scene Two of "Rhinegold"... (Examples 93-98)
5:23
5:23
22
A Little Later in This Interlude... (Examples 99-103)
3:01
3:01
23
The Other New Motive... (Examples 104-109)
3:33
3:33
24
There Are Several Independent Love-Motives... (Examples 110-114)
2:55
2:55
25
The Characters in Whose Lives... (Examples 115-120)
5:27
5:27
26
One Further Motive Belongs... (Example 121)
1:25
1:25
27
The Sword Motive Recurs... (Examples 122-130)
4:28
4:28
28
Ironically, This Phrase... (Examples 131-135)
2:58
2:58
29
Closely Associated With Gutrune's Motive... (Examples 136-140)
2:26
2:26
30
Here We Come to the End... (Examples 141-146)
3:43
3:43
31
Complementary to This Symbol... (Examples 147-149)
2:14
2:14
32
One Last Central Symbol... (Examples 150-157)
4:54
4:54
33
One Further Motive Connected... (Examples 158-161)
2:52
2:52
34
There Are One or Two Motives... (Examples 162-168)
3:48
3:48
35
These Motives of Alberich and Mime... (Examples 169-171)
2:07
2:07
36
Quite a Number of the Subsidiary Motives... (Examples 172-176)
2:50
2:50
37
Besides This Family of Motives... (Examples 177-180)
2:31
2:31
38
Our Final Example... (Examples 10, 181, 182)
3:57
3:57
39
In the Final Scene of Götterdämmerung... (Examples 181-183)
2:45
2:45
40
Even More Masterly... (Examples 184-188)
4:31
4:31
41
Now If We Return... (Examples 189-191)
2:47
2:47
42
This Masterly Way... (Examples 192, 193)
4:47
4:47