Wagner: Preludes and Overtures

Featuring

Yakov Kreizberg
Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest
Richard Wagner

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Recording & Production

Polyhymnia International, the recording facility, was founded in 1998 as a management buy-out from the former Philips Classics Recording Center.

Compositional Technique

In the overture for his opera Tannhäuser, Wagner used harmony and orchestration to contrast the purity of Elisabeth's love with the sensuality of Venus' love.

Composer Biography

Richard Wagner, the composer, was greatly influenced by Beethoven's music, especially his Symphony No. 9, which he first heard at age 17.

Performer Biography

The Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra Amsterdam is the largest orchestral organization in the Netherlands, formed in 1986 from a merger of three orchestras.

Composition History

Wagner composed his Symphony in C within six weeks in 1832, and it was performed in Prague that same year.

Performer Biography

Yakov Kreizberg, the conductor, studied with notable figures like Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, and Erich Leinsdorf at Tanglewood.

Recording & Production

Polyhymnia International designs and builds most of its recording electronics in-house, including microphone preamplifiers and internal microphone electronics, to emphasize analog signal quality.