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...Franck's Symphony in D Minor, 3) Ravel's Bolero, 4) Wagner's Parsifal, 5) Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, 6) Brahms's Requiem, 7) Dvorak's Symphony No. 5 ("New World"). 8) Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 ("Choral"), 9) Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, 10) Tchaikovsky's Symphony...
...season 1954 shows few signs of a real Wagner boom, either in the U.S. or abroad. The favorite operas, Lohengrin, Tannhduser and Tristan are lucky to get three or four performances a month at La Scala, Paris and London. The 13-hour Ring cycle (Rheingold, Walkure, Siegfried, Gotterdammerung) is all but impossible to mount in small theaters, gets its chief performances nowadays at the Wagner shrine in Bayreuth. Like many German opera houses, the Vienna Staatsoper was bombed out, will not attempt the Ring cycle until rebuilding is completed in 1956. Covent Garden's policy: no Ring until another...
...note: Bach's St. Matthew Passion, played by a Viennese orchestra, chorus and soloists under the direction of Hermann Scherchen (Westminster, 4 LPs); all ten of Beethoven's Violin & Piano Sonatas, played by Violinist Joseph Fuchs and Pianist Artur Balsam (Decca; 5 LPs); Wagner's complete Tristan and Isolde, with Kirsten Flagstad, Ludwig Suthaus and the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler (Victor...
...chose three songs by Norway's Composer Edvard Grieg, followed by Isolde's Liebestod from Tristan and the last scene from Götterdämmerung. At the end, the international audience rose and shouted for a full five minutes while Kirsten Flagstad curtsied and smiled with tears in her eyes...
Debussy's singers have no arias-they sing as naturally as if speaking-while the orchestra sweeps along in the major role. Unlike Wagner's characters, Debussy's do not bemoan their fates; they simply submit to them. Nor is there any Wagnerian bellowing. Where Tristan shouts "Isolde! Geliebte!" at the top of his lungs, with the orchestra going full out, Pelléas whispers "Je t'aime...