Reiner Conducts Wagner (CD)

From RCA’s Fritz Reiner Collection comes this disc of incredible orchestral music deriving from Richard Wagner’s most beloved operas. Highlights include Reiner’s own arrangement of orchestral selections from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, “Siegfried’s Rhine Journey” and “Funeral Music” from Götterdämmerung as well as a bonus selection from Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel with the RCA Victor Orchestra.

Wagner Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude to Act I
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
1959, Orchestra Hall, Chicago

Wagner Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude to Act III
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
1959, Orchestra Hall, Chicago

Wagner Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, “Dance of the Apprentices”
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
1959, Orchestra Hall, Chicago

Wagner Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, “Entrance of the Mastersingers”
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
1959, Orchestra Hall, Chicago

Wagner Götterdämmerung, “Siegfried’s Rhine Journey”
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
1959, Orchestra Hall, Chicago

Wagner Götterdämmerung, “Funeral Music”
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
1959, Orchestra Hall, Chicago

Wagner Lohengrin, Prelude to Act III
RCA Victor Orchestra
1950

Wagner Tannhäuser, “Festmarsch”
RCA Victor Orchestra
1950

Humperdinck Hansel and Gretel, Dream Pantomime
RCA Victor Orchestra
1950

Discs: 1
Record Label: RCA
Release Date: June 4, 2007