“Seattle Symphony Collection This selection of some of Wagner’s finest orchestral excerpts opens with the ‘storm-swept ballad’ of Der fliegende Hollander, the opera which launched his epoch-defining later masterpieces. The entire span of Der Ring des Nibelungen is represented in this program, from the luminous rainbow bridge which leads the gods to Valhalla in Das Rheingold, the urgent drama of Die Walkure, and the atmospheric repose of the Forest Murmurs in Siegfried, to the tragic depths of Siegfried’s Funeral March. This recording has been praised for its ‘radiant sensuousness’ (Gramophone). Volumes 2 and 3 in this series are available on 8572768 and 8572769. Der fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman) Overture, Das Rheingold - Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla (arr. Zumpe), Die Walkure - Wotan’s Farewell and Magic Fire Music, Siegfried - Forest Murmurs (arr. Hutschenruyter), Gotterdammerung (Twilight of the Gods) - Dawn/Siegfried’s Rhine Journey/Siegfried’s Death/Funeral Music”

his selection of some of Wagner’s finest orchestral excerpts opens with the ‘storm-swept ballad’ of Der fliegende Holländer, the opera which launched his epoch-defining later masterpieces. The entire span of Der Ring des Nibelungen is represented in this programme, from the luminous rainbow bridge which leads the gods to Valhalla in Das Rheingold, the urgent drama of Die Walküre, and the atmospheric repose of the Forest Murmurs in Siegfried, to the tragic depths of Siegfried’s Funeral March. This recording has been praised for its ‘radiant sensuousness’. (Gramophone) Volumes 2 and 3 in this series are available on 8572768 and 8572769.