BBC Proms 2019 Prom 68 Wagner Night (320 kbps .mp3)

Live at BBC Proms: Marc Albrecht conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, with soloists Christine Goerke and Stephen Gould, in music by Wagner, Franck and Weber.

01. Carl Maria von Weber - Der Freischütz, Overture
01a. General introduction to BBC Proms 2019 Prom 68 Wagner Night
02. Wagner -  Siegfried  - Forest Murmurs
02a. Introduction to Wagner’s  Siegfried - Forest Murmurs
03. César Franck - Le chasseur maudit
03a. Introduction to Franck’s Le chasseur maudit
04. Wagner - Götterdämmerung excerpts – Dawn and Siegfried’s Rhine Journey; Duet 'Zu neuen Taten, teurer Helde'; Siegfried's Death and Funeral March; Brünnhilde's Immolation Scene
04a. Introduction to the second part of BBC Proms 2019 Prom 68 Wagner Night

Christine Goerke (soprano)
Stephen Gould (tenor)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Marc Albrecht (conductor)

Composer-themed evenings were a distinctive and popular feature of Henry Wood’s early Proms seasons: if it was Monday, it was Wagner Night.

We revive this tradition with a concert whose first half explores the enchanted forest (both beguiling and darkly supernatural) – a key symbol of the German Romantic movement.

The second half presents pivotal scenes from Götterdämmerung, the climax of Wagner’s four-opera magnum opus The Ring of the Nibelung – including Siegfried’s Death and Funeral Music and the vocal tour de force of Brünnhilde’s Immolation Scene.

05. BBC Proms 2019 Prom 68 Proms Plus Interval
In the third of our series on Henry Wood, Hannah French explores the Proms founder-conductor’s relationship with Wagner’s music.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Ian Skelly
Broadcast: 9 September 2019